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Propose an explanation as to why beta cells would have a greater concentration of rough endoplasmic reticulum and ribosomes than some other cell types.

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Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and Golgi apparatus are subjected to mass spectrometry have uncovered over a thousand different proteins assigned to the ER and Golgi apparatus of rat liver. In turn, led to the uncovering of several hundred proteins of poorly understood function and, through hierarchical clustering, showed that proteins distributed in patterns suggestive of microdomains in cognate organelles.

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