Through the process of autophagy, the organism is able to eliminate tumor cells, healthy cells, organelles worn or aged, among other structures.
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Components that result from deleted structures, such as proteins, are completely reused by the cells.
This is a process of great importance to maintain balance in the functioning, production and elimination of cells in an organism.
For autophagy to occur, the cell encompasses a part of its own cytoplasm that contains the structure to be degraded, giving rise to a vacuole autophagy known as an autophagosome.
This autophagosome binds to a lysosome for its digestive enzymes to degrade the contents of the vacuole.
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