vacuole

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The gas vacuole is a compound organelle, composed of a variable number of gas vesicles.

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  1. noun A small cavity in the cytoplasm of a cell, bound by a single membrane and containing water, food, or metabolic waste.

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  • "Our hypothesis is that the vacuole, a bag in the cell that captures toxins, is sitting there and taking in manganese and sequestering it for detoxification, keeping it away from other cell organelles," explains Gitler. —  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • The gas vacuole is a compound organelle, composed of a variable number of gas vesicles. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Treatment of erythrocytic parasites with cysteine protease inhibitors or disruption of the falcipain-2 gene results in accumulation of undegraded hemoglobin in the food vacuole, confirming a role for this enzyme in hemoglobin hydrolysis —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • P. falciparum food vacuole, the site of hemoglobin hydrolysis by the falcipains, notably at pH 5.5. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • These conditions were designed to match those in the intact food vacuole, including modest reducing conditions (1 mM DTT) and pH of 5.5. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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  1. French, from Latin vacuus, empty; see vacuum.

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  1. from French vacuole, from New Latin *vacuolum, diminutive of Latin vacuum, an empty space, vacuum: see vacuum.
 

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