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microtubule

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Accession
GO:0005874
Name
microtubule
Ontology
cellular_component
Synonyms
microtubuli, microtubulus, neurotubule
Alternate IDs
None
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. Source: ISBN:0879693568
Comment
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History
See term history for GO:0005874 at QuickGO
Chem. react.
None
Subset
goslim_metagenomics
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Parents of microtubule (GO:0005874)
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microtubule [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  microtubule cytoskeleton (GO:0015630)
microtubule [RO:0002162 relation] RO:0002162  cellular organisms (NCBITaxon:131567)
microtubule [is_a relation] is_a  polymeric cytoskeletal fiber (GO:0099513)
Children of microtubule (GO:0005874)
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nuclear microtubule (GO:0005880) [is_a relation] is_a  microtubule
microtubule depolymerization (GO:0007019) [RO:0002590 relation] RO:0002590  microtubule
ciliary microtubule quartet (GO:0120260) [BFO:0000051 relation] BFO:0000051  microtubule
subpellicular microtubule (GO:0020025) [is_a relation] is_a  microtubule
post-anaphase array microtubule (GO:1905759) [is_a relation] is_a  microtubule
spindle microtubule (GO:0005876) [is_a relation] is_a  microtubule
transport along microtubule (GO:0010970) [RO:0002341 relation] RO:0002341  microtubule
microtubule end (GO:1990752) [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  microtubule
microtubule-based process (GO:0007017) [RO:0002608 relation] RO:0002608  microtubule
microtubule anchoring (GO:0034453) [RO:0000057 relation] RO:0000057  microtubule
microtubule plus-end directed mitotic chromosome migration (GO:0099606) [RO:0002341 relation] RO:0002341  microtubule
microtubule polymerization (GO:0046785) [RO:0002588 relation] RO:0002588  microtubule
axoneme (GO:0005930) [BFO:0000051 relation] BFO:0000051  microtubule
ventral disc microtubule array (GO:0097593) [BFO:0000051 relation] BFO:0000051  microtubule
protein localization to microtubule (GO:0035372) [RO:0002339 relation] RO:0002339  microtubule
microtubule bundle (GO:0097427) [BFO:0000051 relation] BFO:0000051  microtubule
microtubule motor activity (GO:0003777) [RO:0000057 relation] RO:0000057  microtubule
microtubule-based transport (GO:0099111) [RO:0002608 relation] RO:0002608  microtubule
microtubule severing (GO:0051013) [RO:0004009 relation] RO:0004009  microtubule
median body (GO:0097568) [BFO:0000051 relation] BFO:0000051  microtubule
microtubule bundle formation (GO:0001578) [RO:0000057 relation] RO:0000057  microtubule
ventral disc supernumerary microtubule array (GO:0097596) [BFO:0000051 relation] BFO:0000051  microtubule
intraconoid microtubule (GO:0033289) [is_a relation] is_a  microtubule
microtubule binding (GO:0008017) [RO:0004009 relation] RO:0004009  microtubule
cytoplasmic microtubule (GO:0005881) [is_a relation] is_a  microtubule
dendritic microtubule (GO:1901588) [is_a relation] is_a  microtubule
NIF_Subcellular
sao1846835077
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Microtubule