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macropinocytosis

Term Information

Accession
GO:0044351
Name
macropinocytosis
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
single-organism macropinocytosis, clathrin-independent pinocytosis
Alternate IDs
GO:1902538
Definition
An endocytosis process that results in the uptake of liquid material by cells from their external environment by the 'ruffling' of the cell membrane to form heterogeneously sized intracellular vesicles called macropinosomes, which can be up to 5 micrometers in size. Source: PMID:14732047
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0044351 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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Parents of macropinocytosis (GO:0044351)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
macropinocytosis [is_a relation] is_a  pinocytosis (GO:0006907)
Children of macropinocytosis (GO:0044351)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
regulation of macropinocytosis (GO:1905301) [RO:0002211 relation] RO:0002211  macropinocytosis
negative regulation of macropinocytosis (GO:1905302) [RO:0002212 relation] RO:0002212  macropinocytosis
extracellular exosome macropinocytosis (GO:0061707) [is_a relation] is_a  macropinocytosis
positive regulation of macropinocytosis (GO:1905303) [RO:0002213 relation] RO:0002213  macropinocytosis
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