A Nobel Prize for membrane traffic: vesicles find their journey's end. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Cell biologists everywhere rejoiced when this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to James Rothman, Randy Schekman, and Thomas Südhof for their contributions to uncovering the mechanisms governing vesicular transport. In this article, we highlight their achievements and also pay tribute to the pioneering scientists before them who set the stage for their remarkable discoveries.

publication date

  • November 8, 2013

Research

keywords

  • Cell Membrane
  • Nobel Prize
  • Transport Vesicles

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC3840937

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 84890246880

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1083/jcb.201310134

PubMed ID

  • 24215073

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 203

issue

  • 4