English edit

Etymology edit

coat +‎ -o- +‎ -mer. Coined in a 1991 paper in Nature by Waters, Serafini & Rothman. [1]

Noun edit

coatomer (plural coatomers)

  1. (biochemistry) A soluble seven-protein complex which is a precursor of coat protein I (COPI), which plays a key role in Golgi apparatus vesicle formation