endocytosis

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• Scientists study endocytosis to understand how cells intake essential materials from their surroundings.

• HCV infiltrates the cell through receptor-mediated endocytosis, probably via clathrin-coated pits.

  Academic text (2007)

• How do we know endocytosis takes place?

• We conclude that the primary role of ligand endocytosis is to generate mechanical force to activate Notch signaling.

  Blog text (7)

• We have developed techniques to depict receptor-mediated endocytosis of mt-GCR by the cells and tissues of patients with Gaucher's disease.

  Academic text (1996)

• Beclin 1 can also regulate endocytosis and receptor recycling, crucial processes for growth factor signaling in neurons.

  Academic text (2018)

• The studies also shed light on a new role for endocytosis to activate signaling in cells that is unique to Notch, said Laurence Meloty-Kapella, a post-doctoral researcher and first author of one of the studies.

  Blog text (7)

• However, this does not explain the abnormal excretion of low-molecular-weight proteins, which are specifically absorbed in the proximal tubule by endocytosis and transported in an acidic vacuolar-lysosomal system.

  Academic text (1996)

• In one example of this mechanism, exosomes derived from SW480 colorectal cancer cells were effectively transferred and localized to the lysosomes of recipient HepG2 cells via dynamin-dependent endocytosis.

  Academic text (2017)

• During endocytosis, a cell engulfs a nutrient molecule by wrapping its membrane around it.

Synonyms

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engulfment

vsendocytosis

• Specialized

7.5

A process where a cell surrounds and takes in tiny things like bacteria

is the specific membrane-based process of taking substances into a cell

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology