Planteome: Term Details for "gap junction" (GO:0005921)

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Term Information

Accession: GO:0005921
Name: gap junction
Ontology: cellular_component
Synonyms: communicating junction, gap junction macula, gap junction plaque, macula communicans, zonula communicans, electrical synapse, electrotonic synapse, intercellular gap junction channel
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A cell-cell junction composed of pannexins or innexins and connexins, two different families of channel-forming proteins. Source: PMID:22366062, GOC:mtg_muscle, Wikipedia:Gap_junction, GOC:mah, ISBN:0815332181
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0005921 at QuickGO
Subset: None
Related: Link to all annotated objects annotated to gap junction.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to gap junction.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for gap junction.
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GO:0005575 cellular_component
GO:0110165 cellular anatomical entity
GO:0030054 cell junction
GO:0070161 anchoring junction
GO:0005911 cell-cell junction
GO:0005921 gap junction
GO:0005922 connexin complex

Parents of gap junction (GO:0005921)

subject	relation	object
gap junction	is_a	cell-cell junction (GO:0005911)

Children of gap junction (GO:0005921)

subject	relation	object
connexin complex (GO:0005922)	BFO:0000050	gap junction

NIF_Subcellular: sao118541872
Wikipedia: Gap_junction