How does one microbe eat the other one without spilling its own content through the opened mouth in its cellular membrane?

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How does one microbe eat the other one without spilling its own content through the opened mouth in its cellular membrane?

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When a microbe eats another, there’s never actually a hole in the membrane. The membrane completely surrounds the other microbe, and then it breaks its own membrane and reforms it to the cell’s own membrane and a “bubble” around the victim. This is how a cell gets anything too large to enter the membrane through other methods. The victim cell can then be digested along with the bubble around it.