COATS AND VESICLE BUDDING

Transport vesicles need coat proteins in order to form. The coat prote ins are recruited from the cytosol onto a particular membrane, where t hey drive vesicle budding and select the vesicle cargo. So far three t ypes of coated transport vesicles have been purified anti characterize d and candidates for components of other types of coats have been iden tified. This review gives a brief overview of what is known about the various coats and their role in transport vesicle formation.