GO cellular component ontology term - GO:0005905 - clathrin-coated pit
Term summary
- ID
- GO:0005905
- Name
- clathrin-coated pit
- Ontology or CV name
- GO cellular component
- Definition
- A part of the endomembrane system in the form of an invagination of a membrane upon which a clathrin coat forms, and that can be converted by vesicle budding into a clathrin-coated vesicle. Coated pits form on the plasma membrane, where they are involved in receptor-mediated selective transport of many proteins and other macromolecules across the cell membrane, in the trans-Golgi network, and on some endosomes.
