AmiGO 2: Term Details for "memory B cell differentiation" (GO:0002319)

Accession: GO:0002319
Name: memory B cell differentiation
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: memory B lymphocyte differentiation, memory B-cell differentiation, memory B-lymphocyte differentiation, memory B cell development
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The process in which a B cell acquires the specialized features of a memory B cell. Memory B cells are cells that can respond rapidly to antigen re-exposure by production of high-affinity antibody. Source: ISBN:0781735149, GOC:jal
Comment: Note that immunologists typically use the word 'development' to refer to cells of B or T cell lineages undergoing the process that GO describes as 'cell differentiation'.
History: See term history for GO:0002319 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to memory B cell differentiation (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to memory B cell differentiation (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for memory B cell differentiation (excluding "regulates").

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subject	relation	object
memory B cell differentiation	is_a	mature B cell differentiation involved in immune response (GO:0002313)
memory B cell differentiation	is_a	immunological memory formation process (GO:0090715)
memory B cell differentiation	RO:0002315	memory B cell (CL:0000787)

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