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Nature Cell Biology 8, 310 (1 April 2006) | doi:10.1038/ncb0406-310

Eisosomes: endocytic portals

Sowmya Swaminathan

Cells internalize plasma membrane receptors, soluble nutrients, lipids and other cargo by endocytosis. Reporting in the February 23 issue of Nature (Nature 439, 998; 2006), Peter Walter and colleagues describe structures called 'eisosomes', which mark hotspots of endocytosis at the yeast plasma membrane.