Preferred Name | Microtubule | |
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Definitions |
Any of the long, generally straight, hollow tubes of internal diameter 12-15 nm and external diameter 24 nm found in a wide variety of eukaryotic cells; each consists (usually) of 13 protofilaments of polymeric tubulin, staggered in such a manner that the tubulin monomers are arranged in a helical pattern on the microtubular surface, and with the alpha/beta axes of the tubulin subunits parallel to the long axis of the tubule; exist in equilibrium with pool of tubulin monomers and can be rapidly assembled or disassembled in response to physiological stimuli; concerned with force generation, e.g. in the spindle (Gene Ontology). |
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ID |
http://ontology.neuinfo.org/NIF/BiomaterialEntities/NIF-Subcellular.owl#sao1846835077 |
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curationStatus |
uncurated |
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definition |
Any of the long, generally straight, hollow tubes of internal diameter 12-15 nm and external diameter 24 nm found in a wide variety of eukaryotic cells; each consists (usually) of 13 protofilaments of polymeric tubulin, staggered in such a manner that the tubulin monomers are arranged in a helical pattern on the microtubular surface, and with the alpha/beta axes of the tubulin subunits parallel to the long axis of the tubule; exist in equilibrium with pool of tubulin monomers and can be rapidly assembled or disassembled in response to physiological stimuli; concerned with force generation, e.g. in the spindle (Gene Ontology). |
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example |
http://ccdb.ucsd.edu/SAO/images/microtubules_sw_512x512.jpg http://ccdb.ucsd.edu/SAO/images/microtubules_2_sw_512x512.jpg |
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gene_Ontology_ID |
0005874 |
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label |
Microtubule |
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prefixIRI |
sao1846835077 |
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prefLabel |
Microtubule |
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sao_ID |
sao1846835077 |
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umls_ID |
C0026046 |
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disjointWith |
http://ontology.neuinfo.org/NIF/BiomaterialEntities/NIF-Subcellular.owl#sao2006047981 http://ontology.neuinfo.org/NIF/BiomaterialEntities/NIF-Subcellular.owl#sao952483289 |
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subClassOf |
http://ontology.neuinfo.org/NIF/BiomaterialEntities/NIF-Subcellular.owl#sao1635329413 |