Type: | Family | Name: | COPII coat assembly protein, Sec16 |
Description: | Transport vesicles budding from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) are coated with the COPII proteins []. Sec16 is involved in the initiation of assembly of the COPII coat and the selection of cargo molecules [, , , , ]. It is also involved in autophagy []. Two mammalian Sec16 homologues have been described and they seem to have nonredundant functions in ER export and transitional ER organisation []. | Short Name: | Sec16 |