AmiGO 2: Term Details for "pigment granule" (GO:0048770)

Accession: GO:0048770
Name: pigment granule
Ontology: cellular_component
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: A small, subcellular membrane-bounded vesicle containing pigment and/or pigment precursor molecules. Pigment granule biogenesis is poorly understood, as pigment granules are derived from multiple sources including the endoplasmic reticulum, coated vesicles, lysosomes, and endosomes. Source: GOC:mh, GOC:jid
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0048770 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to pigment granule (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to pigment granule (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for pigment granule (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
pigment granule	is_a	cytoplasmic vesicle (GO:0031410)
pigment granule	RO:0002162	cellular organisms (NCBITaxon:131567)

subject	relation	object
melanosome (GO:0042470)	is_a	pigment granule
ciliary epithelium (UBERON:0001778)	BFO:0000051	pigment granule
iridosome (GO:0043698)	is_a	pigment granule
pigment granule membrane (GO:0090741)	RO:0002007	pigment granule
pterinosome (GO:0043700)	is_a	pigment granule
cyanosome (GO:0043701)	is_a	pigment granule
pigmented layer of retina (UBERON:0001782)	BFO:0000051	pigment granule
iris epithelium (UBERON:0002506)	BFO:0000051	pigment granule
endosome to pigment granule transport (GO:0043485)	RO:0002339	pigment granule
pigment granule localization (GO:0051875)	RO:0004009	pigment granule
leucosome (GO:0043699)	is_a	pigment granule
pigment granule organization (GO:0048753)	RO:0002592	pigment granule

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