Category:GO:0001772 ! immunological synapse

name: immunological synapse
namespace: cellular_component
def: "An area of close contact between a lymphocyte (T-, B-, or natural killer cell) and a target cell formed through the clustering of particular signaling and adhesion molecules and their associated membrane rafts on both the lymphocyte and the target cell and facilitating activation of the lymphocyte, transfer of membrane from the target cell to the lymphocyte, and in some situations killing of the target cell through release of secretory granules and/or death-pathway ligand-receptor interaction." [GOC:mgi_curators, PMID:11244041, PMID:11376300]
synonym: "c-SMAC" NARROW [PMID:14724296]
synonym: "supramolecular activation cluster" EXACT [PMID:14724296]
xref: Wikipedia:Immunological_synapse
is_a: GO:0044459 ! plasma membrane part

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