Clathrin is a protein familiar for its ability to import material into cells. But it also seems to mediate another crucial process — helping newly made proteins to pick the right destination on the cell surface.
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Roth, M. Porter and sorter. Nature 452, 706–707 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/452706a
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