Category:GO:0006887 ! exocytosis

name: exocytosis
namespace: biological_process
alt_id: GO:0016194
alt_id: GO:0016195
def: "A process of secretion by a cell that results in the release of intracellular molecules (e.g. hormones, matrix proteins) contained within a membrane-bounded vesicle. Exocytosis can occur either by full fusion, when the vesicle collapses into the plasma membrane, or by a kiss-and-run mechanism that involves the formation of a transient contact, a pore, between a granule (for example of chromaffin cells) and the plasma membrane. The latter process most of the time leads to only partial secretion of the granule content. Exocytosis begins with steps that prepare vesicles for fusion with the membrane (tethering and docking) and ends when molecules are secreted from the cell." [GOC:mah, ISBN:0716731363, PMID:22323285]
subset: goslim_yeast
synonym: "nonselective vesicle exocytosis" RELATED []
synonym: "vesicle exocytosis" EXACT []
xref: Wikipedia:Exocytosis
is_a: GO:0016192 ! vesicle-mediated transport
is_a: GO:0032940 ! secretion by cell
relationship: has_part: GO:0099500 ! vesicle fusion to plasma membrane

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