trans-Golgi network

id: GO:0005802
name: trans-Golgi network
namespace: cellular_component
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The network of interconnected tubular and cisternal structures located at the side of the Golgi apparatus distal to the endoplasmic reticulum, from which secretory vesicles emerge. The trans-Golgi network is important in the later stages of protein secretion where it is thought to play a key role in the sorting and targeting of secreted proteins to the correct destination.

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