Preferred Name |
microtubule |
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Synonyms |
microtubulus microtubuli |
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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. |
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ID |
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0005874 |
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altLabel |
microtubulus microtubuli |
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BFO_0000050 | ||
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. |
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hasOBONamespace |
cellular_component |
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id |
GO:0005874 |
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notation |
GO:0005874 |
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prefLabel |
microtubule |
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relatedMatch |
Wikipedia:Microtubule NIF_Subcellular:sao1846835077 |
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subClassOf |