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Clathrin

"Clathrin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

The main structural coat protein of COATED VESICLES which play a key role in the intracellular transport between membranous organelles. Each molecule of clathrin consists of three light chains (CLATHRIN LIGHT CHAINS) and three heavy chains (CLATHRIN HEAVY CHAINS) that form a structure called a triskelion. Clathrin also interacts with cytoskeletal proteins.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Clathrin" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Clathrin" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 161 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 11 publications in 2009
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