AmiGO 2: Term Details for "symbiont-containing vacuole" (GO:0020003)

Accession: GO:0020003
Name: symbiont-containing vacuole
Ontology: cellular_component
Synonyms: SCV, parasitophorous vacuole, Salmonella-containing vacuole, bacterium-containing vacuole, pathogen-occupied vacuole
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: Membrane-bounded vacuole within a host cell in which a symbiont organism resides. The vacuole membrane is derived from both the host and symbiont. Source: GOC:jl, GOC:mb
Comment: Note that this term does not have a relationship to 'vacuole ; GO:0005773' because it does not fit the definition of a vacuole; the parasitophorous vacuole was so named because it resembles a vacuole in the microscope.
History: See term history for GO:0020003 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to symbiont-containing vacuole (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to symbiont-containing vacuole (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for symbiont-containing vacuole (excluding "regulates").

Include "regulates"
For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
symbiont-containing vacuole	is_a	host cell cytoplasm part (GO:0033655)
symbiont-containing vacuole	is_a	extracellular membrane-bounded organelle (GO:0065010)

subject	relation	object
symbiont-containing vacuole membrane (GO:0020005)	BFO:0000050	symbiont-containing vacuole
symbiont-containing vacuolar space (GO:0020004)	BFO:0000050	symbiont-containing vacuole

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