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Accession
GO:0000932
Name
P-body
Ontology
cellular_component
Synonyms
P body, cytoplasmic mRNA processing body, cytoplasmic foci
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
A focus in the cytoplasm where mRNAs may become inactivated by decapping or some other mechanism. Protein and RNA localized to these foci are involved in mRNA degradation, nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD), translational repression, and RNA-mediated gene silencing. Source: GOC:clt, PMID:12730603
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History
See term history for GO:0000932 at QuickGO
Chem. react.
None
Subset
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Parents of P-body (GO:0000932)
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P-body [is_a relation] is_a  cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein granule (GO:0036464)
Children of P-body (GO:0000932)
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protein localization to P-body (GO:0110012) [RO:0002339 relation] RO:0002339  P-body
eif4e-cup complex (GO:1990500) [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  P-body
P-body assembly (GO:0033962) [RO:0002588 relation] RO:0002588  P-body
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