Cells use import machinery to export their goods as well
Friday, July 3, 2009 - 12:35
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the bustling economy of the cell, little bubbles called vesicles serve as container ships, ferrying cargo to and from the port - the cell membrane. Some of these vesicles, called post-Golgi vesicles, export cargo made by the cell`s protein factory.
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