As they incessantly shake or spin or crawl around the cell, these machines cut, paste and copy genetic molecules, shuttle nutrients around or turn them into energy, build and
repair cellular membranes, relay mechanical, chemical or electrical messages — the list goes on and on, and new discoveries add to it all the time.
Not exact matches
The more primitive virus, however, carries no
repair mechanisms; a new virion (complete virus) acquires lipids for its envelope by literally ripping them off of the
cellular membrane as it buds off from the infected cell.
EFAs exert beneficial effects in many areas, including thermogenesis, anabolism, hormone synthesis, prostaglandin function, immune function,
repair of
cellular membranes, enabling cells to obtain optimum nutrition and more.
And it is responsible for
repairing damaged and defective organelles, cell
membranes and
cellular proteins...