AmiGO 2: Term Details for "gap junction" (GO:0005921)

Accession: GO:0005921
Name: gap junction
Ontology: cellular_component
Synonyms: communicating junction, gap junction macula, gap junction plaque, macula communicans, zonula communicans, electrical synapse, electrotonic synapse, intercellular gap junction channel
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A cell-cell junction composed of pannexins or innexins and connexins, two different families of channel-forming proteins. Source: PMID:22366062, GOC:mtg_muscle, Wikipedia:Gap_junction, GOC:mah, ISBN:0815332181
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0005921 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to gap junction (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to gap junction (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for gap junction (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
gap junction	RO:0002162	Eumetazoa (NCBITaxon:6072)
gap junction	is_a	cell-cell junction (GO:0005911)

subject	relation	object
gap junction assembly (GO:0016264)	RO:0002588	gap junction
gap junction-mediated intercellular transport (GO:1990349)	RO:0002608	gap junction
connexin complex (GO:0005922)	BFO:0000050	gap junction