What are Dictyosomes

Q. What are dictyosomes?

Answer:- Dictyosomes are structures that make up an important cell organelle found in most prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells and they are in charge of storing and modifying biomolecules required for cell construction.

The Golgi apparatus is made up of dictyosomes, which are net-like structures made up of flat, membrane-bound cavities called cisternae. In terms of function, they are identical to the Golgi apparatus.

Dictyosomes are cisternae, which are net-like flat membrane-bound cavity structures that make up the Golgi apparatus. Proteins are modified, sorted and packed into vesicles before being stored in dictyosomes for further transport.

Golgi Complexes are stacked membrane-bound pouches that are compressed. The dictyosome aids plate formation during cell division in plant cells. Dictyosomes are storage, modification, sorting and packing sites for proteins (which are further closed off as Golgi vesicles).

• The Golgi apparatus, also known as the Golgi complex, is a factory where proteins from the ER are further processed and sorted before being transported to lysosomes, the plasma membrane, or secretion.

• The difference between animal and plant cells’ dictyosomes is that animal cells’ dictyosomes are stacked tightly together, whereas plant cells’ dictyosomes are dispersed in the cytoplasm, making them difficult to identify as the Golgi apparatus. 

• Plant cells have a cup-shaped array of flattened membranous vesicles. Dictyosomes can polymerize sugars into polysaccharides and modify proteins from the endoplasmic reticulum. They then package these materials for transport within the cell (for example, to the cell wall), secretion, or storage and in animal cells

The Golgi apparatus is formed by the association of many dictyosomes in plant cells.