Cisternal maturation models often postulate retrograde vesicular traffic from later cisternae to earlier ones, which carry back Golgi-resident proteins. A candidate of such vesicular carriers is ...

So, cisternal maturation is not specific to large, aggregated proteins. Moreover, the authors show that transport occurs without the cargo leaving the cisternal lumen.

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