Term Information

Accession
GO:0036157
Name
outer dynein arm
Ontology
cellular_component
Synonyms
outer dynein arm complex
Alternate IDs
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Definition
Outer arm structure present on the outer doublet microtubules of ciliary and flagellar axonemes. Outer dynein arms contain 2-3 heavy chains, two or more intermediate chains and a cluster of 4-8 light chains. Inner and outer dynein arms have different functions in the generation of microtubule-based motility. Source: PMID:2557057, GOC:BHF, GOC:vk, PMID:6218174
Comment
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History
See term history for GO:0036157 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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outer dynein arm [is_a relation] is_a  axonemal dynein complex (GO:0005858)

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