Coated pits

... a surface area of 3,400 μm2. Assume that the endocytic clathrin-coated pits account for 2% of this area and that the surface area of a single coated pit is the same ...

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... we didnt cover, i guessed so this may be wrong == Mutant cells lacking coated pits would most likely be...? - deficient in receptor mediated endocytosis (my answer) - unable ...

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... worthy of a lecture in itself. This figure shows this process as "coated pit endocytosis". The coated pit is a specialized region of the membrane ... and then loses its clathrin coat. It then joins with other coated pits to form a receptosome. taken from http://cellbio.utmb.edu/cellbio/recend.htm

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... the cell membrane called a receptor. Normally the receptor is clathrin coated pits.these receptors are absent in normal phagocytosis. Phagocytosis ("cell eating"): results ...

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