MICROANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Lysosomes filled with hydrolytic enzymes are used for the controlled intracellular digestion of macromolecules. They contain about 40 types of hydrolytic enzymes, including proteases, nucleases, glycosidases, lipases, phospholipases, phosphatases, and sulfatases.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hydrolytic enzymes are the enzymes that catalyse the hydrolysis of various bonds such as peptide, ester, glycosidic, ether, carbon-carbon bonds, carbon-halide bonds and P-N bonds. They utilise water to break the bonds. They break a larger molecule into smaller molecules.

Detailed explanation-3: -All of the lysosomal enzymes are acid hydrolases, which are active at the acidic pH (about 5) that is maintained within lysosomes but not at the neutral pH (about 7.2) characteristic of the rest of the cytoplasm (Figure 9.35).