“…First, clathrin immunoreactivity (detected by monoclonal antibody X22) is present in proximity of T tubules as previously reported (Kaufman et al, 1990) and further confirmed by this study. This clathrin heavy chain is likely to correspond to the skeletal muscle specific clathrin recently described by several groups (Gong et al, 1996;Kedra et al, 1996;Lindsay et al, 1996;Sirotkin et al, 1996). Second, the glut4 transporter, which undergoes regulated surface exposure in response to insulin (Wang et al, 1996) and is internalized at least in part via clathrin coated vesicles (Garippa et al, 1996;Robinson et al, 1996), is concentrated along the T system and surrounding vesicles (Slot et al, 1991;Munoz et al, 1995a,b).…”