Sentences with phrase «recycles cellular waste»
In youth, autophagy — controlled self - destruction, literally «self - eating» — removes and recycles cellular waste that would otherwise compromise cellular function and regeneration of replacement structures.
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Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany, now discovered a new family of helper proteins that recognize labeled cellular protein waste and guide them efficiently to the lysosome for destruction and subsequent recycling into their reusable compounds.
CUET proteins also associate with specific cellular structures that target the whole complex to the cellular waste disposal and recycling station, the lysosome.
Autophagy, the body's mechanism for the removal and recycling of cellular waste, is key to rejuvenation, especially in the mitochondria, and is allowed to proceed only in the postabsorptive state, in which insulin signaling ebbs to its lowest (basal) level.
In the mitochondria, which are easily damaged due to their role as the energy production factories in cells and can themselves become a key source of cellular damage, adequate autophagic waste recycling is critical for rejuvenation but diminishes in aging cells.