AP-type membrane coat adaptor complex

id: GO:0030119
name: AP-type membrane coat adaptor complex
namespace: cellular_component
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: Any of several heterotetrameric complexes that link clathrin (or another coat-forming molecule, as hypothesized for AP-3 and AP-4) to a membrane surface; they are found on coated pits and coated vesicles, and mediate sorting of cargo proteins into vesicles. Each AP complex contains two large (a beta and one of either an alpha, gamma, delta, or epsilon) subunits (110-130 kDa), a medium (mu) subunit (approximately 50 kDa), and a small (sigma) subunit (15-20 kDa).

Child Functions

idname
GO:0030123AP-3 adaptor complex
GO:0030124AP-4 adaptor complex
GO:0030131clathrin adaptor complex

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0043234protein complex
GO:0044425membrane part
GO:0044444cytoplasmic part