Term Information

Accession
GO:0001725
Name
stress fiber
Ontology
cellular_component
Synonyms
stress fibre, actin cable
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
A contractile actin filament bundle that consists of short actin filaments with alternating polarity, cross-linked by alpha-actinin and possibly other actin bundling proteins, and with myosin present in a periodic distribution along the fiber. Source: PMID:16651381
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0001725 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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Parents of stress fiber (GO:0001725)
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stress fiber [is_a relation] is_a  actomyosin (GO:0042641)
stress fiber [is_a relation] is_a  contractile actin filament bundle (GO:0097517)

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