AmiGO 2: Term Details for "microtubule depolymerization" (GO:0007019)

Accession: GO:0007019
Name: microtubule depolymerization
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: microtubule disassembly, microtubule shortening, microtubule catastrophe, microtubule depolymerization during nuclear congression
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The removal of tubulin heterodimers from one or both ends of a microtubule. Source: ISBN:0815316194
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0007019 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to microtubule depolymerization (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to microtubule depolymerization (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for microtubule depolymerization (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
microtubule depolymerization	is_a	microtubule polymerization or depolymerization (GO:0031109)
microtubule depolymerization	is_a	supramolecular fiber organization (GO:0097435)
microtubule depolymerization	is_a	protein depolymerization (GO:0051261)
microtubule depolymerization	RO:0002590	microtubule (GO:0005874)

subject	relation	object
positive regulation of microtubule depolymerization (GO:0031117)	RO:0002213	microtubule depolymerization
mitotic spindle microtubule depolymerization (GO:1990755)	is_a	microtubule depolymerization
cytoplasmic microtubule depolymerization (GO:0010938)	is_a	microtubule depolymerization
negative regulation of microtubule depolymerization (GO:0007026)	RO:0002212	microtubule depolymerization
astral microtubule depolymerization (GO:0060172)	is_a	microtubule depolymerization
regulation of microtubule depolymerization (GO:0031114)	RO:0002211	microtubule depolymerization
minus-end specific microtubule depolymerization (GO:0036078)	is_a	microtubule depolymerization
plus-end specific microtubule depolymerization (GO:0070462)	is_a	microtubule depolymerization

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