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Study shows how cells form 'trash bags' for recycling waste

submitted by agwartney on October 23, 2012
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Tags: cells , recycle , trash , vesicles , waste
Source: phys.org
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To remove waste from cells, a class of membrane-sculpting proteins create vesicles—molecular trash bags—that carry old and damaged proteins from the surface of cellular compartments into internal recycling plants where the waste is degraded and components are reused.

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