Term Information

Accession
GO:0005921
Name
gap junction
Ontology
cellular_component
Synonyms
communicating junction, gap junction macula, gap junction plaque, macula communicans, zonula communicans, electrical synapse, electrotonic synapse, intercellular gap junction channel
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
A cell-cell junction composed of pannexins or innexins and connexins, two different families of channel-forming proteins. Source: PMID:22366062, GOC:mtg_muscle, Wikipedia:Gap_junction, GOC:mah, ISBN:0815332181
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0005921 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of gap junction (GO:0005921)
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gap junction [is_a relation] is_a  cell-cell junction (GO:0005911)
Children of gap junction (GO:0005921)
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connexin complex (GO:0005922) [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  gap junction
NIF_Subcellular
sao118541872
Wikipedia
Gap_junction