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Vesicle meaning
A membrane-bound compartment found in a cell. | A small bladder-like cell or cavity, as: | A small sac filled with juice, one of many constituting the pulp of a fruit such as an orange, lemon, or grapefruit.
Example sentences (20)
Vesicle docking Surface markers called SNAREs identify the vesicle's cargo, and complementary SNAREs on the target membrane act to cause fusion of the vesicle and target membrane.
In this way the vesicle coat clusters selected membrane cargo proteins into nascent vesicle buds.
Vesicle coat The vesicle coat serves to sculpt the curvature of a donor membrane, and to select specific proteins as cargo.
This is EDP2939, which is the first bacterial type extracellular vesicle or EV product candidate.
We will focus resources on the next generation extracellular vesicle (EV) platform and on EDP2939, our first EV candidate, currently in a Phase 1/2 study in psoriasis.
Syndesi’s most advanced program, renamed ABBV-552, targets synaptic vesicle protein 2A (SV2A).
The team also observed strange vesicle-like particles attached to infected tissue, although it's not clear whether those are being produced by the fungus or the host ant.
After entering the host cell, the viral genome is replicated in the rough endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and in the so-called vesicle packets.
Again, the plasticity can alter the number of vesicles or their replenishment rate or the relationship between calcium and vesicle release.
Alternatively, drugs can prevent neurotransmitter storage in synaptic vesicles by causing the synaptic vesicle membranes to leak.
Alternatively, the receptor may undergo lysozomal degradation, or remain internalised, where it is thought to participate in the initiation of signalling events, the nature of which depending on the internalised vesicle's subcellular localisation.
Capturing cargo molecules The assembly of vesicles requires numerous coats to surround and bind to the proteins being transported; these bind to the coat vesicle.
During mating, each individual places a spermatophore onto the neck of its partner after rupture of the seminal vesicle.
During this process, the bacterium is enveloped by the macrophage and stored temporarily in a membrane-bound vesicle called a phagosome.
Dynamins polymerize around the neck of an incoming vesicle, and their phosphorylation by c-SRC provides the energy necessary for the conformational change allowing the final "pinching off" from the membrane.
Each membrane a vesicle travels to contains a marker on its cytosolic surface.
Following amphetamine uptake at VMAT2, the synaptic vesicle releases dopamine molecules into the cytosol in exchange.
For instance, in endocytosis (more specifically, macropinocytosis ), a portion of the cell’s plasma membrane pinches off to form a vesicle that will eventually fuse with an organelle within the cell.
For this to occur water must be displaced from the surface of the vesicle membrane.
In this process, molecules bound to the acrosomal vesicle membrane, such as bindin, are exposed on the surface of the sperm.