GOLGI APPARATUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Golgi apparatus mean? 

• GOLGI APPARATUS (noun)
  The noun GOLGI APPARATUS has 1 sense:

1. a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions)

  Familiarity information: GOLGI APPARATUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOLGI APPARATUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

dictyosome; Golgi apparatus; Golgi body; Golgi complex

Hypernyms ("Golgi apparatus" is a kind of...):

cyst; vesicle (a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid))

Holonyms ("Golgi apparatus" is a part of...):

cytol; cytoplasm (the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism)

 Context examples 

KRN 5500 inhibits protein synthesis by interfering with endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus functions.

(KRN5500, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein may play a role in the functioning of the Golgi apparatus.

(Golgi-Associated Plant Pathogenesis-Related Protein 1, NCI Thesaurus)

A network of membrane components where vesicles from the endoplasmic reticulum fuse with the Golgi apparatus.

(Cis-Golgi Network, NCI Thesaurus)

Cicloxolone has been shown to impair Golgi apparatus functions related to transport of glycoproteins of vesicular stomatitis virus.

(Cicloxolone, NCI Thesaurus)

In the Golgi apparatus, APPBP2 is associated with transport or processing of amyloid precursor protein (APP).

(Amyloid Beta Precursor Protein-Binding Protein 2, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is a type II transmembrane protein located in the Golgi that mediates the transport of proteins through the Golgi apparatus

(Golgi Phosphoprotein 2, NCI Thesaurus)

One of the flattened membrane-bound disks of the Golgi apparatus.

(Cisterna of the Golgi Apparatus, NCI Thesaurus)

The movement of proteins takes place by transfer vesicles that bud off from the rough endoplasmic reticulum or golgi apparatus and fuse with the golgi, lysosomes or cell membrane.

(Golgi Apparatus, NCI Thesaurus)

Alternate splicing of this gene results in many isoforms that localize to the centrosome and the Golgi apparatus, and interact with numerous signaling proteins from multiple signal transduction pathways.

(A Kinase Anchor Protein 9, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)

Next, the mannose residue from the middle branch of the Man9GlcNAc2 oligosaccharide is removed by ER -mannosidase I, then correctly folded glycoproteins bearing Man8GlcNAc2 isomer B (Man8B form) are transported out of the ER to the Golgi apparatus.

(Endoplasmic Reticulum Degradation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)