Who discovered vesicular transport?

The field of intracellular traffic is celebrating the awarding of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to three of its most distinguished scientists, James Rothman, Randy Schekman and Thomas Südhof, for their discoveries on the molecular mechanisms of vesicular transport.

What is the vesicular transport model?

The vesicle transport model proposes that each Golgi membrane cisterna is a permanent structure that receives COPI-dependent vesicles carrying anterograde cargo from the adjacent cisterna on the cis side and then packages that cargo into new vesicles that deliver the cargo to the adjacent cisterna on the trans side.

What is anterograde vesicular transport?

Anterograde transport, as indicated by the open arrows, refers to the pathway that newly synthesized pro- teins take from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) through the Colgi complex to the plasma membrane. Retrograde trans- port, indicated by the black arrows, refers to transport in the reverse direction.

What are some examples of vesicular transport?

Any process in which a cell forms vesicles from its plasma membrane and takes in large particles, molecules, or droplets of extracellular fluid; for example, phagocytosis pinocytosis and receptor-mediated endocytosis.

What are vesicular transporters What is their role?

Vesicular neurotransmitter transporters are responsible for the accumulation of neurotransmitters in synaptic vesicles, and, hence, they are an essential component of chemical transmission (FIGURE 1). Vacuolar-type H+-ATPase (V-ATPase) pumps H+ into secretory vesicles.

What are the two models of Golgi apparatus?

Two networks, the cis Golgi network and the trans Golgi network, which are made up of the outermost cisternae at the cis and trans faces, are responsible for the essential task of sorting proteins and lipids that are received (at the cis face) or released (at the trans face) by the organelle.

What is anterograde transport?

Anterograde (also called “orthograde”) transport is movement of molecules/organelles outward, from the cell body (also called soma) to the synapse or cell membrane. The anterograde movement of individual cargoes (in transport vesicles) of both fast and slow components along the microtubule is mediated by kinesins.

What is anterograde transport Golgi?

Membrane traffic between the ER and Golgi is now recognized as a carefully regulated process controlled by distinct anterograde (to the Golgi) and retrograde (to the ER) pathways. Conditions that prevent coatomer binding (i.e., BFA) inhibit anterograde transport and enhance retrograde transport.