Planteome: Term Details for "immunological synapse" (GO:0001772)

Accession: GO:0001772
Name: immunological synapse
Ontology: cellular_component
Synonyms: supramolecular activation cluster, c-SMAC
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: An area of close contact between a lymphocyte (T-, B-, or natural killer cell) and a target cell formed through the clustering of particular signaling and adhesion molecules and their associated membrane rafts on both the lymphocyte and the target cell and facilitating activation of the lymphocyte, transfer of membrane from the target cell to the lymphocyte, and in some situations killing of the target cell through release of secretory granules and/or death-pathway ligand-receptor interaction. Source: PMID:11244041, GOC:mgi_curators, PMID:11376300
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0001772 at QuickGO
Subset: None
Related: Link to all annotated objects annotated to immunological synapse.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to immunological synapse.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for immunological synapse.
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subject	relation	object
immunological synapse	BFO:0000050	plasma membrane (GO:0005886)
immunological synapse	is_a	cellular anatomical entity (GO:0110165)

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