The Golgi Apparatus
After leaving the endoplasmic reticulum, transport vesicles arrive at the Golgi apparatus, which can be thought of as a factory. The factory is responsible for receiving, shipping, and some manufacturing of the products of the ER (Reece et al., 2011). One of the major functions of the Golgi apparatus is the packaging of substances for the secretion from the cell. The Golgi apparatus must modify and store the products of the ER, such as proteins, so that they can be transported to a new destination within the cell. Morphologically, the Golgi apparatus consists of an irregular network of rod-like, globular, and granular bodies (The new book of popular science, 2000). The Golgi apparatus consists of flattened membranous sacs called cisternae. A single stack of cisternae forms a Golgi body. These Golgi bodies make up the Golgi apparatus. In order for a substance to be secreted it must pinch off to form its own vesicle of transportation after moving through the process of packaging by the Golgi apparatus. There are two stacks that separates the Golgi apparatus’s internal space from the cytosol. The two sides of the stack are the cis face and trans face. The products of the ER, such as proteins, enter at the cis face, modify, and exit from the trans face (Cooper, 2000; Reece et al., 2011). The Golgi apparatus dispatches its products by budding off vesicles from the trans face, and targeting them to various parts of the cell.
After leaving the endoplasmic reticulum, transport vesicles arrive at the Golgi apparatus, which can be thought of as a factory. The factory is responsible for receiving, shipping, and some manufacturing of the products of the ER (Reece et al., 2011). One of the major functions of the Golgi apparatus is the packaging of substances for the secretion from the cell. The Golgi apparatus must modify and store the products of the ER, such as proteins, so that they can be transported to a new destination within the cell. Morphologically, the Golgi apparatus consists of an irregular network of rod-like, globular, and granular bodies (The new book of popular science, 2000). The Golgi apparatus consists of flattened membranous sacs called cisternae. A single stack of cisternae forms a Golgi body. These Golgi bodies make up the Golgi apparatus. In order for a substance to be secreted it must pinch off to form its own vesicle of transportation after moving through the process of packaging by the Golgi apparatus. There are two stacks that separates the Golgi apparatus’s internal space from the cytosol. The two sides of the stack are the cis face and trans face. The products of the ER, such as proteins, enter at the cis face, modify, and exit from the trans face (Cooper, 2000; Reece et al., 2011). The Golgi apparatus dispatches its products by budding off vesicles from the trans face, and targeting them to various parts of the cell.