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Polarized transport in the Golgi apparatus

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Proteins can be transported in either direction across a cellular organelle called the Golgi apparatus. It emerges that CDC42, a molecule that confers cell polarity, acts to control the directionality of transport in the Golgi. See Letter p.529

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Figure 1: Bidirectional transport.

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Nakano, A. Polarized transport in the Golgi apparatus. Nature 521, 427–428 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14521

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