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transport vesicle

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Any of the vesicles of the constitutive secretory pathway, which carry cargo from the endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi, between Golgi cisternae, from the Golgi to the ER (retrograde transport) or to destinations within or outside the cell. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22160157 ]

Term info

Label

transport vesicle

Synonyms
  • constitutive secretory pathway transport vesicle
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Note that the term 'secretory vesicle' is sometimes used in this sense, but can also mean 'secretory granule ; GO:0030141'.

has narrow synonym

Golgi-vacuole transport vesicle, Golgi to vacuole transport vesicle

has obo namespace

cellular_component

has related synonym

secretory vesicle

id

GO:0030133