Golgi cisterna

GO:0031985 · Membrane organelle · Membrane bounded organelle · Proposed

Any of the thin, flattened membrane-bounded compartments that form the central portion of the Golgi complex. [GO:0031985]

Part of: Golgi apparatus (GO:0005794)

Has part: Golgi cisterna membrane (GO:0032580)

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Components

Component	Type	Part of / acts on	Grounding	Genes	Stoichiometry	Essential	Role
Golgi cisternal lipid bilayer	Lipid	part of	Reviewed label only (reviewed name; no accession asserted)			ESSENTIAL	Lipid-bilayer boundary that encloses the Golgi cisternal compartment. `GO:0031985` GO:0031985 defines a Golgi cisterna as a membrane-bounded compartment in the central portion of the Golgi complex. `GO:0032580` GO:0032580 defines the Golgi cisterna membrane as the lipid bilayer around a Golgi cisterna.

Taxonomic distribution

NCBITaxon:4932 Saccharomyces cerevisiae — COMMON: Live-cell imaging in budding yeast directly resolved maturing Golgi cisternae. [DOI:10.1038/nature04717]

Canonical examples

NCBITaxon:4932 Saccharomyces cerevisiae — Budding-yeast model in which Golgi cisternal maturation was visualized with fluorescent cisternal markers. [DOI:10.1038/nature04737]

Functions

cisternal maturation — Golgi cisternae transition from early to late resident-marker identities during budding-yeast cisternal maturation.
- DOI:10.1038/nature04717 Losev et al. 2006 visualized Golgi maturation dynamics in living Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
- DOI:10.1038/nature04737 Matsuura-Tokita et al. 2006 used live imaging to follow yeast Golgi cisternal maturation.

Mechanism graphs

Yeast Golgi cisternae mature over time (FUNCTION)

Live imaging of Saccharomyces cerevisiae showed that Golgi cisternae change resident marker composition as they mature from early to late compartments.

Subject	Predicate	Object	Evidence
Golgi cisterna membrane	bounds	Golgi cisterna	`GO:0031985` GO:0031985 defines Golgi cisternae as thin, flattened membrane-bounded compartments. `GO:0032580` GO:0032580 identifies the Golgi cisterna membrane as the bilayer around Golgi cisternae.
Golgi cisterna	is part of	Golgi apparatus	`DOI:10.1038/nature04717` Losev et al. 2006 tracked individual Golgi cisternae in living yeast.
Golgi cisterna	undergoes	early-to-late cisternal maturation	`DOI:10.1038/nature04737` Matsuura-Tokita et al. 2006 visualized yeast Golgi cisternal maturation in living cells.

Discussions

CURATION_TODO (OPEN): Resolve an exact source-neutral grounding for the lipid constituent of the Golgi cisterna membrane. The record is exactly grounded to GO:0031985, and GO:0032580 identifies the surrounding Golgi cisterna membrane, but the cisternal lipid bilayer constituent is intentionally left as reviewed-label-only until an exact source-neutral lipid or membrane-constituent CURIE is curated.

Evidence

GO:0031985 Gene Ontology cellular-component term for Golgi cisterna.
GO:0098791 Gene Ontology cellular-component parent term for Golgi apparatus subcompartment.
GO:0005794 Gene Ontology cellular-component term for Golgi apparatus.
GO:0032580 Gene Ontology cellular-component term for Golgi cisterna membrane.
DOI:10.1038/nature04717 Losev et al. 2006, 'Golgi maturation visualized in living yeast', Nature.
DOI:10.1038/nature04737 Matsuura-Tokita et al. 2006, 'Live imaging of yeast Golgi cisternal maturation', Nature.

Curation history

2026-09-14T03:39:37Z codex · CREATED_RECORD — Scaffolded by scripts/new_record.py
2026-09-14T03:40:07Z codex · EXPANDED_RECORD — Added Golgi-subcompartment parentage, Golgi-apparatus parthood, Golgi cisterna membrane as a part, a reviewed-label-only cisternal lipid bilayer component, Saccharomyces scope, cisternal-maturation function, GO/DOI evidence, a nonmechanistic cisternal maturation graph, and a lipid-grounding TODO.
2026-09-14T03:46:08Z codex · ADDRESS_REVIEW — Resolved #875 by grounding the Golgi cisterna boundary graph node to GO:0032580 Golgi cisterna membrane instead of the generic GO:0000139 Golgi membrane.

Source: data/structures/membrane_organelle/golgi_cisterna.yaml