AmiGO 2: Term Details for "cytotoxic T cell differentiation" (GO:0045065)

Accession: GO:0045065
Name: cytotoxic T cell differentiation
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: cytotoxic T lymphocyte selection, cytotoxic T-cell selection, cytotoxic T-lymphocyte selection, cytotoxic T cell development
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The process in which a relatively unspecialized T cell acquires specialized features of a cytotoxic T cell. Source: GOC:ai
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:0045065 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to cytotoxic T cell differentiation (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to cytotoxic T cell differentiation (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for cytotoxic T cell differentiation (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
cytotoxic T cell differentiation	RO:0002315	cytotoxic T cell (CL:0000910)
cytotoxic T cell differentiation	is_a	T cell differentiation (GO:0030217)

subject	relation	object
regulation of cytotoxic T cell differentiation (GO:0045583)	RO:0002211	cytotoxic T cell differentiation
negative regulation of cytotoxic T cell differentiation (GO:0045584)	RO:0002212	cytotoxic T cell differentiation
CD8-positive, alpha-beta cytotoxic T cell differentiation (GO:0002308)	is_a	cytotoxic T cell differentiation
positive regulation of cytotoxic T cell differentiation (GO:0045585)	RO:0002213	cytotoxic T cell differentiation

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