Explanation:
While cells facilitate the transport of molecules via movement across the cell membrane, there many different mechanisms. These include passive diffusion, facilitated diffusion, active and passive transport. However some very large molecules require specialized type of active transport, which requires energy in the form of ATP, in order to move substances across the membrane against their concentration gradient, this includes endocytosis and exocytosis.
Further Explanation:
- Active transport is a mediated process that requires an energy input and the use of specialized membrane proteins to move against the concentration gradient. These proteins require energy in the form of adenosine triphosphate or ATP in order to facilitate necessary conformational changes to the large protein molecules to alter the spatial location of the molecule. For instance, with Na+, K+ pumps in cell membranes.
- During endocytosis large molecules cells and cell fragments moved across the plasma membrane through a process of invagination; piece of the external cell membrane falls into itself and forms a small pocket that surrounds the target molecule, this breaks off from the membrane to form an intracellular vesicle. Different methods of endocytosis such as Phagocytosis, Pinocytosis and receptor-mediated endocytosis, take in cells, water and targeted substances respectively. During phagocytosis, cells engulf large particles into compartments in the cell called phagosomes, after which they are broken down by specialnlysosomes containing enzymes.
- In exocytosis, large particles (proteins, neurotransmitters, waste material etc.) are surrounded by a phospholipid membrane in a vesicle. However, this membrane is formed in the cytoplasm, and attaches to the plasma membrane’s interior in a process opposite to endocytosis; material is removed from the cell and exported into the cell’s exterior called the extracellular space.
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