Sentences with phrase «called endosomes»

In contrast, cholesterol was stored in special structures, called endosomes, which are distinct from lipid droplets in zebrafish intestines.

Also, with some nanoparticles much of the material ends up trapped in protective sacs called endosomes inside the cell, and there can be potential toxic side effects.

Using lab - grown mouse astrocytes with variant forms of NHE9, the researchers found a change in the pH (acidity) inside cellular compartments called endosomes, which in turn altered the ability of cells to take up glutamate.

Because certain cell secretion pathways have been suggested to be required for this process, University of Buenos Aires researcher Matías Ostrowski and colleagues investigated whether a role might be played by Rab27a, a protein that guides delivery of membrane - bound compartments called endosomes to the plasma membrane.

In their latest research, Lawrence Rajendran, of the University of Zurich in Switzerland, and his colleagues discovered that, unlike non-amyloid proteins, the Alzheimer's - associated amyloid precursor protein is cleaved by β - secretase in membrane - bound compartments inside cells, called endosomes.

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Endosomes are machinery that tumor cells, via a process called endocytosis, can use to incorporate components into their environment and obtain energy by degrading them via autodigestion or autophagy.

They can fuse with late endosomes, creating so - called endolysosomes, which degrade the material within the endosome.

Sometimes acidity in the endosome can activate protein - degrading enzymes called proteases.

The mutant mice with the higher endosome acidity also had more degradation of a receptor protein, called TrkB, that responds a neurotrophic factor called BDNF.