Planteome: Term Details for "bicellular tight junction" (GO:0005923)

Notice

Some functionality on this page depends on JavaScript. To fully use the features of AmiGO 2, enable JavaScript in your browser and reload from the landing page.

Term Information

Accession: GO:0005923
Name: bicellular tight junction
Ontology: cellular_component
Synonyms: zonula occludens
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: An occluding cell-cell junction that is composed of a branching network of sealing strands that completely encircles the apical end of each cell in an epithelial sheet; the outer leaflets of the two interacting plasma membranes are seen to be tightly apposed where sealing strands are present. Each sealing strand is composed of a long row of transmembrane adhesion proteins embedded in each of the two interacting plasma membranes. Source: GOC:mah, ISBN:0815332181
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0005923 at QuickGO
Subset: None
Related: Link to all annotated objects annotated to bicellular tight junction.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to bicellular tight junction.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for bicellular tight junction.
Feedback: Comments, changes to terms, or requests for new ontology terms can be made at GO issue tracker on GitHub.

Filter results

Viewing options

GO:0005575 cellular_component
GO:0110165 cellular anatomical entity
GO:0030054 cell junction
GO:0070161 anchoring junction
GO:0005911 cell-cell junction
GO:0043296 apical junction complex
GO:0070160 tight junction
GO:0005923 bicellular tight junction
GO:0044647 host-symbiont bicellular tight junction

Parents of bicellular tight junction (GO:0005923)

subject	relation	object
bicellular tight junction	is_a	tight junction (GO:0070160)
bicellular tight junction	BFO:0000050	apical junction complex (GO:0043296)

Children of bicellular tight junction (GO:0005923)

subject	relation	object
host-symbiont bicellular tight junction (GO:0044647)	is_a	bicellular tight junction

NIF_Subcellular: sao1939999134
Wikipedia: Tight_junction