12 August 2025
Make Some Peroxisomes!
Inside cells are a host of 'mini-organs', structures known as organelles. One such is the peroxisome, which is multi-functional, involved in both the breaking down and synthesising of different vital molecules. Now, researchers have discovered that provision of the right number of peroxisomes needed by the cell at any one time is regulated by an enzyme called PKC
Made with Leica Microsystems microscopy
Read the published research article here
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- Image from work by Anya Borisyuk and colleagues
- Global Health Institute, Faculty of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland & School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Journal of Cell Biology, July 2025
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