Terminology Service for NFDI4Health

cellular_component

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The part of a cell or its extracellular environment in which a gene product is located. A gene product may be located in one or more parts of a cell and its location may be as specific as a particular macromolecular complex, that is, a stable, persistent association of macromolecules that function together. [ ]

A location, relative to cellular compartments and structures, occupied by a macromolecular machine when it carries out a molecular function. There are two ways in which the gene ontology describes locations of gene products: (1) relative to cellular structures (e.g., cytoplasmic side of plasma membrane) or compartments (e.g., mitochondrion), and (2) the stable macromolecular complexes of which they are parts (e.g., the ribosome). [ http://www.neurolex.org/wiki/sao1337158144 ]

Term info

Label

cellular_component

Synonyms
  • cell or subcellular entity
  • cellular component
database cross reference
Subsets

goslim_chembl, goslim_generic, goslim_metagenomics, goslim_pir, goslim_plant, goslim_candida, goslim_yeast, goslim_aspergillus

comment

Note that, in addition to forming the root of the cellular component ontology, this term is recommended for use for the annotation of gene products whose cellular component is unknown. When this term is used for annotation, it indicates that no information was available about the cellular component of the gene product annotated as of the date the annotation was made; the evidence code "no data" (ND), is used to indicate this., Note that, in addition to forming the root of the cellular component ontology, this term is recommended for use for the annotation of gene products whose cellular component is unknown. Note that when this term is used for annotation, it indicates that no information was available about the cellular component of the gene product annotated as of the date the annotation was made; the evidence code ND, no data, is used to indicate this.

has alternative id

GO:0008372

has obo namespace

cellular_component

has related synonym

subcellular entity

id

GO:0005575

Term relations

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