Definition of "endocytosed" [endocytosed]

• Ingested via endocytosis. (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of endocytose. (verb)

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• "There, it binds iron with high affinity, rebinds to its receptor and the hololigand is endocytosed again."
• "This collaboration led us, along with another fellow in the laboratory, Alice Dautry-Varsat (from the Pasteur Institute) who joined us later, to the discovery of a fascinating mechanism of how iron is delivered into cells, a process mediated by the transferrin receptor: In the neutral pH of the growth medium, the iron-loaded holo-transferrin binds to its receptor with a high affinity and is endocytosed into the cell."
• "It was known that antigen is endocytosed with antigen receptors and then degraded."