A Tour of a Eukaryotic cell

The Endomembrane System: Tracing the path of Protein production

Proteins are critical working molecules in living things, so the first part of our cell tour will be spent tracing the way a cell puts together a protein for export outside itself.

Sketch:

Nucleus

nuclear envelope:

nuclear pores:

chromatin:

Ribosomes:

Free ribosomes

Bound ribosomes

Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum (Rough ER or RER)

Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum:

Transport vesicles:

The Golgi Apparatus:

Fate of proteins once through the Golgi Apparatus

1. Transport to other parts of the cell:

2. Exportation:

Exocytosis:

3. Lysosomes:

Phagocytosis: