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  • 140913935888371703696221553513486173PublicAssets/5769Collecting and transporting cellular waste and sorting it into recylable and nonrecylable pieces is a complex business in the cell. One key player in that process is the endosome, which helps collect, sort and transport worn-out or leftover proteins with the help of a protein assembly called the endosomal sorting complexes for transport (or ESCRT for short). These complexes help package proteins marked for breakdown into intralumenal vesicles, which, in turn, are enclosed in multivesicular bodies for transport to the places where the proteins are recycled or dumped. In this image, two multivesicular bodies (with yellow membranes) contain tiny intralumenal vesicles (with a diameter of only 25 nanometers; shown in red) adjacent to the cell's vacuole (in orange). <Br><Br>Scientists working with baker's yeast (<i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i>) study the budding inward of the limiting membrane (green lines on top of the yellow lines) into the intralumenal vesicles. This tomogram was shot with a Tecnai F-20 high-energy electron microscope, at 29,000x magnification, with a 0.7-nm pixel, ~4-nm resolution. <Br><Br>To learn more about endosomes, see the <i>Biomedical Beat</i> blog post <a href="https://biobeat.nigms.nih.gov/2016/07/the-cells-mailroom/">The Cell’s Mailroom</a>. Related to a microscopy photograph <a href="https://images.nigms.nih.gov/pages/DetailPage.aspx?imageid2=5768">5768</a> that was used to generate this illustration and a zoomed-in version <a href="https://images.nigms.nih.gov/pages/DetailPage.aspx?imageid2=5767">5767</a> of this illustration.Matthew West and Greg Odorizzi, University of ColoradoMatthew West and Greg Odorizzi, University of ColoradoIllustration

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    Collecting and transporting cellular waste and sorting it into recylable and nonrecylable pieces is a complex business in the cell. One key player in that process is the endosome, which helps collect, sort and transport worn-out or leftover proteins with the help of a protein assembly called the endosomal sorting complexes for transport (or ESCRT for short). These complexes help package proteins marked for breakdown into intralumenal vesicles, which, in turn, are enclosed in multivesicular bodies for transport to the places where the proteins are recycled or dumped. In this image, two multivesicular bodies (with yellow membranes) contain tiny intralumenal vesicles (with a diameter of only 25 nanometers; shown in red) adjacent to the cell's vacuole (in orange).

    Scientists working with baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) study the budding inward of the limiting membrane (green lines on top of the yellow lines) into the intralumenal vesicles. This tomogram was shot with a Tecnai F-20 high-energy electron microscope, at 29,000x magnification, with a 0.7-nm pixel, ~4-nm resolution.

    To learn more about endosomes, see the Biomedical Beat blog post The Cell’s Mailroom. Related to a microscopy photograph 5768 that was used to generate this illustration and a zoomed-in version 5767 of this illustration.

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