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What organelle is a stack of rough endoplasmic reticulum membranes?
The Golgi apparatus, also called Golgi complex or Golgi body, is a membrane-bound organelle found in eukaryotic cells (cells with clearly defined nuclei) that is made up of a series of flattened stacked pouches called cisternae. It is located in the cytoplasm next to the endoplasmic reticulum and near the cell nucleus.
What membrane is the ER connected to?
The endoplasmic reticulum is found in most eukaryotic cells and forms an interconnected network of flattened, membrane-enclosed sacs known as cisternae (in the RER), and tubular structures in the SER. The membranes of the ER are continuous with the outer nuclear membrane.
Is the endoplasmic reticulum a stack of membranes?
The endoplasmic reticulum is a stack of membranes that packages proteins into sacs called vesicles.
Is ER single or double membrane?
Single membrane-bound organelles: Vacuole, Lysosome, Golgi Apparatus, Endoplasmic Reticulum are single membrane-bound organelles present only in a eukaryotic cell.
How are smooth ER and rough ER similar?
Both rough ER and smooth ER have the same types of membranes but they have different shapes. Rough ER looks like sheets or disks of bumpy membranes while smooth ER looks more like tubes. Rough ER is called rough because it has ribosomes attached to its surface. Smooth ER (SER) acts as a storage organelle.
What is stack of membranes that package chemicals?
Golgi apparatus – a stack of membranes that collects, modifies, and packages chemical compounds.
What are the types of ER based on the morphology?
The ER can be classified in two functionally distinct forms: smooth endoplasmic reticulum (SER) and rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER). The morphological distinction between the two is the presence of protein-synthesizing particles, called ribosomes, attached to the outer surface of the RER.
Do ER have double membranes?
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a large membrane-bound compartment spread throughout the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells. It surrounds the nucleus as a double membrane bilayer and acts as a barrier to selectively control transport of molecules into and out of the nucleus (Fig.
How is the ER transported to the cell surface?
Thus, the pathway from the ER to the cell surface involves many sorting steps, which continually select membrane and soluble lumenal proteins for packaging and transport—in vesicles or organellefragments that bud from the ER and Golgi apparatus. In this sectionwe focus mainly on the Golgi apparatus(also called the Golgi complex).
How are cargo molecules transported in the ER?
The recruitment of cargo molecules into ER transport vesicles. By binding to the COPII coat, membrane and cargo proteins become concentrated in the transport vesicles as they leave the ER. Membrane proteins are packaged into budding transport vesicles (more…)
How are proteins transported from the cytosol to the ER?
As discussed in Chapter 12, newly synthesized proteins enter the biosynthetic- secretory pathway in the ER by crossing the ER membrane from the cytosol.
How are proteins transported from the ER to the Golgi apparatus?
During their subsequent transport, from the ER to the Golgi apparatus and from the Golgi apparatus to the cell surface and elsewhere, these proteins pass through a series of compartments, where they are successively modified.