Term Information

Accession
GO:0045065
Name
cytotoxic T cell differentiation
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
cytotoxic T lymphocyte selection, cytotoxic T-cell selection, cytotoxic T-lymphocyte selection, cytotoxic T cell development
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The process in which a relatively unspecialized T cell acquires specialized features of a cytotoxic T cell. Source: GOC:ai
Comment
Note that immunologists typically use the word 'development' to refer to cells of B or T cell lineages undergoing the process that GO describes as 'cell differentiation'.
History
See term history for GO:0045065 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of cytotoxic T cell differentiation (GO:0045065)
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cytotoxic T cell differentiation [is_a relation] is_a  T cell differentiation (GO:0030217)
Children of cytotoxic T cell differentiation (GO:0045065)
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negative regulation of cytotoxic T cell differentiation (GO:0045584) [RO:0002212 relation] RO:0002212  cytotoxic T cell differentiation
regulation of cytotoxic T cell differentiation (GO:0045583) [RO:0002211 relation] RO:0002211  cytotoxic T cell differentiation
positive regulation of cytotoxic T cell differentiation (GO:0045585) [RO:0002213 relation] RO:0002213  cytotoxic T cell differentiation
CD8-positive, alpha-beta cytotoxic T cell differentiation (GO:0002308) [is_a relation] is_a  cytotoxic T cell differentiation
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