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Launch ↗ Protein Modification Visualizer
Proteins made at the endoplasmic reticulum are rarely finished when they are built. They travel by vesicle to the Golgi apparatus, where added sugars, phosphate groups and cuts to the chain give each protein its final shape and its address in the cell. Here you can move a protein along that route and carry out each modification yourself.
Launch InteractiveTopics covered
- Endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi
- Vesicle transport
- Glycosylation
- Protein phosphorylation
- Protein cleavage
- Protein trafficking
- Lysosome and membrane targeting
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