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

Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 08:01 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org)—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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