Category:GO:0030054 ! cell junction

name: cell junction
namespace: cellular_component
def: "A plasma membrane part that forms a specialized region of connection between two cells or between a cell and the extracellular matrix. At a cell junction, anchoring proteins extend through the plasma membrane to link cytoskeletal proteins in one cell to cytoskeletal proteins in neighboring cells or to proteins in the extracellular matrix." [GOC:mah, http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/cmb/cells/pmemb/junctions_a.html, ISBN:0198506732]
xref: Wikipedia:Cell_junction
is_a: GO:0005575 ! cellular_component

AmiGO

Child Terms

This term has the following 3 child terms, out of 3 total.

• [+] GO:0005911 ! cell-cell junction (10)
• [+] GO:0030055 ! cell-substrate junction (2)
• [+] GO:0070161 ! anchoring junction (2)

Pages in category "GO:0030054 ! cell junction"

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