Sentences with phrase «called lysosomes»

The cells identified are extremely efficient at isolating cancer drugs in compartments called lysosomes.

By another twist of fate, Cuervo soon began to study autophagy — the process by which cells break down their waste inside organelles called lysosomes.

The work is done inside cell structures called lysosomes.

NPC is caused by a mutation in one of two genes, resulting in problems in how a person's cells process cholesterol in structures called lysosomes.

Researchers knew that cells could ingest some molecules and break them down completely inside small vesicles called lysosomes, but none of the products was transported back to the surface of the cell.

Derived from Greek terms meaning «self - eating,» the autophagy system sends protein aggregates and malfunctioning cellular components into acidic compartments called lysosomes, where enzymes chew them up.

During antibacterial autophagy, the bacteria get tagged with the protein ubiquitin, marking them for destruction by an organelle called the lysosome.

Cells often shunt poisons they absorb to an organelle called the lysosome for destruction.

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«Cells sequester trash in compartments called autophagosomes» Cells follow a set recipe for recycling: First, the autophagosome is formed around the trash, next autophagosomes are transported and merged with lysosomes — another cellular compartment — and finally, the contents are degraded and either secreted or reused by the cell.

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that two key cellular structures, called mitochondria and lysosomes, come into direct contact with each other in the cell to regulate their respective functions.

They were born without a working copy of CLN2, a gene whose protein helps lysosomes — the cell's garbage - disposing structures — break down a waste product called lipofuscin.

After fusion of autophagosomes with lysosomes, the protein content is digested by a variety of proteases, called cathepsins [130].

«Cells sequester trash in compartments called autophagosomes» Cells follow a set recipe for recycling: First, the autophagosome is formed around the trash, next autophagosomes are transported and merged with lysosomes - another cellular compartment — and finally, the contents are degraded and either secreted or reused by the cell.