Term Information

Accession
GO:0002160
Name
desmosome maintenance
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
None
Alternate IDs
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Definition
The maintenance of a desmosome. A desmosome is a patch-like intercellular junctions found in vertebrate tissues, consisting of parallel zones of two cell membranes, separated by an interspace of 25-35 nm, and having dense fibrillar plaques in the subjacent cytoplasm. Source: ISBN:0198506732, GOC:hjd
Comment
Desmosomes link two cells together; hemidesmosomes attach one cell to the extracellular matrix.
History
See term history for GO:0002160 at QuickGO
Subset
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Parents of desmosome maintenance (GO:0002160)
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desmosome maintenance [is_a relation] is_a  cell-cell junction maintenance (GO:0045217)
desmosome maintenance [is_a relation] is_a  desmosome organization (GO:0002934)

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