Term Information

Accession
GO:0005618
Name
cell wall
Ontology
cellular_component
Synonyms
None
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The rigid or semi-rigid envelope lying outside the cell membrane of plant, fungal, most prokaryotic cells and some protozoan parasites, maintaining their shape and protecting them from osmotic lysis. In plants it is made of cellulose and, often, lignin; in fungi it is composed largely of polysaccharides; in bacteria it is composed of peptidoglycan; in protozoan parasites such as Giardia species, it's made of carbohydrates and proteins. Source: GOC:giardia, PMID:15134259, ISBN:0198547684, Wikipedia:Microbial_cyst
Comment
Not to be used for manual annotation. Please choose a more specific term: for bacteria, annotate to GO:0009274; peptidoglycan-based cell wall, for plants: annotate to GO:0009505 ; plant-type cell wall, for fungi: GO:0009277 ; fungal-type cell wall, and for archae, use GO:0030115 S-layer (see PMID:31214995).
History
See term history for GO:0005618 at QuickGO
Subset
goslim_metagenomics
gocheck_do_not_annotate
goslim_chembl
goslim_plant
goslim_generic
prokaryote_subset
goslim_candida
goslim_yeast
goslim_pir
Feedback
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Parents of cell wall (GO:0005618)
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cell wall [is_a relation] is_a  external encapsulating structure (GO:0030312)
Children of cell wall (GO:0005618)
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perforation plate (GO:1990073) [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  cell wall
filiform apparatus (GO:0043680) [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  cell wall
plant-type cell wall (GO:0009505) [is_a relation] is_a  cell wall
external side of cell wall (GO:0010339) [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  cell wall
structural constituent of cell wall (GO:0005199) [BFO:0000066 relation] BFO:0000066  cell wall
cyst wall (GO:0097570) [is_a relation] is_a  cell wall
peptidoglycan-based cell wall (GO:0009274) [is_a relation] is_a  cell wall
spore wall (GO:0031160) [is_a relation] is_a  cell wall
fungal-type cell wall (GO:0009277) [is_a relation] is_a  cell wall
Wikipedia
Cell_wall