Category:GO:0005802 ! trans-Golgi network

name: trans-Golgi network
namespace: cellular_component
def: "The network of interconnected tubular and cisternal structures located within the Golgi apparatus on the side 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." [GOC:vw, ISBN:0815316194]
comment: There are different opinions about whether the TGN should be considered part of the Golgi apparatus or not. We follow Alberts et al, 1994 (ISBN:0815316194), who consider it to be a part.
synonym: "Golgi trans face" RELATED []
synonym: "Golgi trans-face" RELATED []
synonym: "late Golgi" RELATED [GOC:mah]
synonym: "maturing face" RELATED []
synonym: "TGN" EXACT []
synonym: "trans face" BROAD [NIF_Subcellular:sao1039242387]
synonym: "trans Golgi network" EXACT []
xref: NIF_Subcellular:sao9456487
is_a: GO:0098791 ! Golgi apparatus subcompartment

AmiGO <GOterm>GO:0005802</GOterm>
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