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How to don a coat

Cargo-carrying vesicles can assemble from hundreds of locations on the cell membrane, but how these sites are selected has been unclear. A small family of membrane-sculpting proteins may select the perfect location.

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Figure 1: Clathrin-coat assembly.

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Traub, L., Wendland, B. How to don a coat. Nature 465, 556–557 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/465556a

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