"BFA bodies": a subcompartment of the endoplasmic reticulum.
Abstract
A specialized region of the endoplasmic reticulum--the BFA body--is defined by the site of accumulation of coatomer when nonclathrin coat protein (COP)-coated vesicle assembly is prevented by the drug brefeldin A (BFA). BFA bodies are formed by part smooth, part rough domains of endoplasmic reticulum that are cis to the classical transitional endoplasmic reticulum and to BFA-induced Golgi remnants.
- Publication:
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
- Pub Date:
- December 1993
- DOI:
- 10.1073/pnas.90.23.11089
- Bibcode:
- 1993PNAS...9011089O