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Category: GOTerm
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GO Term
Description: A cellular process in which two or more cells combine together, their plasma membrane fusing, producing a single cell. In some cases, nuclei fuse, producing a polyploid cell, while in other cases, nuclei remain separate, producing a syncytium.
GO Term
Description: Extended zone of intimate apposition between two cells containing one or more types of intercellular junctions, e.g., the intercalated disk of muscle.
GO Term
Description: Any process involved in the controlled self-propelled movement of a cell that results in translocation of the cell from one place to another.
GO Term
Description: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of the peptidoglycan-based cell wall. An example of this process is found in Escherichia coli.
GO Term
Description: The formation of a cell surface protrusion, such as a lamellipodium or filopodium, at the leading edge of a migrating cell.
GO Term
Description: The translocation of the cell body forward during cell migration, mediated by tractional force on its substrate and tension in the cortical cytoskeleton. Adhesions transmit propulsive forces and serve as traction points over which the cell moves.
GO Term
Description: The region directly beneath the plasma membrane at the cell tip. The cell tip is the region at either end of the longest axis of a cylindrical or elongated cell.
GO Term
Description: Cell migration that is accomplished by extension and retraction of a pseudopodium.
GO Term
Description: The directed movement of a muscle cell towards a tendon cell in response to an external stimulus. Tendon cells, for example, produce positive guidance cues that attract muscle cells.
GO Term
Description: The directed killing of a target cell by a natural killer cell through the release of granules containing cytotoxic mediators or through the engagement of death receptors.
GO Term
Description: The series of events resulting in chemical or structural changes to existing cell walls and contribute to multidimensional cell growth.
GO Term
Description: Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of programmed cell death that occurs in the compound eye retina.
GO Term
Description: Any process that stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of programmed cell death that occurs in the compound eye retina.
GO Term
Description: The directed killing of a target cell by a leukocyte.
GO Term
Description: The cell cortex of the leading edge of a cell.
GO Term
Description: A cellular process that results in the biosynthesis of constituent macromolecules, assembly, and arrangement of constituent parts of a cell wall of the type found in Gram-negative bacteria. The cell wall is the rigid or semi-rigid envelope lying outside the cell membrane.
GO Term
Description: A cellular process that results in the biosynthesis of constituent macromolecules, assembly, and arrangement of constituent parts of a cellulose and pectin-containing cell wall. An example of this is found in Arabidopsis thaliana.
GO Term
Description: Any actin filament that is part of a cell cortex of cell tip.
GO Term
Description: The multiplication or reproduction of hepatic stellate cells, resulting in the expansion of a hepatic stellate cell population. Hepatic stellate cells are found in the perisinusoidal space of the liver, and are capable of multiple roles including storage of retinol, presentation of antigen to T cells (including CD1d-restricted NKT cells), and upon activation, production of extracellular matrix components. This cell type comprises approximately 8-15% of total cells in the liver.
GO Term
Description: The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires the specialized structural and/or functional features of a cell that will form part of the cardiac organ of an individual.
GO Term
Description: The external part of the cell wall and/or plasma membrane.
GO Term
Description: The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of a microgametophyte. The microgametophyte vegetative cell gives rise to the pollen tube.
GO Term
Description: The portion of a neuron that includes the nucleus, but excludes cell projections such as axons and dendrites.
GO Term
Description: A cell tip at which no growth takes place. For example, in fission yeast the cell end newly formed by cell division does not grow immediately upon its formation, and lacks actin cytoskeletal structures.
GO Term
Description: The multiplication or reproduction of chondrocytes by cell division, resulting in the expansion of their population. A chondrocyte is a polymorphic cell that forms cartilage.
GO Term
Description: The process of cell death in a neuron.
GO Term
Description: The process whose specific outcome is the progression of Hulle cells over time, from their formation to the mature structures. Hulle cells are specialized multinucleate cells that originate from a nest-like aggregation of hyphae during sexual development and serve as nurse cells to the developing cleistothecium, or fruiting body.
GO Term
Description: Any cell cortex that is part of a growing cell tip.
GO Term
Description: The multiplication or reproduction of acinar cells, resulting in the expansion of a cell population. An acinar cell is a secretory cell that is grouped together with other cells of the same type to form grape-shaped clusters known as acini (singular acinus).
GO Term
Description: The process in which a cell irreversibly increases in size in one [spatial] dimension or along one axis, resulting in the morphogenesis of the cell.
GO Term
Description: Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of cell morphogenesis. Cell morphogenesis is the developmental process in which the shape of a cell is generated and organized.
GO Term
Description: Programmed cell death that occurs in the developing retina.
GO Term
Description: The process that mediates the transfer of information from Purkinje cells to granule cell precursors resulting in an increase in rate of granule cell precursor cell proliferation.
GO Term
Description: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of (1->3)-beta-D-glucans, compounds composed of glucose residues linked by (1->3)-beta-D-glucosidic bonds, found in the walls of cells.
GO Term
Description: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of (1->3)-alpha-D-glucans, compounds composed of glucose residues linked by (1->3)-alpha-glucosidic bonds, found in the walls of cells.
GO Term
Description: The formation of a syncytium, a mass of cytoplasm containing several nuclei enclosed within a single plasma membrane, by the fusion of the plasma membranes of two or more individual cells.
GO Term
Description: The region at the end of the longest axis of a cylindrical or elongated cell.
GO Term
Description: The multiplication or reproduction of cells, resulting in the expansion of a cell population.
GO Term
Description: The portion of a cell bearing surface projections such as axons, dendrites, cilia, or flagella that includes the nucleus, but excludes all cell projections.
GO Term
Description: A process that is carried out at the cellular level which results in the assembly, arrangement of constituent parts, or disassembly of a cell junction. A cell junction is a specialized region of connection between two cells or between a cell and the extracellular matrix.
GO Term
Description: A rigid yet dynamic structure surrounding the plasma membrane that affords protection from stresses and contributes to cell morphogenesis, consisting of extensively cross-linked glycoproteins and carbohydrates. The glycoproteins may be modified with N- or O-linked carbohydrates, or glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchors; the polysaccharides are primarily branched glucans, including beta-linked and alpha-linked glucans, and may also include chitin and other carbohydrate polymers, but not cellulose or pectin. Enzymes involved in cell wall biosynthesis are also found in the cell wall. Note that some forms of fungi develop a capsule outside of the cell wall under certain circumstances; this is considered a separate structure.
GO Term
Description: Cell motility due to the motion of one or more eukaryotic cilia. A eukaryotic cilium is a specialized organelle that consists of a filiform extrusion of the cell surface. Each cilium is bounded by an extrusion of the cytoplasmic (plasma) membrane, and contains a regular longitudinal array of microtubules, anchored basally in a centriole.
GO Term
Description: The morphogenetic process that results in flattening of a cell as a consequence of its adhesion to a substrate.
GO Term
Description: The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of a sinoatrial (SA) node cell. SA node cells are pacemaker cells that are found in the sinoatrial node.
GO Term
Description: The commitment of cells to sinoatrial (SA) node cell fates and their capacity to differentiate into SA node cells. SA node cells are pacemaker cells that are found in the sinoatrial node.
GO Term
Description: The process whose specific outcome is the progression of a sinoatrial (SA) node cell over time, from its formation to the mature state. SA node cells are pacemaker cells that are found in the sinoatrial node.
GO Term
Description: The process of physically separating the septal cell wall material by enzymatic digestion, that occurs after daughter cells are separated by cytokinesis.
GO Term
Description: The transport of a virus between adjacent cells in a multicellular organism.
GO Term
Description: The process of protecting a cell from natural killer cell mediated cytotoxicity.
GO Term
Description: The process of causing a cell to become susceptible to natural killer cell mediated cytotoxicity.
GO Term
Description: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of cell wall glycoproteins, any cell wall protein that contains covalently bound sugar residues.
GO Term
Description: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of cell wall mannoproteins, any cell wall protein that contains covalently bound mannose residues.
GO Term
Description: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of cell wall chitin, a linear polysaccharide consisting of beta-(1->4)-linked N-acetyl-D-glucosamine residues, found in the walls of cells.
GO Term
Description: The series of events that occur during cell growth that result in chemical or structural changes to existing cell walls of the type composed chiefly of cellulose and pectin. An example of this is found in Arabidopsis thaliana.
GO Term
Description: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of beta-glucans, compounds composed of glucose residues linked by beta-D-glucosidic bonds, found in the walls of cells.
GO Term
Description: Any process in which a horizontal cell is transported to, and/or maintained in, a specific location within the inner nuclear layer (INL) of the retina. A horizontal cell is a neuron that laterally connects other neurons in the inner nuclear layer (INL) of the retina. Targeting of retinal neurons to the appropriate lamina is vital to establish the architecture of the retina.
GO Term
Description: Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of cell killing.
GO Term
Description: Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of activation.
GO Term
Description: Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of cell differentiation.
GO Term
Description: Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of cell adhesion.
GO Term
Description: Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of cell migration.
GO Term
Description: Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate, extent or direction of cell growth.
GO Term
Description: Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of cell division.
GO Term
Description: Any process that increases cell size.
GO Term
Description: The area of a motile cell closest to the direction of movement.
GO Term
Description: Generation of cells within the nervous system.
GO Term
Description: Any biological process involved in the maintenance of the steady-state number of cells within a population of cells.
GO Term
Description: The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires the specialized features of a natural killer cell.
GO Term
Description: The process in which a relatively unspecialized thymocyte acquires specialized features of a T-helper cell.
GO Term
Description: The formation of adhesions that stabilize protrusions at the leading edge of a migrating cell; involves integrin activation, clustering, and the recruitment of structural and signaling components to nascent adhesions.
GO Term
Description: The disassembly of adhesions at the front and rear of a migrating cell. At the leading edge, adhesion disassembly accompanies the formation of new protrusions; at the cell rear, it promotes tail retraction.
GO Term
Description: The attachment of a somatic follicle cell to another somatic follicle cell or to its substratum, the germline cells. An example of this is found in Drosophila melanogaster.
GO Term
Description: The orderly movement of epithelial cells during development of an open tracheal system. An example of this is found in Drosophila melanogaster.
GO Term
Description: The multiplication or reproduction of cells, resulting in the expansion of a cell population in the midbrain.
GO Term
Description: The directed movement of a hemocyte within the embryo. Hemocytes are blood cells associated with a hemocoel (the cavity containing most of the major organs of the arthropod body) which are involved in defense and clotting of hemolymph, but not involved in transport of oxygen. In Drosophila, embryonic hemocytes originate from the head mesoderm as a cluster of cells. The cluster splits into two and one group of cells crosses the amnioserosa. Both populations then spread toward the middle of the embryo and then disperse evenly throughout the embryo.
GO Term
Description: The recognition and removal of an apoptotic cell by a neighboring cell or by a phagocyte.
GO Term
Description: Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of programmed cell death that occurs in the compound eye retina.
GO Term
Description: The nucleus of the generative cell, a cell contained within the pollen grain that will divide to produce two haploid sperm cells.
GO Term
Description: Any apoptotic process in a natural killer cell, a lymphocyte that can spontaneously kill a variety of target cells without prior antigenic activation.
GO Term
Description: The multiplication or reproduction of thyroid gland epithelial cells, resulting in the expansion of the thyroid gland epithelial cell population.
GO Term
Description: Any process that activates or increases the rate or extent of cell proliferation.
GO Term
Description: A T cell apoptotic process that occurs towards the end of the expansion phase following the initial activation of mature T cells by antigen via the accumulation of pro-apoptotic gene products and decrease in anti-apoptotic gene products.
GO Term
Description: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of macromolecules that form part of a cell wall.
GO Term
Description: Any process that stops, prevents or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of substrate-dependent cell migration, cell attachment to substrate.
GO Term
Description: Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of substrate-dependent cell migration, cell attachment to substrate.
GO Term
Description: The directed orientation of natural killer cell signaling molecules and associated membrane rafts towards a chemokine gradient or a contact point with a cell displaying natural killer cell activating ligands.
GO Term
Description: The process in which precursor cell type acquires the specialized features of a hematopoietic progenitor cell, a class of cell types including myeloid progenitor cells and lymphoid progenitor cells.
GO Term
Description: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of cell wall chitin, a linear polysaccharide consisting of beta-(1->4)-linked N-acetyl-D-glucosamine residues, found in the walls of cells.
GO Term
Description: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of a polysaccharide destined to form part of a cell wall.
GO Term
Description: The negative regulation of cell adhesion process in which a neural crest cell physically separates from the rest of the neural tube.
GO Term
Description: The regulated exocytosis of secretory granules containing preformed mediators such as perforin and granzymes by a natural killer cell.
GO Term
Description: Any particle of coalesced lipids in the cytoplasm of a host cell. May include associated proteins.
GO Term
Description: The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of a hematopoietic stem cell. A stem cell is a cell that retains the ability to divide and proliferate throughout life to provide progenitor cells that can differentiate into specialized cells.
GO Term
Description: Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate, or extent of T cell tolerance induction to tumor cell.
GO Term
Description: Any process that stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of cell killing.
GO Term
Description: Any process that stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of cell activation.
GO Term
Description: Any process that stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of cell differentiation.
GO Term
Description: Any process that stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of cell migration.
GO Term
Description: Any process that stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of cell division.
GO Term
Description: Any process that stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate, extent or direction of cell growth.