Category:GO:0005618 ! cell wall

name: cell wall
namespace: cellular_component
def: "The rigid or semi-rigid envelope lying outside the cell membrane of plant, fungal, most prokaryotic cells and some protozoan parasites, maintaining their shape and protecting them from osmotic lysis. In plants it is made of cellulose and, often, lignin; in fungi it is composed largely of polysaccharides; in bacteria it is composed of peptidoglycan; in protozoan parasites such as Giardia species, it's made of carbohydrates and proteins." [GOC:giardia, ISBN:0198547684, PMID:15134259, Wikipedia:Microbial_cyst]
comment: Not to be used for manual annotation. Please choose a more specific term: for bacteria, annotate to GO:0009274; peptidoglycan-based cell wall, for plants: annotate to GO:0009505 ; plant-type cell wall, for fungi: GO:0009277 ; fungal-type cell wall, and for archae, use GO:0030115 S-layer (see PMID:31214995).
subset: gocheck_do_not_annotate
subset: goslim_candida
subset: goslim_chembl
subset: goslim_euk_cellular_processes_ribbon
subset: goslim_generic
subset: goslim_metagenomics
subset: goslim_pir
subset: goslim_plant
subset: goslim_plant_ribbon
subset: goslim_prokaryote
subset: goslim_prokaryote_ribbon
subset: goslim_yeast
xref: Wikipedia:Cell_wall
is_a: GO:0030312 ! external encapsulating structure

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