vesicle docking

id: GO:0048278
name: vesicle docking
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The initial attachment of a transport vesicle membrane to the target membrane, mediated by proteins protruding from the membrane of the vesicle and the target membrane. Docking requires only that the two membranes come close enough for these proteins to interact and adhere.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0006904vesicle docking involved in exocytosis
GO:0048211Golgi vesicle docking

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0022406membrane docking