Term Information

Accession
GO:0002079
Name
inner acrosomal membrane
Ontology
cellular_component
Synonyms
None
Alternate IDs
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Definition
The acrosomal membrane region that underlies the acrosomal vesicle and is located toward the sperm nucleus. This region is responsible for molecular interactions allowing the sperm to penetrate the zona pellucida and fuses with the egg plasma membrane. Source: GOC:dph, PMID:3899643, PMID:8936405
Comment
Note that this term is not a descendant of 'organelle inner membrane ; GO:0019866' because the outer acrosomal membrane is a portion of the acrosomal membrane; the latter is a single lipid bilayer.
History
See term history for GO:0002079 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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Parents of inner acrosomal membrane (GO:0002079)
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inner acrosomal membrane [is_a relation] is_a  cytoplasmic vesicle membrane (GO:0030659)
inner acrosomal membrane [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  acrosomal membrane (GO:0002080)

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