AmiGO 2: Term Details for "focal adhesion" (GO:0005925)

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Term Information

Accession: GO:0005925
Name: focal adhesion
Ontology: cellular_component
Synonyms: HAJ, connecting hemi-adherens junction, focal contact, hemi-adherens junction, adhesion plaque
Alternate IDs: GO:0005926, GO:0008357
Definition: A cell-substrate junction that anchors the cell to the extracellular matrix and that forms a point of termination of actin filaments. In insects focal adhesion has also been referred to as hemi-adherens junction (HAJ). Source: PMID:10419689, GOC:bc, ISBN:0815316208, PMID:1643657, PMID:8314002, PMID:19197329, PMID:12191915, PMID:26923917, PMID:15246682, ISBN:0124325653, PMID:16805308, GOC:aruk, PMID:23033047, PMID:28796323
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0005925 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to focal adhesion (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to focal adhesion (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for focal adhesion (excluding "regulates").

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CARO:0030000 biological entity
CARO:0000000 anatomical entity
UBERON:0001062 anatomical entity
CARO:0000006 material anatomical entity
CARO:0000003 connected anatomical structure
UBERON:0000465 material anatomical entity
UBERON:0000061 anatomical structure
GO:0005575 cellular_component
GO:0110165 cellular anatomical entity
GO:0030054 cell junction
GO:0070161 anchoring junction
GO:0030055 cell-substrate junction
GO:0005925 focal adhesion

Parents of focal adhesion (GO:0005925)

subject	relation	object
focal adhesion	is_a	cell-substrate junction (GO:0030055)

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Wikipedia: Focal_adhesion