Golgi membrane

GO:0000139 · Membrane organelle · Membrane · Proposed

The lipid bilayer surrounding any of the compartments of the Golgi apparatus. [GO:0000139]

Synonyms: Golgi apparatus membrane

Part of: Golgi apparatus (GO:0005794)

Components

Component	Type	Part of / acts on	Grounding	Genes	Stoichiometry	Essential	Role
Golgi lipid bilayer	Lipid	part of	Reviewed label only (reviewed name; no accession asserted)			ESSENTIAL	Lipid-bilayer constituent of Golgi membranes that surround Golgi apparatus compartments. `GO:0000139` GO:0000139 defines the Golgi membrane as the lipid bilayer surrounding Golgi apparatus compartments.

NCBITaxon:4932 Saccharomyces cerevisiae — COMMON: Live-cell imaging in budding yeast resolved Golgi cisternae as they mature from early to late compartments. [DOI:10.1038/nature04717]

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

The Golgi membrane bounds Golgi cisternae and donates membrane for COPI-coated vesicle budding.

Subject	Predicate	Object	Evidence
Golgi membrane	is part of	Golgi apparatus	`GO:0000139` GO:0000139 defines the Golgi membrane as the lipid bilayer surrounding Golgi apparatus compartments.
Golgi membrane	bounds	Golgi cisterna	`GO:0000139` GO:0000139 identifies the Golgi membrane as the bilayer around Golgi apparatus compartments. `GO:0031985` GO:0031985 identifies the Golgi cisterna as a cellular component of the Golgi apparatus.
COPI vesicle coat	assembles on	Golgi membrane	`GO:0035964` GO:0035964 defines COPI-coated vesicle budding as evagination of a Golgi membrane. `DOI:10.1016/0092-8674(91)90176-y` Serafini et al. 1991 studied coat subunits on Golgi-derived COP-coated vesicles.

CURATION_TODO (OPEN): Resolve an exact source-neutral grounding for the lipid constituent of the Golgi membrane. The record is exactly grounded to GO:0000139, but the Golgi lipid bilayer constituent is intentionally left as reviewed-label-only until an exact source-neutral lipid or membrane-constituent CURIE is curated.

GO:0000139 Gene Ontology cellular-component term for Golgi membrane.
GO:0016020 Gene Ontology cellular-component parent term for membrane.
GO:0005794 Gene Ontology cellular-component term for Golgi apparatus.
GO:0031985 Gene Ontology cellular-component term for Golgi cisterna.
GO:0030126 Gene Ontology cellular-component term for the COPI vesicle coat.
GO:0035964 Gene Ontology biological-process term for COPI-coated vesicle budding.
DOI:10.1016/0092-8674(91)90176-y Serafini et al. 1991, 'ADP-Ribosylation factor is a subunit of the coat of Golgi-derived COP-coated vesicles', Cell.
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.

2026-09-14T03:26:30Z codex · CREATED_RECORD — Scaffolded by scripts/new_record.py
2026-09-14T03:27:18Z codex · EXPANDED_RECORD — Added the GO exact Golgi apparatus membrane synonym, generic membrane parentage, Golgi-apparatus parthood, a reviewed-label-only Golgi lipid bilayer component, Saccharomyces scope, GO/DOI evidence, a nonmechanistic Golgi membrane topology graph, and a lipid-grounding TODO.