Term Information

Accession
GO:0002934
Name
desmosome organization
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
None
Alternate IDs
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Definition
A process that is carried out at the cellular level which results in the assembly, arrangement of constituent parts, or disassembly of a desmosome. A desmosome is a patch-like intercellular junction found in vertebrate tissues, consisting of parallel zones of two cell membranes, separated by an space of 25-35 nm, and having dense fibrillar plaques in the subjacent cytoplasm. Source: GOC:hjd
Comment
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History
See term history for GO:0002934 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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Parents of desmosome organization (GO:0002934)
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desmosome organization [is_a relation] is_a  cell-cell junction organization (GO:0045216)
Children of desmosome organization (GO:0002934)
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desmosome disassembly (GO:0035921) [is_a relation] is_a  desmosome organization
desmosome maintenance (GO:0002160) [is_a relation] is_a  desmosome organization
desmosome assembly (GO:0002159) [is_a relation] is_a  desmosome organization
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