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Lipid switches and traffic control

Transport vesicles that bud from one cell membrane must change identity before fusing with another. During the process of clathrin-mediated endocytosis, various lipid phosphates mediate this identity change. See Letter p.233

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Figure 1: Membrane signatures.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion1 were published online on 3 July 2013.

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Schmid, S., Mettlen, M. Lipid switches and traffic control. Nature 499, 161–162 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12408

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