Term Information

Accession
GO:0044350
Name
micropinocytosis
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
single-organism micropinocytosis, clathrin-independent pinocytosis
Alternate IDs
GO:1902540
Definition
An endocytosis process that results in the uptake of liquid material by cells from their external environment by invagination of the plasma membrane to form uncoated micropinosomes, differentiated from macropinosomes by their smaller size, on average 95 nm. Source: PMID:14732047, PMID:14731589
Comment
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History
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Subset
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micropinocytosis [is_a relation] is_a  pinocytosis (GO:0006907)

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