GOLGI APPARATUS

/ GOLGI BODY

GOLGI BODY CONSISTS OF A STACK OF FLATTENED,

MEMBRANE-BOUND SACS CALLED CISTERNAE,
TOGETHER WITH A SYSTEM OF ASSOCIATED VESICLES
CALLED GOLGI VESICLES.
• Golgi body is present in all cukaryotic cells.
• The stack forms extensive network in animal cells (5-6 cisternae) whereas in
plant cells, it is more defined, that is, 20 or more and is called dictyosome.
• Some animal cells have a single Golgi body near the nucleus.
• In other animal cells and plant cells, there are many Golgi bodies dispersed
throughout the cell.
• Active secretory cells such as pancreatic cells, nerve cells and root apex cells
that secrete large amounts of glycoprotein have many Golgi bodies.
 At this end of the stack
new cisternac are constantly being
formed by the transport vesicles
from the ER.
The outer' or forming surface is
convex and referred to as 'cis'.
Called as Cis face
This face is located nearest to the
surface

This end of the stack is concave inner' or maturing face

and is called as 'trans face.
This face is nearest to the plasma
membrane, packages molecules in
secretory vesicles and transports
them out of the Golgi body
 FUNCTION OF GOLGI APPARATEUS
• Golgi body receives, stores, concentrates, transports and chemically modifies as well as
sorts the seeretory proteins arriving from rough ER.

• The proteins recerved from the ER are added with carbohydrates to become
glycoproteins.
• In the Golgi body, these glycoproteins are modified and their carbohydrate components
become markers that route the proteins to specific organelles.
• The products of ER are modified during their transit from the cis face to the trans face
of the Golgi body.
• The molecules move from cisternae to cisternae within the Golgi body through
transport vesicles
• The secretory vesicles produced by the Golgi body are important in
adding surface area to the cell membrane.
• When the vesicles releases its products for export, the membranes of the
ruptured vesicles fuse with the plasma membrane to become part of the
plasma membrane.
• Formation of lysosomes.
• Formation of peroxisomes