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Icon for www.nature.comNature · Dec 5, 2024

How Do Proteins Move Through the Golgi Apparatus?

The Golgi apparatus transports and modifies proteins in eukaryotic cells. How have scientists studied dynamic protein movements through the Golgi? One of the principal observations by Rothman's ...
Icon for www.nature.comNature · Aug 27, 2020

The Golgi apparatus modifies and sorts proteins for transport throughout the cell.

The Golgi apparatus transports and modifies proteins in eukaryotic cells. How have scientists studied dynamic protein movements through the Golgi?
National Geographic · 5d

What is stage 0 cancer? Here’s what you should know about this unusual diagnosis.

You’ve probably heard of the four stages of cancer—but there’s another even earlier stage that experts say can make a huge difference in treating the disease.
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New research shows how Golgi stress affects T-cells' tumor-fighting ability

In this project, Oberholtzer found that this sulfhydration process, in modifying a protein called Prdx4 within the Golgi apparatus, confers protection in an oxidative setting. "When you have the ...
Icon for www.the-scientist.comThe Scientist · Dec 10, 2022

How Intracellular Bacteria Hijack Your Cells

It was the early 2000s, and Mukherjee was working in Dennis Shields’s lab at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, studying how cells organize the internal transport of proteins and other cargo. She was particularly interested in the Golgi apparatus ...
Medical Xpress on MSN.com · Mar 11, 2025

Controlling cell acidity could be key to autoimmune disease treatment

Another of STING's main functions is regulating the acidity within the Golgi apparatus, a structure within cells that processes, packages, and transports proteins and lipids in the body.