Term Information

Accession
GO:0044227
Name
methane-oxidizing organelle
Ontology
cellular_component
Synonyms
methane-oxidizing compartment, methanotroph intracytoplasmic membrane-bound compartment
Alternate IDs
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Definition
A cytoplasmic, membrane-bounded compartment found within Methanotrophic bacteria that contains enzymes and electron transfer proteins for methane catabolism. This structure is analogous to the thylakoid of Cyanobacteria and the anammoxosome of anaerobic ammonium oxidation organisms. Source: GOC:dh
Comment
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History
See term history for GO:0044227 at QuickGO
Subset
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Parents of methane-oxidizing organelle (GO:0044227)
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methane-oxidizing organelle [is_a relation] is_a  intracellular membrane-bounded organelle (GO:0043231)
methane-oxidizing organelle [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  cytoplasm (GO:0005737)

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