Compartmentalization
From Biocrawler, the free encyclopedia.
Most intracellular organelles, i.e. mitochondria, lysosomes are bounded with membranes. Within the membrane-bound compartments, different intracellular pH, different enzyme systems can be isolated fron the other organelles. The main significance of compartmentalization (separate various organelles by forming different compartments in the cell) is to enable the cell carry out different metabolic activities at the same time.
