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Cleaners of cell waste

Why are lysosomes recognized as ‘the cleaners’ of cell waste?

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Lysosomes perform heterophagic and autophagic digestion: autophagic digestion through digesting residual substances from cellular metabolism; heterophagic digestion through digesting substances which enter the cell.

Lysosomes enclose the substances to be degraded forming residual vacuoles, or digestive vacuoles, which later migrate to the plasma membrane fusing with it and releasing (exocytosis) the digested material to exterior. Cell Structure Review - Image Diversity- lysosomes.

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