4. Endomembrane System
Endoplasmic Reticulum
Function:
- manufactures membranes & performs
many bio-synthesis functions
Structure:
- membrane connected to nuclear
envelope & extends throughout cell
- accounts for 50% membranes in
eukaryotic cell
-rough ER = bound ribosomes
-smooth ER = no ribosomes
6. Endomembrane System
Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum
Function:
-Produce proteins for export out of
cell
-protein secreting cells
-packaged into transport
vesicles for export
12. Endomembrane System
Golgi Apparatus
● The Golgi apparatus alongside the ER by
modifying products of the ER
o –Products travel in transport vesicles
from the ER to the Golgi apparatus
o –One side of the Golgi apparatus functions
as a receiving dock for the product and
the other as a shipping dock
–Products are modified as they go from one
side of the Golgi apparatus to the other.
–After going through the Golgi, the
proteins (or other stuff) is shipped out in
a new set of vesicles.
13. Endomembrane System
“Receiving” side of
Golgi apparatus
Transport vesicle
from ER
New vesicle
forming
“Shipping” side
of Golgi apparatus
Transport
vesicle from
the Golgi
16. Endomembrane System
-One of the several functions of
lysosomes is to remove or recycle
damaged parts of a cell
–The damaged organelle is first enclosed
in a membrane vesicle
–Then a lysosome fuses with the vesicle,
dismantling its contents and breaking down
the damaged organelle
Lysosomes
18. Endomembrane System
Peroxisome
-Other digestive enzyme sacs
-in both animals & plants
-breakdown fatty acids to sugars
-easier to transport & use as energy
source
-detoxify cell
-detoxifies alcohol & other poisons
-produce peroxide (H2O2)
-must breakdown H2O2 → H2O
19. Endomembrane System
Vacuoles and Vesicles
Function:
-little “transfer ships”
-Food vacuoles
-phagocytosis, fuse with
lysosomes
-Contractile vacuoles
-in freshwater protists, pump
excess H2O out of cell
-Central vacuoles
-in many mature plant cells