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 | | This is, obviously, an important question, because without specificity all the compartments could just fuse into one large compartment with a resulting loss of the identity of the cell. |
 | | Vesicle Budding While there are other potential means of transport (such as cisternal progression in the Golgi) the main mode of transport of proteins in eukaryotic cells is undoubtedly vesicular transport. |
 | | Vesicular transport likely involves concentration of cargo proteins, curving of the membrane, budding off of the vesicle, finding its way specifically to the next target, docking, fusing, and releasing its contents into the compartment. |
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