Sar1p N-terminal helix initiates membrane curvature and completes the fission of a COPII vesicle.

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Secretory proteins traffic from the ER to the Golgi via COPII-coated transport vesicles. The five core COPII proteins (Sar1p, Sec23/24p, and Sec13/31p) act in concert to capture cargo proteins and sculpt the ER membrane into vesicles of defined geometry. The molecular details of how the coat proteins deform the lipid bilayer into vesicles are not known. Here we show that the small GTPase Sar1p directly initiates...

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