Planteome: Term Details for "bicellular tight junction" (GO:0005923)

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Term Information

Accession: GO:0005923
Name: bicellular tight junction
Ontology: cellular_component
Synonyms: zonula occludens
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: An occluding cell-cell junction that is composed of a branching network of sealing strands that completely encircles the apical end of each cell in an epithelial sheet; the outer leaflets of the two interacting plasma membranes are seen to be tightly apposed where sealing strands are present. Each sealing strand is composed of a long row of transmembrane adhesion proteins embedded in each of the two interacting plasma membranes. Source: GOC:mah, ISBN:0815332181
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0005923 at QuickGO
Subset: None
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GO:0005575 cellular_component
GO:0110165 cellular anatomical entity
GO:0030054 cell junction
GO:0070161 anchoring junction
GO:0005911 cell-cell junction
GO:0043296 apical junction complex
GO:0070160 tight junction
GO:0005923 bicellular tight junction
GO:0044647 host-symbiont bicellular tight junction

Parents of bicellular tight junction (GO:0005923)

subject	relation	object
bicellular tight junction	is_a	tight junction (GO:0070160)
bicellular tight junction	BFO:0000050	apical junction complex (GO:0043296)

Children of bicellular tight junction (GO:0005923)

subject	relation	object
host-symbiont bicellular tight junction (GO:0044647)	is_a	bicellular tight junction

NIF_Subcellular: sao1939999134
Wikipedia: Tight_junction