accession | 0005874 |
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created | [InstanceEdit:1598085] Higgins, JA, 2007-08-14 |
databaseName | GO |
dbId | 1598593 |
definition | Any of the long, generally straight, hollow tubes of internal diameter 12-15 nm and external diameter 24 nm found in a wide variety of eukaryotic cells; each consists (usually) of 13 protofilaments of polymeric tubulin, staggered in such a manner that the tubulin monomers are arranged in a helical pattern on the microtubular surface, and with the alpha/beta axes of the tubulin subunits parallel to the long axis of the tubule; exist in equilibrium with pool of tubulin monomers and can be rapidly assembled or disassembled in response to physiological stimuli; concerned with force generation, e.g. in the spindle. |
displayName | microtubule |
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modified | [InstanceEdit:9773560] Weiser, Joel, 2022-05-04 |
name | microtubule |
referenceDatabase | [ReferenceDatabase:1] GO |
schemaClass | Compartment |
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url | https://www.ebi.ac.uk/QuickGO/term/GO:0005874 |
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