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protein folding.
- It also is highly involved in actually transporting those molecules around.
- Attached to the membrane of the nucleus, or nuclear membrane.
– Rough ER which has ribosomes attached to it
- Specifically tends to be involved with protein producing and transporting, because
remember that ribosomes make protein.
- The ribosomes could be attached to the Rough ER.
- The Rough ER highway would provide a vesicle to send us to the Golgi apparatus where
the sorting can take place and if we’re tagged for being secreted, we’re sent off thru a
vesicle from the Golgi to the membrane.
– Smooth ER has many additional roles including detoxification, which is one reason why
your liver cells tend to have a lot of smooth ER.
- Additional role of smooth ER is that it can make some types of lipids.
• Golgi apparatus is the ultimate packaging center.
- It can receive items from the transport vesicles that pinched off of the ER.
- It has enzymes that can modify molecules it may receive and it sorts the materials it
- receives as well.
- It can determine where to send those molecules, including some that may eventually be
sent to the membrane so they can be secreted, which means, items that can sent out of the
cell.
• Mitochondria (mitochondrion) make ATP energy in a process called cellular respiration.
- It runs on glucose, which is a sugar, and needs the presence of oxygen to efficiently make
ATP energy.
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