Term Information

Accession
GO:0020003
Name
symbiont-containing vacuole
Ontology
cellular_component
Synonyms
SCV, parasitophorous vacuole, Salmonella-containing vacuole, bacterium-containing vacuole, pathogen-occupied vacuole
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
Membrane-bounded vacuole within a host cell in which a symbiont organism resides. The vacuole membrane is derived from both the host and symbiont. Source: GOC:jl, GOC:mb
Comment
Note that this term does not have a relationship to 'vacuole ; GO:0005773' because it does not fit the definition of a vacuole; the parasitophorous vacuole was so named because it resembles a vacuole in the microscope.
History
See term history for GO:0020003 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of symbiont-containing vacuole (GO:0020003)
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symbiont-containing vacuole [is_a relation] is_a  extracellular membrane-bounded organelle (GO:0065010)
symbiont-containing vacuole [is_a relation] is_a  host cell cytoplasm part (GO:0033655)
Children of symbiont-containing vacuole (GO:0020003)
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symbiont-containing vacuole membrane (GO:0020005) [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  symbiont-containing vacuole
symbiont-containing vacuolar space (GO:0020004) [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  symbiont-containing vacuole
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