BI110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Pseudopodia, Exocytosis, Cell Membrane

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Compare and contrast phagocytosis, pinocytosis, and receptor- mediated endocytosis. Vesicle: membrane-bound structure that distinguishes endocytosis and exocytosis from diffusion or protein transport. Cell eating; large items are taken in. Major part of the body"s immune response. Clean up cellular debris and protect the body from pathogens. Single-celled eukaryotes, and some multicellular eukaryotes, use phagocytosis to feed on smaller cells and other materials. Allows an organism to bring in large particle of food and digest it. Pseudopodia: false foot; form from the cytoskeleton of the cell: in a process called engulfment, the pm extends the pseudopodia around the particle. When the particle is completely surrounded by the pseudopodia and brought into the cells, a vesicle called a phagosome is formed. The cell digests the particle using enzymes secreted into the phagosome. Since both lysosomes and phagosomes are membrane-bound vesicles, they can fuse their membranes and become one larger structure called a phagolysosome.

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