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We have already seen that degradative enzymes are widespread in cells, and that eukaryotic cells have a specialized degradative organelle, the lysosome. Now we consider how the activities of the various degradative routes are integrated, and how they work with the selectivity which is observed. And it should be admitted immediately that we here deal more with hypotheses than with established mechanism.
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Dean, R.T. (1978). Mechanisms and control of cellular degradation. In: Cellular Degradative Processes. Outline Studies in Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7230-9_6
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