Cell Component
transport vesicle
trans·port ves·i·cle [ trans-pawrt, -pohrt ves-i-kuhl ]
Subclass of:
Cytoplasmic Vesicles
Definitions related to transport vesicles:
  • A vesicle that can move between organelles to deliver molecules to target locations.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Any of the vesicles of the constitutive secretory pathway, which carry cargo from the endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi, between Golgi cisternae, from the Golgi to the ER (retrograde transport) or to destinations within or outside the cell.
    Gene Ontology Dictionary
    Gene Ontology Consortium, 2021
  • Vesicles that are involved in shuttling cargo from the interior of the cell to the cell surface, from the cell surface to the interior, across the cell or around the cell to various locations.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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