TY - CHAP AU - Masayuki Murata AU - Fumi Kano ED - Roberto Weigert Y1 - 2012-04-11 PY - 2012 T1 - Semi-Intact Cell Systems - Application to the Analysis of Membrane Trafficking Between the Endoplasmic Reticulum and the Golgi Apparatus and of Cell Cycle-Dependent Changes in the Morphology of These Organelles N2 - Membrane traffic is a broad field that studies the complex exchange of membranes that occurs inside the cell. Protein, lipids and other molecules traffic among intracellular organelles, and are delivered to, or transported from the cell surface by virtue of membranous carriers generally referred as "transport intermediates". These carriers have different shapes and sizes, and their biogenesis, modality of transport, and delivery to the final destination are regulated by a multitude of very complex molecular machineries. A concept that has clearly emerged in the last decade is that each membrane pathway does not represent a close system, but is fully integrated with all the other trafficking pathways. The aim of this book is to provide a general overview of the extent of this crosstalk. BT - Crosstalk and Integration of Membrane Trafficking Pathways SP - Ch. 1 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/31440 DO - 10.5772/31440 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-25 ER -