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How proteins produced rough er can be secreted into the extracellular environment without crossing the plasma membrane?

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Proteins made in the rough ER travel to the Golgi, where they are packaged into vesicles for transport. These vesicles contact the cell membrane and release the protein extracellularly in a process called EXOCYTOSIS.
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