How to Use lysosome in a Sentence

lysosome

noun
  • Over the nine years since Sabatini’s talk, lysosomes have won more respect.
    — Quanta Magazine, 25 Apr. 2017
  • Their lysosomes don’t make enough of an enzyme that helps create and sustain the protective coating around nerve fibers.
    — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • In those with Batten, a defect occurs in the lysosomes, cell organelles that remove cell waste.
    — Cindy Sutter, The Denver Post, 20 Jan. 2017
  • These drugs work by impairing a part of the cell called the lysosome, which basically breaks down and gets rid of cellular garbage.
    — Popular Science, 15 Dec. 2020
  • This enzyme is active in lysosomes, which are structures inside cells that act as recycling centers.
    — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 1 May 2026
  • This enzyme is active in lysosomes, which are structures inside cells that act as recycling centers.
    — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 6 May 2026
  • Researchers are trying to work out how to use organelles like mitochondria and lysosomes to deliver drugs.
    — Helen Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
  • This allows the virus's genetic material to escape from the lysosome into the cell.
    — TheWeek, 28 Mar. 2020
  • This allows the virus’s genetic material to escape from the lysosome into the cell.
    — Tim Vernimmen, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Sabatini proudly projected a slide with the team’s findings, showing the enzyme arrayed along the surface of the organelles called lysosomes.
    — Quanta Magazine, 25 Apr. 2017
  • In aged mouse stem cells, the lysosomes had become hyperacidic, damaged, depleted and abnormally active.
    — Allison Palmer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 June 2026
  • Rather, they all are involved in sending cellular materials to the waste-recycling compartment called the lysosome.
    — Amber Dance Knowable Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Its main task is to shuttle cellular detritus to the lysosome, an organelle containing digestive enzymes, where it can be chewed up and recycled.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Bacteria and archaea have no nuclei, lysosomes, mitochondria or skeletons.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Our cells have many compartments — lysosomes for breaking down food molecules, for example, and the endoplasmic reticulum for moving proteins around the cell.
    — Carl Zimmer, STAT, 30 May 2018
  • And sure enough, the analysis showed damage to the cardiac mitochondria, which power the cells, and oversize lysosomes, which help break down cellular material.
    — Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 4 May 2026
  • The team looked at hematopoietic stem cells, the blood-forming stem cells that generate every red blood cell, white blood cell and platelet in the body, and zeroed in on the lysosome, the part of the cell that handles cellular recycling.
    — Allison Palmer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 June 2026
  • This likely relates to additional functions that specific lysosomes have, such as sensing nutrients and repairing broken membranes.
    — Katarina Zimmer, JSTOR Daily, 14 Aug. 2025
  • After the spike protein attaches to an ACE2 receptor, scientists believe that the membrane surrounding the cell may then engulf the virus to bring it inside and transport it to a lysosome.
    — Tim Vernimmen, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2020
  • In fact, real-time imaging revealed eggs jettisoning lysosomes into the surrounding fluid, while their mitochondria and proteasomes simultaneously migrate to the outer rim of the cells.
    — Ian Randall, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Essentially, old cells and any intrusive particles – Zheng’s team used gold nanoparticles in their experiment – are enclosed in the cell lysosome and eventually get pushed out from the kidney’s surface, while the contents of the cells are renewed.
    — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Earlier in 2025, biophysicist Melike Lakadamyali of the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues discovered that organelles called lysosomes, whose textbook role is to break down waste material in cells, can have different combinations of proteins on their surfaces.
    — Katarina Zimmer, JSTOR Daily, 14 Aug. 2025

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