Lipases in lysosomes, what for?

We have all learned in textbooks that “lysosomes contain hydrolases able to degrade all types of intracellular molecules which include proteases, glycosidases, nucleotidases and lipases.” To date, the only logical explanation for the presence of lipases inside of lysosomes was for the degradation of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Czaja, Mark J., Cuervo, Ana Maria
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Landes Bioscience 2009
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3643983/