A small lytic vacuole that has cell cycle-independent morphology and is found in most animal cells and that contains a variety of hydrolases, most of which have their maximal activities in the pH range 5-6. The contained enzymes display latency if properly isolated. About 40 different lysosomal hydrolases are known and lysosomes have a great variety of morphologies and functions.

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Term information

Subsets

goslim_chembl, goslim_generic, goslim_plant

database cross reference

Wikipedia:Lysosome

NIF_Subcellular:sao585356902

has obo namespace

cellular_component

id

GO:0005764

imported from

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go.owl

never in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_4751

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