Berkeley body
Berkeley bodies are
The organelle consists of two enclosed membranes forming an enclosed lumen, which contains cytoplasm. It is formed by vesicles budding off the Golgi apparatus or the endoplasmic reticulum. They were discovered in 1980 by Peter Novick and Randy Schekman, of the Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley.[2]
References
- ^ Fulvio Reggiori, Chao-Wen Wang, Usha Nair, Takahiro Shintani, Hagai Abeliovich, and Daniel J. Klionsky, Early Stages of the Secretory Pathway, but Not Endosomes, Are Required for Cvt Vesicle and Autophagosome Assembly in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, from Molecular Biology of the Cell Vol. 15, 2189โ2204, May 2004.
- ^ Peter Novick, Charles Field and Randy Schekman. Identification of 23 Complementation Groups Required for Post-translational Events in the Yeast Secretory Pathway. Cell, Vol. 21, 205โ215, August, 1980.
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