Sunday, September 16, 2012

Golgi Complex

I am the all-mighty Golgi Complex! I am made up of stacks of flattened membrane sacs and my main purpose is to modify proteins, package secreted proteins and sort other proteins to vacuoles and other organelles. As you can see, i enjoy protein. I have 3 areas that are generally referred to as the cis face, the trans face and the medial region. Usually, the cis face is located nearest to the nucleus and receives materials from the transport vesicles from the ER. The trans face, closest to the plasma membrane, packages molecules in vesicles and transports them out of the Golgi.






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