Term Information

Accession
GO:0070111
Name
organellar chromatophore
Ontology
cellular_component
Synonyms
Paulinella-type chromatophore
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
A bacteroid-containing symbiosome in which the bacterial component is a genetically highly reduced cyanobacterium that is photosynthetically active and incapable of an independent existence outside its host. The chromatophore functions as a photosynthetic organelle, and has been found and characterized in the amoeba Paulinella chromatophora. Source: PMID:18356055, GOC:expert_mm
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0070111 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of organellar chromatophore (GO:0070111)
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organellar chromatophore [is_a relation] is_a  bacteroid-containing symbiosome (GO:0043660)
Children of organellar chromatophore (GO:0070111)
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organellar chromatophore intermembrane space (GO:0070115) [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  organellar chromatophore
organellar chromatophore membrane (GO:0070112) [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  organellar chromatophore
organellar chromatophore thylakoid (GO:0070116) [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  organellar chromatophore
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