clathrin

German: Clathrin
Japanese: クラスリン

Biochemistry. The main structural coat protein of coated vesicles which play a key role in the intracellular transport between membranous organelles (endocytosis). The clathrin molecule is composed of three light chains and three heavy chains that form a three-limped structure called triskelion.

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