Term Name: vesicle-mediated transport
Synonyms: nonselective vesicle transport, protein sorting along secretory pathway, vesicle trafficking, vesicle transport, vesicular transport
Definition: A cellular transport process in which transported substances are moved in membrane-bounded vesicles; transported substances are enclosed in the vesicle lumen or located in the vesicle membrane. The process begins with a step that directs a substance to the forming vesicle, and includes vesicle budding and coating. Vesicles are then targeted to, and fuse with, an acceptor membrane.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0016192]    QuickGO    AmiGO

Relationships
has parts: cargo adaptor activity cargo receptor activity SNARE complex disassembly vesicle budding from membrane vesicle cargo loading vesicle docking vesicle fusion vesicle targeting vesicle uncoating
is a type of: cellular process transport
has subtype: contractile vacuole dissociation from plasma membrane endocytosis endosomal transport endosome to lysosome transport exocytosis Golgi vesicle transport late endosome to vacuole transport mitochondrion-derived vesicle mediated transport multivesicular body sorting pathway neurotransmitter receptor transport postsynaptic membrane to endosome plasma membrane to endosome transport plastid to vacuole vesicle-mediated transport retrograde transport, plasma membrane to Golgi transcytosis vesicle-mediated cholesterol transport vesicle-mediated intercellular transport vesicle-mediated transport in synapse vesicle-mediated transport involved in floral organ abscission vesicle-mediated transport to the plasma membrane
regulated by: regulation of vesicle-mediated transport