Written By: Kiat Yi
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Cell Inclusions are aggregates of various compounds that are normally involved in storing energy reserves or building blocks for the cell. That means that they are made up of a combination of cell compounds, mainly proteins, and besides being the building blocks of the cell, they also store the cell’s excess energy for future use.
Cell inclusions are small, non-living intracellular (that means “inside the cell”) particles, usually represented as a form of stored food, and are not immediately vital to life processes. They also typically represent sites of viral multiplication in a bacterium or a eukaryotic cell and usually consist of viral capsid proteins (the protein shell of a virus).
Some examples of inclusions include:
- metachromatic granules
- polysaccharide granules
- lipid inclusions
- sulfur granules
- carboxysomes
- gas vacuoles
Reference Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusion_bodies
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