AmiGO 2: Term Details for "desmosome maintenance" (GO:0002160)

Accession: GO:0002160
Name: desmosome maintenance
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The maintenance of a desmosome. A desmosome is a patch-like intercellular junctions found in vertebrate tissues, consisting of parallel zones of two cell membranes, separated by an interspace of 25-35 nm, and having dense fibrillar plaques in the subjacent cytoplasm. Source: ISBN:0198506732, GOC:hjd
Comment: Desmosomes link two cells together; hemidesmosomes attach one cell to the extracellular matrix.
History: See term history for GO:0002160 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to desmosome maintenance (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to desmosome maintenance (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for desmosome maintenance (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
desmosome maintenance	GOREL:0012006	desmosome (GO:0030057)
desmosome maintenance	is_a	desmosome organization (GO:0002934)
desmosome maintenance	is_a	cell-cell junction maintenance (GO:0045217)

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desmosome maintenance