Term Information

Accession
GO:0036224
Name
pairing center
Ontology
cellular_component
Synonyms
homolog recognition region
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
A special chromosome region located towards one end of a chromosome that contains dispersed copies of short, repetitive DNA sequences and functions as a cis-acting element essential for presynaptic homologous chromosome pairing and chromosome-nuclear envelope attachment. Source: GOC:kmv, PMID:18597662
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0036224 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
Comments, changes to terms, or requests for new ontology terms can be made at GO issue tracker on GitHub.

Filter results

Loading...
pending...
Parents of pairing center (GO:0036224)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
pairing center [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  condensed nuclear chromosome (GO:0000794)
pairing center [is_a relation] is_a  cellular anatomical entity (GO:0110165)

This term has no children.

None.