Sentences with phrase «digesting lysosomes»

Large pale yellow spots are fat droplets, smaller ones waste - digesting lysosomes.

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Finally, APs fuse with lysosomes to form autolysosomes (ALs) that digest and release the breakdown products for re-use, much like a recycling plant would repurpose incoming trash.

The virus, with its hitchhiking antibodies still bound to it, then attaches to a cell and enters the lysosome — a membrane - bound structure within the cell that is filled with enzymes for digesting foreign and cellular components.

So the idea would be to identify the enzymes these organisms use to digest lysosomal wastes, modify them a bit to help them work in the slightly different environment of the human lysosome, and then deliver them to where they need to go in our cells.

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

Lysosomes not only digest human junk, they seek out bacteria and digest them.

If one of those gene pairs is defective, the lysosomes can not digest the particular substance under that enzyme's control and that substance can build up within the cell — eventually killing it.