AmiGO 2: Term Details for "microfibril" (GO:0001527)

Accession: GO:0001527
Name: microfibril
Ontology: cellular_component
Synonyms: extended fibrils, fibrillin
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: Extracellular matrix components occurring independently or along with elastin. Thought to have force-bearing functions in tendon. In addition to fibrillins, microfibrils may contain other associated proteins. Source: PMID:27026396
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0001527 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to microfibril (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to microfibril (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for microfibril (excluding "regulates").

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subject	relation	object
microfibril	is_a	supramolecular fiber (GO:0099512)
microfibril	BFO:0000050	extracellular matrix (GO:0031012)
microfibril	RO:0002162	cellular organisms (NCBITaxon:131567)

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