Medical Term:
adaptin
Pronunciation: ă-dap′tin
Definition: A multisubunit complex of proteins that has a binding site for the cytoplasmic aspect of cargo receptor molecules as well as a binding site for clathrin molecules, thus facilitating the formation of a clathrin coat around a vesicle; currently, four different types of adaptins are known, each capable of binding with the cytoplasmic aspect of the four different types of cargo receptors.
[adapt + -in]
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