--------------------------------------------------------------------------- UniProt - Swiss-Prot Protein Knowledgebase SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics; Geneva, Switzerland European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI); Hinxton, United Kingdom Protein Information Resource (PIR); Washington DC, USA --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: Controlled vocabulary of subcellular locations and membrane topologies and orientations Name: subcell.txt Release: 2024_02 of 27-Mar-2024 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This document lists the UniProtKB controlled vocabulary used for the subcellular locations (including the membrane topologies and orientations terms) in the SUBCELLULAR LOCATION lines. It provides definitions of the terms as well as other relevant information in the following format: --------- ------------------------------- ---------------------------- Line code Content Occurrence in an entry --------- ------------------------------- ---------------------------- ID Identifier (location) Once; starts an entry IT Identifier (topology) Once; starts a 'topology' entry IO Identifier (orientation) Once; starts an 'orientation' entry AC Accession (SL-xxxx) Once DE Definition Once or more SY Synonyms Optional; Once or more SL Content of subc. loc. lines Once HI Hierarchy ('is-a') Optional; Once or more HP Hierarchy ('part-of') Optional; Once or more KW Associated keyword (accession) Optional; Once GO Gene ontology (GO) mapping Optional; Once or more AN Annotation note Optional; Once or more RX Interesting references Optional; Once or more WW Interesting links Optional; Once or more // Terminator Once; ends an entry AN Next free AC: SL-0553 ___________________________________________________________________________ ID A band. AC SL-0476 DE The appearance of the striated muscle is created by a pattern of DE alternating dark A bands and light I bands. A bands comprise thick DE filaments of myosin and proteins that bind myosin. They are bisected DE by the H zone, a paler region where the thick and the thin filaments DE do not overlap. The exact center of the A band is termed the M line. SY A-band; A line. SL Cytoplasm, myofibril, sarcomere, A band. HP Sarcomere. GO GO:0031672; A band // ID Acidocalcisome. AC SL-0002 DE The acidocalcisome is an electron-dense acidic organelle which DE contains a matrix of pyrophosphate and polyphosphates with bound DE calcium and other cations. Its limiting membrane possesses a number of DE pumps and exchangers for the uptake and release of these elements. The DE acidocalcisome does not belong to the endocytic pathway and may DE represent a branch of the secretory pathway in trypanosomatids and DE apicomplexan parasites. The acidocalcisome is possibly involved in DE polyphosphate and cation storage and in adaptation of these DE microoganisms to environmental stress. SL Acidocalcisome. GO GO:0020022; acidocalcisome RX PubMed=15738951; DOI=10.1038/nrmicro1097; // ID Acidocalcisome lumen. AC SL-0316 DE The acidocalcisome compartment bounded by the acidocalcisomal DE membrane. SY Acidocalcisomal lumen. SL Acidocalcisome lumen. HP Acidocalcisome. GO GO:0033985; acidocalcisome lumen // ID Acidocalcisome membrane. AC SL-0003 DE The membrane of an acidocalcisome. SY Acidocalcisomal membrane. SL Acidocalcisome membrane. HI Membrane. HP Acidocalcisome. HP Endomembrane system. GO GO:0033102; acidocalcisome membrane // ID Acrosome. AC SL-0007 DE The acrosome is a large lysosome-like vesicle overlying the sperm DE nucleus. This spermatid specific organelle, derived from the Golgi DE during spermatogenesis, contains both unique acrosomal enzymes and DE common enzymes associated with lysosomes in somatic cells. Only sperm DE that have undergone the acrosome reaction can fuse with egg plasma DE membrane. The acrosome reaction is characterized by multiple fusions DE of the outer acrosomal membrane with the sperm cell membrane. SY Acrosomal vesicle. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, secretory vesicle, acrosome. HI Secretory vesicle. GO GO:0001669; acrosomal vesicle // ID Acrosome inner membrane. AC SL-0004 DE The portion of the acrosomal membrane closely associated with the DE anterior region of the nuclear envelope. SY Acrosomal inner membrane; IAM; Inner acrosomal membrane. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, secretory vesicle, acrosome inner membrane. HP Acrosome membrane. GO GO:0002079; inner acrosomal membrane // ID Acrosome lumen. AC SL-0005 DE The lumen of the acrosome. SY Acrosomal lumen. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, secretory vesicle, acrosome lumen. HI Secretory vesicle lumen. HP Acrosome. GO GO:0043160; acrosomal lumen // ID Acrosome membrane. AC SL-0006 DE The membrane of the acrosome. SY Acrosomal membrane. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, secretory vesicle, acrosome membrane. HI Secretory vesicle membrane. HP Acrosome. HP Endomembrane system. GO GO:0002080; acrosomal membrane // ID Acrosome outer membrane. AC SL-0447 DE The portion of the acrosomal membrane just beneath the sperm cell DE membrane. SY Acrosomal outer membrane; Outer acrosomal membrane. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, secretory vesicle, acrosome outer membrane. HP Acrosome membrane. GO GO:0002081; outer acrosomal membrane // ID Actin patch. AC SL-0008 DE The actin patch is a highly dynamic actin structure in fungi required DE primarily for endocytosis but possibly also coupled to exocytosis. DE Actin patches are highly motile, they first assemble at sites of DE polarized cell growth and then move slowly and nondirectionally along DE the cell cortex. SY Actin cortical patch. SL Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, actin patch. HP Cytoskeleton. GO GO:0030479; actin cortical patch AN The actin patch is a specialised structure which is specific to fungi AN so this term should be used only for fungal species. // ID Adherens junction. AC SL-0009 DE The adherens junction is an adhesion complex that localizes close to DE the apical membrane in epithelial cells. These junctions join the DE actin cytoskeleton to the plasma membrane to form adhesive contacts DE between cells or between cells and extracellular matrix. AJs mediate DE both cell adhesion and signaling. SY AJ; ZA; Zonula adherens. SL Cell junction, adherens junction. HI Cell junction. GO GO:0005912; adherens junction AN Add "Cell membrane" if the protein is clearly associated with the AN membrane. // ID Aleurone grain. AC SL-0010 DE The aleurone grain (protein body), is a specialized dry vacuole where DE storage proteins accumulate in a stable form in seeds, usually in the DE endosperm. Cells containing aleurones form the aleurone layer. These DE act as a source of amino acids for various synthetic activities during DE germination, but also represent immensely important nutritional DE sources for humans and ruminants. In most seeds, the aleuron grains DE contain three morphologically distinct regions: the matrix, DE crystalloid, and globoid. SY Protein body. SL Vacuole, aleurone grain. HI Vacuole. GO GO:0033095; aleurone grain // ID Aleurone grain lumen. AC SL-0317 DE The aleurone grain compartment bounded by the aleurone grain membrane. SY Protein body lumen. SL Vacuole, aleurone grain lumen. HI Vacuole lumen. HP Aleurone grain. GO GO:0034422; aleurone grain lumen // ID Aleurone grain membrane. AC SL-0011 DE The membrane of an aleurone grain. SY Protein body membrane. SL Vacuole, aleurone grain membrane. HI Vacuole membrane. HP Aleurone grain. GO GO:0032578; aleurone grain membrane // ID Amyloplast. AC SL-0012 DE The amyloplast is a colorless plant plastid that forms and stores DE starch. Amyloplasts are found in many tissues, particularly in storage DE tissues. They are found in both photosynthetic and parasitic plants, DE i.e. even in plants that are not capable of photosynthesis. Many DE amyloplast proteins are also expressed in photosynthetic tissue. SL Plastid, amyloplast. HI Plastid. KW KW-0035 GO GO:0009501; amyloplast // ID Amyloplast inner membrane. AC SL-0013 DE The inner membrane of an amyloplast. SY Inner amyloplastic membrane. SL Plastid, amyloplast inner membrane. HI Amyloplast membrane. HI Plastid inner membrane. GO GO:0033098; amyloplast inner membrane // ID Amyloplast membrane. AC SL-0014 DE The membrane surrounding the amyloplast. Also used when it is not DE clear in which amyloplast membrane a protein is found. SL Plastid, amyloplast membrane. HI Plastid membrane. HP Amyloplast. GO GO:0033097; amyloplast membrane // ID Anammoxosome. AC SL-0491 DE The anammoxosome is a large intracytoplasmic compartment bounded by a DE single bilayer, ladderane-lipid-containing membrane present in DE bacteria that perform anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox). This DE organelle is the site of the anammox process, in which nitrite is used DE as the electron acceptor in the conversion of ammonium to dinitrogen DE (N2) gas and water. Anammox bacteria belong to the phylum DE Planctomycetes and are recognized as major players in the global DE nitrogen cycle. SL Anammoxosome. GO GO:0044222; anammoxosome // ID Anammoxosome membrane. AC SL-0492 DE The membrane of the anammoxosome, a single bilayer membrane that DE contains unusual lipids, i.e. the so-called ladderane lipids, which DE appear to be unique for anammox bacteria. SL Anammoxosome membrane. HI Membrane. HP Anammoxosome. // ID Apical cell membrane. AC SL-0015 DE The fraction of the cell membrane at the apical end of the cell, which DE faces the outside world or the lumen of the cavity. SY Apical plasma membrane. SL Apical cell membrane. HP Cell membrane. GO GO:0016324; apical plasma membrane // ID Apical lamina. AC SL-0016 DE In the sea urchin embryos the apical lamina is a fibrous meshwork that DE remains after removal of hyalin from the hyalin layer. SL Secreted, extracellular space, extracellular matrix, apical lamina. HI Extracellular matrix. GO GO:0032579; apical lamina of hyaline layer // ID Apicolateral cell membrane. AC SL-0017 DE The fraction of the cell membrane at the apical end of the lateral DE plasma membrane of the cell. SY Apicolateral plasma membrane. SL Apicolateral cell membrane. HP Cell membrane. GO GO:0016327; apicolateral plasma membrane // ID Apicoplast. AC SL-0018 DE The apicoplast is a plastid found in some apicocomplexan parasites DE which is a non-photosynthetic plastid relict. Apicoplasts do not DE contain thylakoids; it is not yet clear if they contain internal DE membranes. SY Golgi-adjunct organelle; Thick-walled organelle. SL Plastid, apicoplast. HI Plastid. KW KW-0933 GO GO:0020011; apicoplast // ID Apoplast. AC SL-0019 DE The apoplast is the "non-living" extracellular space that surrounds DE the symplast. It consists of cell walls and spaces between cells. DE Water and solutes can move freely in this framework, except at the DE endodermis in roots and stems where the apoplastic flow of ions is DE interrupted by the Casparian strip, forcing water to flow to symplast. SL Secreted, extracellular space, apoplast. HI Extracellular space. KW KW-0052 GO GO:0048046; apoplast // ID Archaeal flagellum. AC SL-0306 DE The archaellum (archaeal flagellum) is the motility apparatus of DE archaea which propels the cell through liquid medium. The archaellum DE is the functional equivalent of the bacterial flagellum but its DE architecture, composition and mode of assembly is completely DE unrelated. The archaellum is thinner (10-15 nm) compared to the DE bacterial flagellum (18-24 nm). Its filament is assembled from DE archaellin subunits, which are N-glycosylated proteins. The archaellum DE is considered to be a type IV pilus-like structure. SY Archaeal flagella; Archaeal flagellar apparatus; Archaellum. SL Archaeal flagellum. KW KW-0974 GO GO:0097589; archaeal-type flagellum // ID Ascus epiplasm. AC SL-0538 DE Ascus cytoplasm that is not packaged into ascospores. SL Ascus epiplasm. GO GO:0072324; ascus epiplasm // ID Attachment organelle. AC SL-0020 DE The attachment organelle is a multifunctional polar structure found in DE several Mycoplasma species. This large and complex cell extension, DE whose predicted mass is greater than that of a vertebrate nuclear pore DE complex, is essential for adherence to host cells, is involved in DE gliding motility, and is associated with cell division. SY Terminal organelle. SL Cell projection, attachment organelle. HI Cell projection. GO GO:0033099; attachment organelle // ID Attachment organelle membrane. AC SL-0021 DE The membrane surrounding the attachment organelle. SY Terminal organelle membrane. SL Cell projection, attachment organelle membrane. HP Attachment organelle. HP Cell membrane. GO GO:0033111; attachment organelle membrane // ID Autolysosome. AC SL-0535 DE The autolysosome is a single-membrane organelle resulting from the DE fusion of a double-membrane autophagosome with a lysosome during DE macroautophagy. The outer membrane of the autophagosome fuses with the DE lysosome membrane whereas the inner membrane and the autophagic cargo DE are released into the lumen and degraded. Alternatively, the DE convergence of macroautophagy and endocytosis produces a single- DE membrane amphisome that also results in an autolysosome upon fusion DE with a lysosome. SY Degrading autophagic vacuole. SL Autolysosome. HI Autophagosome. HI Lysosome. GO GO:0044754; autolysosome // ID Autolysosome lumen. AC SL-0537 DE The autolysosome lumen is the area enclosed by the autolysosomal DE membrane. SY Degrading autophagic vacuole lumen. SL Autolysosome lumen. HP Autolysosome. GO GO:0120282; autolysosome lumen // ID Autolysosome membrane. AC SL-0536 DE The membrane surrounding the autolysosome. SL Autolysosome membrane. HI Membrane. HP Autolysosome. GO GO:0120281; autolysosome membrane // ID Autophagosome. AC SL-0023 DE The autophagosome is a double membrane vesicle involved in the DE degradation of long-lived proteins, unnecessary or damaged organelles DE as well as other cellular constituents such as lipids or DE carbohydrates. Crescent-shape isolation membranes or phagophores can DE sequester cytoplasm and organelles giving rise to autophagosomes. The DE outer membrane of the autophagosomes then fuse with vacuoles and/or DE lysosomes and the inner membrane vesicles (termed autophagic bodies) DE are released into the vacuole/lysosome lumen. These vesicles are then DE lysed and the contents are degraded by resident hydrolases. SY Autophagic vacuole. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, autophagosome. HI Cytoplasmic vesicle. GO GO:0005776; autophagosome // ID Autophagosome lumen. AC SL-0318 DE The autophagosomal compartment bounded by the autophagosomal membrane. SY Autophagic vacuolar lumen; Autophagic vacuole lumen; SY Autophagosomal lumen. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, autophagosome lumen. HI Cytoplasmic vesicle lumen. HP Autophagosome. GO GO:0034423; autophagosome lumen // ID Autophagosome membrane. AC SL-0022 DE The membrane surrounding the autophagosome. SY Autophagic vacuolar membrane; Autophagic vacuole membrane; SY Autophagosomal membrane. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, autophagosome membrane. HI Cytoplasmic vesicle membrane. HP Autophagosome. GO GO:0000421; autophagosome membrane // ID Axon. AC SL-0279 DE The axon is the long process of a neuron that conducts nerve impulses, DE usually away from the cell body to the terminals and varicosities, DE which are sites of storage and release of neurotransmitter. SY Axon shaft. SL Cell projection, axon. HI Neuron projection. GO GO:0030424; axon // ID Bacterial extracellular vesicle. AC SL-0489 DE Small membrane vesicle (< 1 um) that buds off a prokaryotic cell's DE plasma membrane, able to carry proteins, phospholipids, DE lipopolysaccharides, nucleic acids, viruses, etc. Bacterial DE extracellular vesicles are important in intercellular communication DE and pathogenesis, and can exist within host cells. SY Bacterial membrane vesicle; Membrane vesicle; Microvesicle. SL Extracellular vesicle, bacterial extracellular vesicle. HI Extracellular vesicle. GO GO:0097691; bacterial extracellular vesicle // ID Bacterial flagellum. AC SL-0307 DE The flagellum of Bacteria is a long hair-like cell surface appendage. DE The flagellar apparatus consists of the flagellar filament made of DE polymerized flagellin (the propeller), the hook-like structure near DE the cell surface (the universal joint) and the basal body (the engine) DE which is a rod and a system of rings embedded in the cell envelope. DE The basal body and the hook anchor the whip-like filament to the cell DE surface. The flagellum is a rotating structure whose switches propels DE the cell through a liquid medium. SY Bacterial flagella; Bacterial flagellar apparatus. SL Bacterial flagellum. KW KW-0975 GO GO:0009288; bacterial-type flagellum // ID Bacterial flagellum basal body. AC SL-0142 DE The basal body of a bacterial flagellum is a rod and a system of rings DE embedded in the cell envelope. Gram-negative flagella usually have an DE L ring in the plane of the lipopolysaccharide in the outer membrane, a DE periplasmic P ring in the plane of the peptidoglycan around the DE flagellar rod and a MS ring that is located within and above the DE cytoplasmic membrane. A C ring extends into the cytoplasm. The rod is DE a major component of the flagellar basal body and it spans the DE bacterial periplasm. The L and P rings are not found in Gram-positive DE bacteria. SY Bacterial flagellar basal body; Bacterial flagellar kinetosome; SY Bacterial flagellar motor. SL Bacterial flagellum basal body. HP Bacterial flagellum. GO GO:0009425; bacterial-type flagellum basal body // ID Bacterial flagellum filament. AC SL-0358 DE The bacterial flagellar filament is made of polymerized flagellin. SY Bacterial flagella filament; Bacterial flagellar filament. SL Bacterial flagellum filament. HP Bacterial flagellum. GO GO:0009420; bacterial-type flagellum filament // ID Bacterial flagellum hook. AC SL-0357 DE The hook of a bacterial flagellum connects the basal body and the DE filament and acts as a universal joint. This flexible hinge relays the DE energy generated by the motor into torque formation that is DE transferred onto the rigid filament. SY Bacterial flagella hook; Bacterial flagellar hook. SL Bacterial flagellum hook. HP Bacterial flagellum. GO GO:0009424; bacterial-type flagellum hook // ID Bacterial microcompartment. AC SL-0544 DE Bacterial microcompartments (BMC) are proteinaceous polyhedral shells DE that encapsulate enzymes. The selectively permeable organelles protect DE their contents from the cytoplasm and/or the cytoplasm from reactants DE in their interior. The best characterized BMC is the carboxysome, DE which encapsulates RuBisCO and carbonic anhydrase, and enhances DE autotrophic CO(2) fixation. Other characterized BMCs encapsulate DE enzymes involved in ethanolamine or propanediol degradation; both DE pathways make toxic intermediates. Artifical BMCs can be expressed and DE filled with cargo proteins for biotechnological uses. BMCs are found DE in many bacterial phyla; in most cases their cargo is unknown. SY Metabolosome; Polyhedral organelle. SL Bacterial microcompartment. KW KW-1283 GO GO:0031469; bacterial microcompartment // ID Barrier septum. AC SL-0454 DE The barrier septum, is a septum which spans a cell and does not allow DE exchange of organelles or cytoplasm between compartments. SL Barrier septum. HI Cell septum. GO GO:0000935; division septum // ID Basal cell membrane. AC SL-0024 DE The basal cell membrane is the fraction of the plasma membrane at the DE basal side of the cell, which faces the underlying connective tissue. SY Basal plasma membrane. SL Basal cell membrane. HP Cell membrane. GO GO:0009925; basal plasma membrane // ID Basement membrane. AC SL-0025 DE The basement membrane is a highly specialized extracellular matrix DE structure undelying the basal surface of cells exhibiting polarity DE (epithelial, endothelial and mesothelial cells) and surrounding DE certain cell types such as muscle, adipose and Schwann cells. SL Secreted, extracellular space, extracellular matrix, basement membrane. HI Extracellular matrix. KW KW-0084 GO GO:0005604; basement membrane // ID Basolateral cell membrane. AC SL-0026 DE The basolateral cell membrane is the fraction of the plasma membrane DE at the basolateral side of the cell, which faces adjacent cells and DE the underlying connective tissue. SY Basolateral plasma membrane. SL Basolateral cell membrane. HP Cell membrane. GO GO:0016323; basolateral plasma membrane // ID Bleb. AC SL-0472 DE These cellular membrane protrusions are the result of actomyosin DE contractions of the cortex, which cause either transient detachment of DE the cell membrane from the actin cortex or a rupture in the actin DE cortex. Then, cytosol streams out of the cell body and inflates the DE newly formed bleb. Once expansion slows, an actin cortex is DE reconstituted. Retraction is powered by myosin motor proteins. DE Blebbing is a common feature of cell physiology during cell movement, DE cytokinesis, cell spreading and apoptosis. SL Cell projection, bleb. HI Cell projection. GO GO:0032059; bleb RX PubMed=17318224; DOI=10.1038/nrm2122; // ID Bud. AC SL-0027 DE A growing bud is an asexual reproductive structure, as in yeast or a DE hydra, that consists of an outgrowth capable of developing into a new DE individual. SY Growing bud. SL Bud. GO GO:0005933; cellular bud // ID Bud membrane. AC SL-0028 DE The membrane surrounding a bud. SY Cellular bud membrane. SL Bud membrane. HP Bud. HP Cell membrane. GO GO:0033101; cellular bud membrane // ID Bud neck. AC SL-0029 DE The bud neck is a constriction between the mother and the daughter DE cell (bud) in an organism that reproduces by budding. This structure DE comprises the septin ring, an hourglass-shaped collar around the DE mother-bud neck, which splits into two rings flanking the division DE plane at cytokinesis and that acts as a diffusion barrier to maintain DE polarity factors in the bud and as a scaffold to recruit actomyosin DE contractile ring components. SY Cellular bud neck. SL Bud neck. HP Bud. GO GO:0005935; cellular bud neck // ID Bud tip. AC SL-0030 DE The bud tip is the distal tip of the bud opposite to the site of DE attachment to the mother cell. SY Cellular bud tip. SL Bud tip. HP Bud. GO GO:0005934; cellular bud tip // ID Cajal body. AC SL-0031 DE The nuclear Cajal bodies (CBs) are small subnuclear membraneless DE organelles present either free in the nucleoplasm and/or physically DE associated to specific regions of chromatin. CBs contain newly DE assembled small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) and small DE nucleolar ribonucleoproteins (snoRNPs) particles, which are involved DE in pre-mRNA splicing and in ribosomal RNA processing, respectively. DE Mammalian nucleus in interphase, show 2-6 CBs, as irregular, punctuate DE structures, which vary in size and shape and which are often DE juxtaposed to nucleoli. At the electronic-microscope level, they are DE composed of heterogeneous mixture of electro-dense particles with DE diameters ranging from 20-25 nm and are called coiled body. Structures DE similar to CBs have been identified in the amphibian oocyte nucleus DE (called sphere organelles) and in insect (called endobodies). CBs are DE motile and dynamic structures. Both their protein and RNA-protein DE components can cycle continuously between CBs and other nuclear DE locations depending on the transcriptional state of the cell. SY Cajal bodies; Coiled body; Endobodies; Nucleolar accessory bodies; SY Sphere organelles. SL Nucleus, Cajal body. HI Nuclear body. HP Nucleus. GO GO:0015030; Cajal body // ID Calyx. AC SL-0032 DE The calyx is a large cytoskeletal component of the perinuclear theca DE of the mammalian sperm head. SY Calyces; Cytoskeletal calyx. SL Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, perinuclear theca, calyx. HP Perinuclear theca. GO GO:0033150; cytoskeletal calyx // ID Capsule. AC SL-0033 DE The capsule is a protective structure surrounding some bacteria or DE fungi. The bacterial capsule is a layer of material, usually DE polysaccharide, attached to the cell wall possibly via covalent DE attachments to either phospholipid or lipid-A molecules. It has DE several functions: promote bacterial adhesion to surfaces or DE interaction with other organisms; act as a permeability barrier, as a DE defense mechanism against phagocytosis and/or as a nutrient reserve. DE Among pathogens, capsule formation often correlates with DE pathogenicity. The fungal capsule is an extracellular layer which lies DE outside the cell wall and it is usually composed of polysaccharides. DE It protects the cell from different environmental dangers such as DE phagocytosis, dessication, etc. SL Secreted, capsule. HP Cell envelope. HP Secreted. GO GO:0042603; capsule // ID Carboxysome. AC SL-0034 DE Carboxysomes are bacterial microcompartments in which ribulose DE bisphosphate carboxylase (RuBisCO)-mediated CO(2) fixation occurs. The DE cytoplasmic polyhedral inclusion bodies are surrounded by a thin DE protein coat. They enhance autotrophic CO(2) fixation in air by DE increasing the CO(2) concentration around RuBisCO, thus reducing its DE reaction with O(2), a competing substrate. They contain carbonic DE anhydrase as part of the CO(2) concentration mechanism. SL Carboxysome. HI Bacterial microcompartment. KW KW-1282 GO GO:0031470; carboxysome // ID Caveola. AC SL-0035 DE The caveola is a small (apparently) uncoated pit mostly found in the DE cell membrane of many highly differentiated mammalian cells, such as DE adipocytes, endothelial cells and muscle cells. These flask-shaped DE invaginations are defined by the presence of caveolins and contains a DE subset of lipid-raft components, including cholesterol and DE sphingolipids. Caveolae each comprise a caveolar bulb with a diameter DE of 60-80 nm, connected to an opening of fairly constant diameter. DE Caveolae might exists as single pits or can form a cluster of caveolae DE with non-caveolar membrane between the pits. In many tissues, and DE particularly in adipocytes, multiple caveolae are arranged around a DE central vacuolar domain. In developing muscle fibres, multiple DE caveolae are connected by a single neck to the cell membrane, DE producing large chains of interconnected caveolae. Another structural DE feature of caveolae in certain endothelia is the presence of a DE stomatal diaphragm, which consists of a central density and radial DE spikes, in the neck of the caveolae. Mature caveolae might be DE assembled in the Golgi apparatus. Caveolae can flatten out into the DE cell membrane, thereby loosing their caveolar identity. SY Caveolae; Membrane microdomain; Plasmalemmal vesicle. SL Membrane, caveola. HP Endomembrane system. GO GO:0005901; caveola RX PubMed=17318224; DOI=10.1038/nrm2122; // ID Cell cortex. AC SL-0138 DE The cell cortex is the cytoplasmic region under the cell membrane. SL Cytoplasm, cell cortex. HP Cytoplasm. GO GO:0005938; cell cortex // ID Cell envelope. AC SL-0036 DE The cell envelope comprises the cell membrane, the cell wall and an DE outer membrane if present. In bacteria with 1 membrane (Gram-positive) DE the cell envelope consists of the cytoplasmic membrane, cell wall and DE capsule. In bacteria with 2 membranes (Gram-negative) the envelope DE consists of the cytoplasmic membrane, cell wall, periplasmic space, DE outer membrane and capsule. The archaeal cell envelope generally DE consists of single membrane covered by a surface layer (S-layer). DE Ignicoccus species exceptionally have an outer membrane which encloses DE a large periplasmic space. Extreme thermophiles and acidophiles have DE tetraether type glycerophospholipids with C40 isoprenoid chains. The DE yeast cell envelope is a protecting capsule which consists of the DE cytoplasmic membrane, the periplasmic space, and the cell wall. SY Envelope. SL Cell envelope. GO GO:0031975; envelope AN Try to use a child/narrower/more specific term instead WW http://www.cf.ac.uk/biosi/staff/ehrmann/tools/ecce/ecce.htm // ID Cell inner membrane. AC SL-0037 DE The prokaryotic inner cell membrane is the selectively permeable DE membrane which separates the cytoplasm from the periplasm in DE prokaryotes with 2 membranes. SY Cytoplasmic membrane; Inner membrane; Plasma membrane. SL Cell inner membrane. HI Cell membrane. KW KW-0997 GO GO:0005886; plasma membrane // ID Cell junction. AC SL-0038 DE The cell junction is a cell-cell or cell-extracellular matrix contact DE within a tissue of a multicellular organism, especially abundant in DE epithelia. In vertebrates, there are three major types of cell DE junctions: anchoring junctions (e.g. adherens junctions), DE communicating junctions (e.g. gap junctions) and occluding junctions DE (e.g. tight junctions). SL Cell junction. KW KW-0965 GO GO:0070161; anchoring junction AN Add "Cell membrane" if the protein is clearly associated with the AN membrane. WW https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26857/ // ID Cell membrane. AC SL-0039 DE The cell membrane is the selectively permeable membrane which DE separates the cytoplasm from its surroundings. Known as the cell inner DE membrane in prokaryotes with 2 membranes. SY Cytoplasmic membrane; Plasmalemma; Plasma membrane. SL Cell membrane. HI Membrane. HP Cell envelope. HP Endomembrane system. KW KW-1003 GO GO:0005886; plasma membrane // ID Cell outer membrane. AC SL-0040 DE The prokaryotic outer cell membrane is the selectively permeable DE membrane which separates the prokaryotic periplasm from its cell DE surroundings. Traditionally only Gram-negative bacteria were thought DE of as having an outer membrane, but recent work has shown some DE Actinobacteria, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis, as well as at DE least 1 archaea (Ignicoccus hospitalis) have a cell outer membrane. SY Outer membrane. SL Cell outer membrane. HI Membrane. KW KW-0998 GO GO:0009279; cell outer membrane // ID Cell projection. AC SL-0280 DE A cell projection is a cell protrusion such as pseudopodium, DE filopodium, lamellipodium, growth cone, flagellum, acrosome, axon, or DE bacterial comet tail. These membrane-cytoskeleton-coupled processes DE are involved in many biological functions, such as cell motility, DE cancer-cell invasion, endocytosis, phagocytosis, exocytosis, pathogen DE infection, neurite extension and cytokinesis. SY Cell protrusion. SL Cell projection. KW KW-0966 GO GO:0042995; cell projection // ID Cell septum. AC SL-0455 DE A structure composed of peptidoglycan and often chitin in addition to DE other materials. It usually forms perpendicular to the long axis of a DE cell or hypha and grows centripetally from the cell wall to the center DE of the cell and often functions in the compartmentalization of a cell DE into two daughter cells. SL Cell septum. GO GO:0030428; cell septum // ID Cell surface. AC SL-0310 DE The outermost side of the cell. SL Cell surface. GO GO:0009986; cell surface AN Try to use a child/narrower/more specific term instead // ID Cell tip. AC SL-0456 DE The region at either end of the longest axis of a cylindrical or DE elongated cell, where polarized growth may occur. SL Cell tip. GO GO:0051286; cell tip // ID Cell wall. AC SL-0041 DE The complex and rigid layer surrounding the cell. Cell walls are found DE in bacteria, archaea, fungi, plants, and algae. The cell wall DE envelopes the inner or plasma membrane in all bacteria and is DE surrounded by the outer membrane in bacteria with 2 membranes (Gram- DE negative). Bacterial cell walls contain peptidoglycan while those of DE archaea are not made of peptidoglycan, but some archaea may contain DE pseudopeptidoglycan, which is composed of N-acetyltalosaminuronic DE acid, instead of N-acetyl muramic acid in peptidoglycan. The plant DE cell wall is made of fibrils of cellulose embedded in a matrix of DE several other kinds of polymers such as pectin and lignin. Algal cell DE walls are usually composed of cellulose, glycoproteins, sporopollenin, DE calcium and various polysaccharides such as manosyl, xylanes, alginic DE acid. Diatom cell walls (or frustules) contain silica. The cell wall DE plays a role in cell shape, cell stability and development, and DE protection against environmental dangers. SL Secreted, cell wall. HP Cell envelope. HP Secreted. KW KW-0134 GO GO:0005618; cell wall // ID Cellular chromatophore membrane. AC SL-0042 DE The cellular chromatophore membrane is the plasma-membrane derived DE internal, photosynthetic membrane found in the cytoplasm in purple DE photosynthetic bacteria. They contain the reaction centers, antennae DE complexes, cytochrome bc1 complex and the F(0)F(1)-ATPase. SY Chromatophore membrane. SL Cellular chromatophore membrane. HI Membrane. HP Endomembrane system. GO GO:0042717; plasma membrane-derived chromatophore membrane // ID Cellular thylakoid. AC SL-0043 DE A bacterial thylakoid membrane usually formed by extensive DE invaginations of the cell inner (plasma) membrane. In cyanobacteria DE thylakoids house the photosynthetic machinery and pigments. In DE Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 the thylakoid membranes are DE physically discontinuous from the plasma membrane, and thus represent DE bona fide intracellular organelles. SY Bacterial thylakoid. SL Cellular thylakoid. HI Thylakoid. GO GO:0030075; bacterial thylakoid // ID Cellular thylakoid lumen. AC SL-0044 DE The lumen of the cellular thylakoid. SL Cellular thylakoid lumen. HP Cellular thylakoid. GO GO:0031979; plasma membrane-derived thylakoid lumen // ID Cellular thylakoid membrane. AC SL-0045 DE The membrane of the cellular thylakoid. SL Cellular thylakoid membrane. HI Membrane. HP Cellular thylakoid. HP Endomembrane system. GO GO:0031676; plasma membrane-derived thylakoid membrane // ID Centriolar satellite. AC SL-0485 DE Centriolar satellites are nonmembranous, electron-dense and spherical DE cytoplasmic granules of about 70-100 nm in diameter, occurring around DE centrosomes in most vertebrate cell types. They contain a number of DE centrosomal proteins. Centriolar satellites have the ability to move DE along microtubules, toward their minus ends, i.e. toward centrosomes. DE Their number increase during interphase and decrease during mitosis. SY Massule; satellites. SL Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, microtubule organizing center, centrosome, centriolar satellite. HP Centrosome. GO GO:0034451; centriolar satellite // ID Centriole. AC SL-0046 DE The centriole is a barrel-shaped microtubule-based structure. A pair DE of centrioles, embedded in the so-called pericentriolar material, DE constitute the centrosome, a microtubule organizing center of an DE eukaryotic cell. Centrioles are barrel-shaped microtubule-based DE structures organized in a 9-fold radial symmetry. Centriolar DE microtubule arrays usually consist of triplet microtubules, although DE doublets or singlets are present in some species. Centrioles are DE structurally related to (and often interconvertible with) basal DE bodies, the organelles required for the assembly of a cilium or DE flagellum. SL Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, microtubule organizing center, centrosome, centriole. HP Centrosome. GO GO:0005814; centriole // ID Centromere. AC SL-0047 DE The centromere is a region of replicated eukaryotic chromosomes where DE the two chromatids are joined together. SY Chromosome, pericentric region. SL Chromosome, centromere. HP Chromosome. KW KW-0137 GO GO:0000775; chromosome, centromeric region // ID Centrosome. AC SL-0048 DE The centrosome is a microtubule organizing center (MTOC) responsible DE for the nucleation and organisation of microtubules. It is composed DE of two orthogonally arranged centrioles, each one having a barrel DE shaped microtubule structure, and their surrounding pericentriolar DE material (PCM). SL Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, microtubule organizing center, centrosome. HP Microtubule organizing center. GO GO:0005813; centrosome // ID Chloroplast. AC SL-0049 DE The most common form of plastid, the chloroplast is a photosynthetic DE organelle found in all photosynthetic eukaryotes except DE glaucocystophyte algae (where it is called a cyanelle) and Paulinella DE species (where it is called an organellar chromatophore). In green DE (photosynthetic) tissue they house the machinery necessary for pigment DE biosynthesis, amino acid synthesis, lipid metabolism etc, as well as DE the machinery for photosynthesis and CO(2) fixation. They are DE surrounded by between 2 and 4 membranes and contain thylakoids in DE green tissue. SL Plastid, chloroplast. HI Plastid. KW KW-0150 GO GO:0009507; chloroplast // ID Chloroplast envelope. AC SL-0050 DE The envelope of a chloroplast comprises the inner and outer DE chloroplast membrane including the intermembrane space. SY Chloroplastic envelope. SL Plastid, chloroplast envelope. HI Plastid envelope. HP Chloroplast. GO GO:0009941; chloroplast envelope // ID Chloroplast inner membrane. AC SL-0051 DE The inner membrane of a chloroplast is the membrane which separates DE the chloroplast stroma from the intermembrane space. SY Chloroplastic inner membrane. SL Plastid, chloroplast inner membrane. HI Chloroplast membrane. HI Plastid inner membrane. GO GO:0009706; chloroplast inner membrane // ID Chloroplast intermembrane space. AC SL-0052 DE The intermembrane space between the inner and the outer chloroplast DE membranes. SY Chloroplastic intermembrane space. SL Plastid, chloroplast intermembrane space. HI Plastid intermembrane space. HP Chloroplast envelope. GO GO:0031972; chloroplast intermembrane space // ID Chloroplast membrane. AC SL-0053 DE The membrane surrounding a chloroplast. Also used when it is not clear DE in which chloroplast membrane (outer membrane, inner membrane or DE thylakoid) a protein is found. SY Chloroplastic membrane. SL Plastid, chloroplast membrane. HI Plastid membrane. HP Chloroplast envelope. GO GO:0031969; chloroplast membrane // ID Chloroplast nucleoid. AC SL-0139 DE The chloroplast nucleoid is the chloroplastic pseudocompartment formed DE by the chromatin-dense area. This region, which is functionally DE equivalent to the eukaryotic nucleus, is not surrounded by a membrane. SY Chloroplastic nucleoid. SL Plastid, chloroplast stroma, chloroplast nucleoid. HP Chloroplast stroma. GO GO:0042644; chloroplast nucleoid // ID Chloroplast outer membrane. AC SL-0054 DE The outer membrane of a chloroplast is the chloroplast membrane facing DE the cytoplasm. SY Chloroplastic outer membrane. SL Plastid, chloroplast outer membrane. HI Chloroplast membrane. HI Plastid outer membrane. GO GO:0009707; chloroplast outer membrane // ID Chloroplast stroma. AC SL-0055 DE The internal space enclosed by the chloroplast double membrane but DE excluding the thylakoid space. This space, filled with a colorless DE hydrophilic matrix, contains DNA, ribosomes and some temporary DE products of photosynthesis. SY Chloroplastic stroma. SL Plastid, chloroplast stroma. HI Plastid stroma. HP Chloroplast. GO GO:0009570; chloroplast stroma // ID Chloroplast thylakoid. AC SL-0056 DE The thylakoid of a chloroplast is an internal system of interconnected DE membranes, that carry out the light reactions of photosynthesis. They DE are arranged into stacked and unstacked regions called grana and DE stroma thylakoids, respectively, that are differentially enriched in DE photosystem I and II complexes. Although extensive, the thylakoid DE network in an individual chloroplast is thought to comprise a single DE lumenal compartment. SL Plastid, chloroplast thylakoid. HI Plastid thylakoid. HP Chloroplast. GO GO:0009534; chloroplast thylakoid // ID Chloroplast thylakoid lumen. AC SL-0057 DE The chloroplast thylakoid lumen is the chloroplast compartment bounded DE by the thylakoid membranes. SL Plastid, chloroplast thylakoid lumen. HI Plastid thylakoid lumen. HP Chloroplast thylakoid. GO GO:0009543; chloroplast thylakoid lumen // ID Chloroplast thylakoid membrane. AC SL-0058 DE The thylakoid membranes of a chloroplast is an internal system of DE interconnected membranes, that carry out the light reactions of DE photosynthesis. They are arranged into stacked and unstacked regions DE called grana and stroma thylakoids, respectively, that are DE differentially enriched in photosystem I and II complexes. Although DE extensive, the thylakoid network in an individual chloroplast is DE thought to comprise a single lumenal compartment. SL Plastid, chloroplast thylakoid membrane. HI Plastid thylakoid membrane. HP Chloroplast thylakoid. GO GO:0009535; chloroplast thylakoid membrane // ID Chlorosome. AC SL-0059 DE The chlorosome is a photosynthetic light-harvesting complex found in DE anoxygenic green bacteria. Chlorosomes are flattened ellipsoidal DE organelles appressed to the cytoplasmic face of the cell membrane. DE They typically contain highly aggregated bacteriochlorophyll c, d, or DE e (Bchl), a small amount of Bchl a, carotenoids, quinones, and DE occasionally wax esters. The chlorosome envelope of green sulfur DE bacteria is an asymmetric membrane containing galactolipids with the DE galactosyl moieties exposed on the outer surface. The farnesyl tails DE of the BChl molecules within the chlorosome probably comprise the DE inner leaflet of this membrane. SL Chlorosome. KW KW-0151 GO GO:0046858; chlorosome RX PubMed=16866355; DOI=10.1021/bi060776y; // ID Chlorosome envelope. AC SL-0060 DE The chlorosome envelope of green sulfur bacteria is an asymmetric DE membrane containing galactolipids with the galactosyl moieties exposed DE on the outer surface. The farnesyl tails of the BChl c molecules DE within the chlorosome probably comprise the inner leaflet of this DE membrane. SY Chlorosomal envelope. SL Chlorosome, chlorosome envelope. HP Chlorosome. GO GO:0033105; chlorosome envelope // ID Chromaffin granule. AC SL-0061 DE A chromaffin granule is a specialized secretory vesicle characteristic DE of chromaffin cells. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, secretory vesicle, chromaffin granule. HI Secretory vesicle. GO GO:0042583; chromaffin granule // ID Chromaffin granule lumen. AC SL-0349 DE The chromaffin granule comparment bounded by the chromaffin granule DE membrane. SY Chromaffin granular lumen. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, secretory vesicle, chromaffin granule lumen. HI Secretory vesicle lumen. HP Chromaffin granule. GO GO:0034466; chromaffin granule lumen // ID Chromaffin granule membrane. AC SL-0062 DE The chromaffin granule membrane is the membrane surrounding a DE chromaffin granule, a specialized secretory vesicle characteristic of DE chromaffin cells. SY Chromaffin granular membrane. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, secretory vesicle, chromaffin granule membrane. HI Secretory vesicle membrane. HP Chromaffin granule. GO GO:0042584; chromaffin granule membrane // ID Chromoplast. AC SL-0063 DE A chromoplast is a plastid containing pigments other than chlorophyll. DE Found in flower, petals and fruit. SL Plastid, chromoplast. HI Plastid. GO GO:0009509; chromoplast // ID Chromoplast membrane. AC SL-0064 DE The membrane surrounding the chromoplast. Also used when it is not DE clear in which chromoplast membrane (outer membrane, inner membrane or DE thylakoid) a protein is found. SY Chromoplastic membrane. SL Plastid, chromoplast membrane. HI Plastid membrane. HP Chromoplast. GO GO:0046862; chromoplast membrane // ID Chromoplast stroma. AC SL-0065 DE The chromoplast stroma is the space enclosed by the chromoplast double DE membrane but excluding the photosynthetic material. The chromoplast is DE a plastid containing pigments other than chlorophyll. SY Chromoplastic stroma. SL Plastid, chromoplast stroma. HP Chromoplast. GO GO:0009575; chromoplast stroma // ID Chromosome. AC SL-0468 DE An organized structure composed of a single very long molecule of DE coiled DNA and associated proteins (e.g. histones) that carries DE hereditary information. SY Chromoplastic stroma. SL Chromosome. KW KW-0158 GO GO:0005694; chromosome // ID Cilium. AC SL-0066 DE The cilium is a cell surface projection found at the surface of a DE large proportion of eukaryotic cells. The two basic types of cilia, DE motile (alternatively named flagella) and non-motile, collectively DE perform a wide variety of functions broadly encompassing cell/fluid DE movement and sensory perception. Their most prominent structural DE component is the axoneme which consists of nine doublet microtubules, DE with all motile cilia - except those at the embryonic node DE - containing an additional central pair of microtubules. The axonemal DE microtubules of all cilia nucleate and extend from a basal body, a DE centriolar structure most often composed of a radial array of nine DE triplet microtubules. In most cells, basal bodies associate with cell DE membranes and cilia are assembled as 'extracellular' membrane-enclosed DE compartments. SY Cilia. SL Cell projection, cilium. HI Cell projection. GO GO:0005929; cilium // ID Cilium axoneme. AC SL-0304 DE The cilium axoneme is the most prominent structural component of the DE cilium. It consists of nine doublet microtubules, with all motile DE cilia - except those at the embryonic node - containing an additional DE central pair of microtubules. The axonemal microtubules of all cilia DE nucleate and extend from a basal body, a centriolar structure most DE often composed of a radial array of nine triplet microtubules. In most DE cells, basal bodies associate with cell membranes and cilia are DE assembled as 'extracellular' membrane-enclosed compartments. SY Ciliary axoneme. SL Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, cilium axoneme. HP Cilium. HP Cytoskeleton. // ID Cilium basal body. AC SL-0087 DE The basal body is a barrel-shaped microtubule-based structure required DE for the formation of cilia. Basal bodies, structuraly related to and DE often interconvertible with centrioles, serves as a nucleation site DE for axoneme growth. SY Ciliary basal body; Ciliary kinetosome; Cilium kinetosome. SL Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, cilium basal body. HP Cilium. HP Cytoskeleton. // ID Cilium membrane. AC SL-0305 DE The portion of the cell membrane surrounding the cilium. SY Ciliary membrane. SL Cell projection, cilium membrane. HP Cell membrane. HP Cilium. GO GO:0060170; ciliary membrane // ID cis-Golgi network. AC SL-0067 DE The cis-Golgi network is an extensive tubulovesicular network bound to DE the cis face of the Golgi stack and which function is to receive DE process the biosynthetic output from the ER. SY CGN; cis-Golgi; cis-Golgi complex; Golgi cis-face. SL Golgi apparatus, cis-Golgi network. HP Golgi apparatus. GO GO:0005801; cis-Golgi network AN The CGN is not the cis cisternae of the Golgi stack. Compartment AN specific marker: GOLGA2/GM130. // ID cis-Golgi network membrane. AC SL-0068 DE The lipid bilayer surrounding any of the compartments that make up the DE cis-Golgi network. SY CGN membrane; cis-Golgi complex membrane; cis-Golgi membrane; SY Golgi cis-face membrane. SL Golgi apparatus, cis-Golgi network membrane. HI Golgi apparatus membrane. HP cis-Golgi network. GO GO:0033106; cis-Golgi network membrane // ID Clathrin-coated pit. AC SL-0069 DE Coated pits are regions of the cell membrane specialized in receptor- DE mediated endocytosis. Their cytoplasmic surface is coated with a DE bristlelike structure made of clathrin. During the first steps of DE endocytosis, clathrin-coated pits are internalized to form clathrin- DE coated vesicles which transport proteins from organelle to organelle. SL Membrane, clathrin-coated pit. HI Coated pit. GO GO:0005905; clathrin-coated pit // ID Clathrin-coated vesicle. AC SL-0070 DE Clathrin coated vesicles (CCVs) mediate the vesicular transport of DE cargo such as proteins between organelles in the post-Golgi network DE connecting the trans-Golgi network, endosomes, lysosomes and the cell DE membrane. CCVs that bud from the cell membrane reveal a striking DE polyhedral pattern reminiscent of a fullerene which arises from the DE outermost protein in the coat, clathrin. Clathrin assembles from DE three-legged individual components called triskelions to form a DE polygonal lattice around the vesicle. Clathrin is a large DE heterohexameric protein complex composed of three heavy chains and DE three light chains. Clathrin molecules self-assemble together to make DE a spherical clathrin lattice structure, a polyhedron made of regular DE pentagons and hexagons. The clathrin lattice serves as a mechanical DE scaffold but is itself unable to bind directly to membrane components. DE The connection of the clathrin scaffold to the membrane is mediated by DE clathrin adaptors, which can bind directly to both the clathrin DE lattice and to the lipid and protein components of membranes. DE Clathrin-associated adaptor protein (AP) complexes are a DE stoichiometric coat component of CCVs alongside clathrin itself, and DE are considered a major clathrin adaptor contributing the CCV DE formation. SY CCV. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, clathrin-coated vesicle. HI Cytoplasmic vesicle. GO GO:0030136; clathrin-coated vesicle // ID Clathrin-coated vesicle lumen. AC SL-0319 DE The clathrin-coated vesicle compartment bounded by the clathrin-coated DE vesicle membrane. SY Clathrin-coated vesicular lumen. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, clathrin-coated vesicle lumen. HI Cytoplasmic vesicle lumen. HP Clathrin-coated vesicle. // ID Clathrin-coated vesicle membrane. AC SL-0071 DE The membrane surrounding a clathrin-coated vesicle (CCV). CCVs mediate DE the vesicular transport of cargo such as proteins between organelles DE in the post-Golgi network connecting the trans-Golgi network, DE endosomes, lysosomes and the cell membrane. CCVs that bud from the DE cell membrane reveal a striking polyhedral pattern reminiscent of a DE fullerene which arises from the outermost protein in the coat, DE clathrin. Clathrin assembles from three-legged individual components DE called triskelions to form a polygonal lattice around the vesicle. DE Clathrin is a large heterohexameric protein complex composed of three DE heavy chains and three light chains. Clathrin molecules self-assemble DE together to make a spherical clathrin lattice structure, a polyhedron DE made of regular pentagons and hexagons. The clathrin lattice serves as DE a mechanical scaffold but is itself unable to bind directly to DE membrane components. The connection of the clathrin scaffold to the DE membrane is mediated by clathrin adaptors, which can bind directly to DE both the clathrin lattice and to the lipid and protein components of DE membranes. Clathrin-associated adaptor protein (AP) complexes are a DE stoichiometric coat component of CCVs alongside clathrin itself, and DE are considered a major clathrin adaptor contributing the CCV DE formation. SY Clathrin-coated vesicular membrane. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, clathrin-coated vesicle membrane. HI Cytoplasmic vesicle membrane. HP Clathrin-coated vesicle. GO GO:0030665; clathrin-coated vesicle membrane // ID Cleavage furrow. AC SL-0467 DE In fungal, amoeboid and animal cells, during the cytokinesis at the DE end of cell division, a cleavage furrow forms in the plasma membrane. DE A contractile ring containing actin and myosin is assembled at the DE selected site of the future cleavage furrow. Ring contraction produces DE the force to constrict the cleavage furrow and the daughter cells DE separate by membrane fusion. SL Cleavage furrow. GO GO:0032154; cleavage furrow // ID Coated pit. AC SL-0072 DE Coated pits are regions of the donor membrane where the assembly of DE the vesicle coat take place. The coat assembles from soluble protomers DE such as coat protein complex-I and coat protein complex-II. The DE components of the coat often define the intracellular sorting station, DE and contribute to both membrane deformation and local movement of the DE resulting transport intermediate following scission. During the first DE steps of the vesicle-mediated membrane transport, coated pits are DE internalized to form coated vesicles which transport proteins between DE distinct membrane-bound organelles. SL Membrane, coated pit. HP Endomembrane system. KW KW-0168 // ID Contractile vacuole. AC SL-0073 DE A contractile vacuole (CV) complex is a membrane-bound osmoregulatory DE organelle of fresh water and soil amoebae and protozoa which DE segregates excess cytosolic water, acquired osmotically, and expel it DE to the cell exterior, so that the cytosolic osmolarity is kept DE constant under a given osmotic condition. Depending on the organism, DE the CV complex (CVC) shows different degrees of specialization of its DE tubular and vesicular elements. In the most elaborate CVCs of certain DE ciliates, e.g. Paramecium, a central vacuole, the contractile vacuole DE or cisterna, is surrounded by radially oriented ampullae or radial DE arms. These ampullae are connected to a network of channels. Excess DE cytosolic water, acquired osmotically, is segregated by the radial DE arms and enters the vacuole, so that the vacuole swells (the fluid- DE filling phase). The vacuole then rounds (the rounding phase) and the DE radial arms sever from the vacuole. The vacuole membrane then fuses DE with the plasma membrane at the pore region and the pore opens. The DE vacuole shrinks as its fluid is discharged through the pore (the DE fluid-discharging phase). The pore closes when the fluid has been DE discharged. The radial arms then reattach to the vacuole, so that the DE vacuole swells again as the fluid enters from the arms (the next DE fluid-filling phase). SY Contracile vacuole complex; CV; CVC. SL Contractile vacuole. HI Vacuole. GO GO:0000331; contractile vacuole // ID Contractile vacuole lumen. AC SL-0320 DE The contractile vacuole compartment bounded by the contractile vacuole DE membrane. SY Contractile vacuolar lumen. SL Contractile vacuole lumen. HI Vacuole lumen. HP Contractile vacuole. // ID Contractile vacuole membrane. AC SL-0074 DE The membrane surrounding a contractile vacuole. A contractile vacuole DE (CV) complex is a membrane-bound osmoregulatory organelle of fresh DE water and soil amoebae and protozoa which segregates excess cytosolic DE water, acquired osmotically, and expel it to the cell exterior, so DE that the cytosolic osmolarity is kept constant under a given osmotic DE condition. SY Contractile vacuolar membrane. SL Contractile vacuole membrane. HI Vacuole membrane. HP Contractile vacuole. GO GO:0031164; contractile vacuolar membrane // ID COPI-coated vesicle. AC SL-0075 DE COPI-coated vesicles mediate the vesicular transport of cargo such as DE proteins. COPI-coated vesicles are believed to bud from the cis- DE cisternae of the Golgi apparatus, mediate traffic from the cis-Golgi DE back to the ER (retrograde), and govern the flow pattern of materials DE within the Golgi stack. COPI is composed of the coatomer, which is a DE seven-subunit protein complex that participates in the formation of DE Golgi-derived coated vesicles. Evidence has also been presented for DE anterograde intra-Golgi transport mediated by COPI in yeast and DE mammals. SY Coat protein complex I. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, COPI-coated vesicle. HI Cytoplasmic vesicle. GO GO:0030137; COPI-coated vesicle // ID COPI-coated vesicle lumen. AC SL-0321 DE The COPI-coated vesicle compartment bounded by the COPI-coated vesicle DE membrane. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, COPI-coated vesicle lumen. HI Cytoplasmic vesicle lumen. HP COPI-coated vesicle. // ID COPI-coated vesicle membrane. AC SL-0076 DE The membrane surrounding a COPI-coated vesicle. COPI-coated vesicles DE mediate the vesicular transport of cargo such as proteins. COPI-coated DE vesicles are believed to bud from the cis-cisternae of the Golgi DE apparatus, mediate traffic from the cis-Golgi back to the ER DE (retrograde), and govern the flow pattern of materials within the DE Golgi stack. COPI is composed of the coatomer, which is a seven- DE subunit protein complex that participates in the formation of Golgi- DE derived coated vesicles. Evidence has also been presented for DE anterograde intra-Golgi transport mediated by COPI in yeast and DE mammals. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, COPI-coated vesicle membrane. HI Cytoplasmic vesicle membrane. HP COPI-coated vesicle. GO GO:0030663; COPI-coated vesicle membrane // ID COPII-coated vesicle. AC SL-0077 DE COPII-coated vesicles mediate the vesicular transport of cargo such as DE proteins. COPII-coated vesicles are believed to bud from the DE endoplasmic reticulum be involved in the anterograde transport between DE the ER to Golgi and travel toward the Endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi DE intermediate compartment, where they fuse and release their contents DE (anterograde transport). The COPII coat has five main functional DE components that are highly conserved in all eukaryotic cells. SY Coat protein complexes II; ER to Golgi transport vesicle. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, COPII-coated vesicle. HI Cytoplasmic vesicle. GO GO:0030134; COPII-coated ER to Golgi transport vesicle // ID COPII-coated vesicle lumen. AC SL-0322 DE The COPII-coated vesicle compartment bounded by the COPII-coated DE vesicle membrane. SY Coat protein complexes II lumen; ER to Golgi transport vesicle lumen. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, COPII-coated vesicle lumen. HI Cytoplasmic vesicle lumen. HP COPII-coated vesicle. // ID COPII-coated vesicle membrane. AC SL-0078 DE The membrane surrounding a COPII-coated vesicle. COPII-coated vesicles DE mediate the vesicular transport of cargo such as proteins. COPII- DE coated vesicles are believed to bud from the endoplasmic reticulum be DE involved in the anterograde transport between the ER to Golgi and DE travel toward the Endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi intermediate DE compartment, where they fuse and release their contents (anterograde DE transport). The COPII coat has five main functional components that DE are highly conserved in all eukaryotic cells. SY Coat protein complexes II membrane; SY ER to Golgi transport vesicle membrane. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, COPII-coated vesicle membrane. HI Cytoplasmic vesicle membrane. HP COPII-coated vesicle. GO GO:0012507; ER to Golgi transport vesicle membrane // ID Cornified envelope. AC SL-0079 DE The cornified envelope is a structure which is formed beneath the DE plasma membrane in terminally differentiating stratified squamous DE epithelia. It provides a vital physical barrier to these tissues in DE mammals and consists of a 10 nm thick layer of highly crosslinked DE insoluble proteins. In the specialized case of the epidermis, a 5 nm DE thick layer of ceramide lipids is covalently bound to the proteins. DE These organize extracellular lipids into orderly lamellae and, DE together, the cell envelope and extracellular lipids are essential for DE effective physical and water barrier function in the skin. SL Cornified envelope. GO GO:0001533; cornified envelope // ID Cortical granule. AC SL-0541 DE Cortical granules are secretory organelles located under the cell DE membrane of unfertilized oocytes. Following fertilization, cortical DE granules fuse with the oocyte's cell membrane and release their DE contents into the extracellular matrix. This exocytosis, known as the DE cortical reaction, is involved in the prevention of polyspermy. DE Cortical granules are found in all mammals and many other vertebrates, DE as well as some invertebrates. SY Cortical vesicle. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, secretory vesicle, Cortical granule. HI Secretory vesicle. GO GO:0060473; cortical granule // ID Cvt vesicle. AC SL-0080 DE A cvt vesicle is a double membrane-layered vesicle implicated in the DE cytoplasm to vacuole targeting pathway. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, cvt vesicle. HI Cytoplasmic vesicle. GO GO:0033107; Cvt vesicle // ID Cvt vesicle lumen. AC SL-0323 DE The cvt vesicle compartment bounded by the cvt vesicle membrane. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, cvt vesicle lumen. HI Cytoplasmic vesicle lumen. HP Cvt vesicle. // ID Cvt vesicle membrane. AC SL-0081 DE The membrane surrounding a cvt vesicle. A cvt vesicle is a double DE membrane-layered vesicle implicated in the cytoplasm to vacuole DE targeting pathway. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, cvt vesicle membrane. HI Cytoplasmic vesicle membrane. HP Cvt vesicle. GO GO:0033110; Cvt vesicle membrane // ID Cyanelle. AC SL-0082 DE A cyanelle is a photosynthetic organelle of glaucocystophyte algae. DE Cyanelles are surrounded by a double membrane and, in between, a DE peptidoglycan wall. Thylakoid membrane architecture is cyanobacteria- DE like. Historically, the term cyanelle is derived from a classification DE as endosymbiotic cyanobacteria, and thus is not fully correct. SY Cyanoplast; Muroplast. SL Plastid, cyanelle. HI Plastid. KW KW-0194 GO GO:0009842; cyanelle // ID Cyanelle envelope. AC SL-0479 DE The envelope of a cyanelle comprises the inner and outer cyanelle DE membrane including the intermembrane space and the vestigal DE peptidoglycan layer. SL Plastid, cyanelle envelope. HI Plastid envelope. HP Cyanelle. GO GO:0033112; cyanelle envelope // ID Cyanelle inner membrane. AC SL-0480 DE The inner membrane of a cyanelle is the membrane which separates the DE cyanelle stroma from the intermembrane space. SL Plastid, cyanelle inner membrane. HI Cyanelle membrane. HI Plastid inner membrane. HP Cyanelle envelope. GO GO:0036012; cyanelle inner membrane // ID Cyanelle intermembrane space. AC SL-0481 DE The intermembrane space between the inner and the outer cyanelle DE membranes, it includes the vestigial peptidoglycan layer. SY Cyanelle periplasm. SL Plastid, cyanelle intermembrane space. HI Plastid intermembrane space. HP Cyanelle envelope. GO GO:0036014; cyanelle intermembrane space // ID Cyanelle membrane. AC SL-0083 DE The membrane surrounding a cyanelle, a photosynthetic organelle of DE glaucocystophyte algae. Also used when it is not clear in which DE cyanelle membrane (outer membrane, inner membrane or thylakoid) a DE protein is found. SL Plastid, cyanelle membrane. HI Plastid membrane. HP Cyanelle. GO GO:0033113; cyanelle membrane // ID Cyanelle outer membrane. AC SL-0482 DE The outer membrane of a cyanelle is the cyanelle membrane facing the DE cytoplasm. SL Plastid, cyanelle outer membrane. HI Cyanelle membrane. HI Plastid outer membrane. HP Cyanelle envelope. GO GO:0036013; cyanelle outer membrane // ID Cyanelle stroma. AC SL-0350 DE The internal space enclosed by the cyanelle double membrane but DE excluding the thylakoid space. This space, filled with a colorless DE hydrophilic matrix, contains DNA, ribosomes and some temporary DE products of photosynthesis. SL Plastid, cyanelle stroma. HI Plastid stroma. HP Cyanelle. GO GO:0034060; cyanelle stroma // ID Cyanelle thylakoid. AC SL-0277 DE The cyanelle thylakoid is an internal system of interconnected DE photosynthetic membranes resembling that of cyanobacteria found in the DE cyanelles of certain algae. SL Plastid, cyanelle thylakoid. HI Plastid thylakoid. HP Cyanelle. GO GO:0009843; cyanelle thylakoid // ID Cyanelle thylakoid lumen. AC SL-0084 DE The cyanelle thylakoid lumen is the cyanelle compartment bounded by DE the thylakoid membranes. SL Plastid, cyanelle thylakoid lumen. HI Plastid thylakoid lumen. HP Cyanelle thylakoid. GO GO:0033114; cyanelle thylakoid lumen // ID Cyanelle thylakoid membrane. AC SL-0085 DE The lipid bilayer membrane of any thylakoid within a cyanelle, a DE photosynthetic organelle of glaucocystophyte algae. SL Plastid, cyanelle thylakoid membrane. HI Plastid thylakoid membrane. HP Cyanelle thylakoid. GO GO:0033115; cyanelle thylakoid membrane // ID Cytolytic granule. AC SL-0543 DE A specialized secretory lysosome that is present in cells with DE cytolytic capability such as cytotoxic T lymphocytes and natural DE killer cells. Cytolytic granules mediate the storage and regulated DE excretion of lytic molecules for killing of target cells. SY Lytic granule, cytotoxic granule. SL Cytolytic granule. HP Lysosome. GO GO:0044194; cytolytic granule // ID Cytolytic granule lumen. AC SL-0546 DE The cytolytic granule comparment bounded by the cytolytic granule DE membrane. SL Cytolytic granule lumen. HI Lysosome lumen. HP Cytolytic granule. // ID Cytolytic granule membrane. AC SL-0547 DE The cytolytic granule membrane is the membrane surrounding a cytolytic DE granule. SL Cytolytic granule membrane. HI Lysosome membrane. HP Cytolytic granule. GO GO:0101004; cytolytic granule membrane // ID Cytoplasm. AC SL-0086 DE The cytoplasm is the content of a cell within the plasma membrane and, DE in eukaryotics cells, surrounding the nucleus. This three-dimensional, DE jelly-like lattice interconnects and supports the other solid DE structures. The cytosol (the soluble portion of the cytoplasm outside DE the organelles) is mostly composed of water and many low molecular DE weight compounds. In eukaryotes, the cytoplasm also contains a network DE of cytoplasmic filaments (cytoskeleton). SL Cytoplasm. KW KW-0963 GO GO:0005737; cytoplasm // ID Cytoplasmic granule. AC SL-0281 DE Protein found in or associated with cytoplasmic granules. SL Cytoplasmic granule. // ID Cytoplasmic granule lumen. AC SL-0324 DE The cytoplasmic granule compartment bounded by the cytoplasmic granule DE membrane. SL Cytoplasmic granule lumen. HP Cytoplasmic granule. // ID Cytoplasmic granule membrane. AC SL-0282 DE The membrane surrounding a cytoplasmic granule. SL Cytoplasmic granule membrane. HI Membrane. HP Endomembrane system. HP Cytoplasmic granule. // ID Cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein granule. AC SL-0495 DE Cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein granule is a collective term for DE distinct protein and RNA foci inside the cytoplasm, including DE processing bodies (P-bodies), stress granules, neuronal DE ribonucleoprotein granule (neuronal transport granule) and germ DE granules (germline granules). SY Cytoplasmic mRNP granule; Cytoplasmic mRNP granules; mRNP granule; SY mRNP granules. SL Cytoplasm, Cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein granule. HP Cytoplasm. GO GO:0036464; cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein granule AN The synonym "cytoplasmic body/bodies" is also used to indicate AN cytoplasmic speckles or foci. In this case, the location "Cytoplasmic AN ribonucleoprotein granule" does not apply. RX PubMed=25531407; DOI=10.4161/15476286.2014.972208; // IO Cytoplasmic side. AC SL-9910 DE Protein found mostly on the cytoplasmic side of the membrane. SL Cytoplasmic side. // ID Cytoplasmic vesicle. AC SL-0088 DE The cytoplasmic vesicles mediate vesicular transport among the DE organelles of secretory and endocytic systems. These transport DE vesicles are classified by the identity of the protein coat used in DE their formation and also by the cargo they contain, e.g. clathrin-, DE COPI-, and COPII-coated vesicles, synaptic vesicles, secretory DE vesicles, phagosomes, etc. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle. HI Vesicle. KW KW-0968 // ID Cytoplasmic vesicle lumen. AC SL-0325 DE The cytoplasmic vesicle compartment bounded by the cytoplasmic vesicle DE membrane. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle lumen. HP Cytoplasmic vesicle. GO GO:0060205; cytoplasmic vesicle lumen // ID Cytoplasmic vesicle membrane. AC SL-0089 DE The membrane surrounding a cytoplasmic vesicle. The cytoplasmic DE vesicles mediate vesicular transport among the organelles of secretory DE and endocytic systems. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle membrane. HI Membrane. HP Cytoplasmic vesicle. HP Endomembrane system. GO GO:0030659; cytoplasmic vesicle membrane // ID Cytoskeleton. AC SL-0090 DE The cytoskeleton is a dynamic three-dimensional filamentous structure DE in the cytoplasm. Its roles include maintenance of cell shape, cell DE movement (in eukaryotes), cytokinesis, and the organization of DE organelles or organelle-like structures within the cell. The DE cytoskeleton includes microfilaments (actin-like proteins), DE microtubules (tubulin-like proteins), the intermediate filaments DE (mostly in eukaryotes) and the MinD-ParA proteins, which appear to be DE unique to prokaryotes. SL Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton. HP Cytoplasm. KW KW-0206 GO GO:0005856; cytoskeleton // ID Cytosol. AC SL-0091 DE The cytosol is the unstructured aqueous phase of the cytoplasm DE excluding organelles, membranes, and insoluble cytoskeletal DE components. SL Cytoplasm, cytosol. HP Cytoplasm. GO GO:0005829; cytosol // ID Dendrite. AC SL-0283 DE The dendrite is a short and typically branched process extending from DE the cell body of a neuron that receives and integrates signals coming DE from axons of other neurons, and conveys the resulting signal to the DE body of the cell. SL Cell projection, dendrite. HI Neuron projection. GO GO:0030425; dendrite // ID Dendritic spine. AC SL-0284 DE A dendritic spine is a small, club-like cell protrusion from neuronal DE dendrites that form the postsynaptic component of most excitatory DE synapses in the brain. Spines are complex, dynamic structures that DE contain a dense array of cytoskeletal, transmembrane, and scaffolding DE molecules. Despite their modest size, most spines contain at least DE some form of smooth endoplasmic reticulum, which in the largest spines DE takes the form of a specialized organelle called the "spine DE apparatus". These cell protrusions play a critical role in synaptic DE transmission and plasticity. SY Postsynaptic dendritic spine; Spine. SL Cell projection, dendritic spine. HI Postsynapse. HP Neuron projection. GO GO:0043197; dendritic spine RX PubMed=16443821; DOI=10.1152/physiol.00042.2005; // ID Dendritic spine membrane. AC SL-0285 DE The portion of the cell membrane surrounding the dendritic spine, a DE small, club-like cell protrusion from neuronal dendrites that form the DE postsynaptic component of most excitatory synapses in the brain. SL Cell projection, dendritic spine membrane. HI Postsynaptic cell membrane. HP Dendritic spine. GO GO:0032591; dendritic spine membrane // ID Desmosome. AC SL-0092 DE A desmosome (DS) is a button-like adhesion complex that stabilizes DE epithelial sheets by anchoring the intermediate filament cytoskeleton DE to the cell junction. Desmosomes are found particularly in tissues DE subjected to mechanical stress. SY DS; Macula adherens. SL Cell junction, desmosome. HI Cell junction. GO GO:0030057; desmosome AN Add "Cell membrane" if the protein is clearly associated with the AN membrane. WW http://celljunctions.med.nyu.edu/desmosomes/desframe.html // ID Dynein axonemal particle. AC SL-0542 DE Dynein axonemal particles are ciliated cell-specific cytoplasmic DE membrane-less organelles, where dynein axonemal assembly factors DE (DNAAFs) and chaperones flux through rapidly while dynein subunits are DE stably retained. May act in storage or assembly of axonemal dyneins DE for rapid deployment to cilia. SY DynAP. SL Dynein axonemal particle. HP Cytoplasm. GO GO:0120293; dynein axonemal particle RX PubMed=33263282; DOI=10.7554/elife.38497; // ID Early endosome. AC SL-0094 DE Early endosomes form a tubulovesicular network spread throughout the DE cortical cytoplasm of the cell. Early endosomes are the primary DE sorting station in the endocytic pathway from which endocytosed DE molecules can be recycled back to the cell membrane or targeted to DE degradation in the lysosomes. Loaded by endocytosed molecules in 1 to DE 4 minutes, their acidic luminal pH around 6.0 allows ligand release DE from recycling receptors. SL Early endosome. HP Endosome. GO GO:0005769; early endosome AN Compartment specific marker: EEA1; Rab5; Rab4. // ID Early endosome lumen. AC SL-0337 DE The early endosomal compartment bounded by the membrane of early DE endosomes, which form a tubulovesicular network spread throughout the DE cortical cytoplasm of the cell. SY Early endosomal lumen. SL Early endosome lumen. HI Endosome lumen. HP Early endosome. GO GO:0031905; early endosome lumen // ID Early endosome membrane. AC SL-0093 DE The membrane surrounding the early endosomes, which form a DE tubulovesicular network spread throughout the cortical cytoplasm of DE the cell. SY Early endosomal membrane. SL Early endosome membrane. HI Endosome membrane. HP Early endosome. GO GO:0031901; early endosome membrane // ID Encapsulin nanocompartment. AC SL-0550 DE Proteinaceous polyhedral shells that encapsulate enzymes. The DE selectively permeable organelles protect their contents from their DE surrounding milieu and/or the milieu from reactants in their interior. DE The self-assembling, 25-42 nm nanocompartment shell, unlike larger DE bacterial microcompartments, is made of only 1 protein, and has only a DE few proteins inside. Shells 25 nm in diameter are made of 60 monomers, DE shells 32 nm are made of 180 monomers, while shells 42 nm in diameter DE are made of 240 monomers with T=1, T=3 or T=4 icosahedral symmetry DE respectively. The shell protein has an HK97-like fold and probably DE evolved from a viral protein. Artificial encapsulin nanocompartments DE can be expressed and filled with cargo proteins for biotechnological DE uses. They are found in many bacterial and a few archaeal phyla. In DE anammox bacteria they may be located inside the anammoxosome. SL Encapsulin nanocompartment. KW KW-1284 GO GO:0140737; encapsulin nanocompartment // ID Endomembrane system. AC SL-0147 DE A collection of membranous structures involved in transport within the DE cell. The main components of the endomembrane system are endoplasmic DE reticulum, Golgi apparatus, vesicles and cell membrane and nuclear DE envelope. The endomembrane system does not include the membranes of DE mitochondria or plastids. SY Endomembrane. SL Endomembrane system. HI Membrane. GO GO:0012505; endomembrane system AN Try to use a child/narrower/more specific term instead // ID Endoplasmic reticulum. AC SL-0095 DE The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is an extensive network of membrane DE tubules, vesicles and flattened cisternae (sac-like structures) found DE throughout the eukaryotic cell, especially those responsible for the DE production of hormones and other secretory products. The membrane is a DE continuation of the outer nuclear membrane, it encloses the cytosol DE cisternal spaces (or internal lumen), which are continuous with the DE nuclear periplasmic space. The ER sustains many general functions, DE including protein synthesis, protein modification, protein folding, DE insertion of membrane proteins, sequestration of calcium, production DE of phospholipids and steroids and transport of proteins destined for DE membranes and secretion. SL Endoplasmic reticulum. KW KW-0256 GO GO:0005783; endoplasmic reticulum AN Compartment specific marker: PDI; calreticulin; calnexin. // ID Endoplasmic reticulum lumen. AC SL-0096 DE The lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is the area enclosed by DE the endoplasmic reticulum membrane, an extensive network of membrane DE tubules, vesicles and flattened cisternae (sac-like structures) found DE throughout the eukaryotic cell, especially those responsible for the DE production of hormones and other secretory products. SL Endoplasmic reticulum lumen. HP Endoplasmic reticulum. GO GO:0005788; endoplasmic reticulum lumen // ID Endoplasmic reticulum membrane. AC SL-0097 DE The membrane surrounding the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). The DE endoplasmic reticulum is an extensive network of membrane tubules, DE vesicles and flattened cisternae (sac-like structures) found DE throughout the eukaryotic cell, especially those responsible for the DE production of hormones and other secretory products. SL Endoplasmic reticulum membrane. HI Membrane. HP Endoplasmic reticulum. HP Endomembrane system. GO GO:0005789; endoplasmic reticulum membrane // ID Endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi intermediate compartment. AC SL-0098 DE The ER-Golgi intermediate compartment is a collection of DE tubulovesicular membrane clusters in the vicinity of ER exit sites. DE The ERGIC mediates transport between the endoplasmic reticulum and the DE Golgi and is the first anterograde/retrograde sorting station in the DE secretory pathway. ERGIC has not been observed in yeast and plants. SY ERGIC; ER-Golgi intermediate compartment; IC; SY Intermediate compartment; Vesiculo-tubular cluster; VTC. SL Endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi intermediate compartment. GO GO:0005793; endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi intermediate compartment AN Compartment specific marker: LMAN1/ERGIC-53 (Also called P-58). // ID Endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi intermediate compartment lumen. AC SL-0326 DE The ERGIC compartment bounded by the ERGIC membrane. SY ERGIC lumen; ER-Golgi intermediate compartment lumen; IC lumen; SY Intermediate compartment lumen; Vesiculo-tubular cluster lumen; SY VTC lumen. SL Endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi intermediate compartment lumen. HP Endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi intermediate compartment. // ID Endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi intermediate compartment membrane. AC SL-0099 DE The membrane surrounding the ER-Golgi intermediate compartment, which DE is a collection of tubulovesicular membrane clusters in the vicinity DE of ER exit sites. SY ERGIC membrane; ER-Golgi intermediate compartment membrane; SY IC membrane; Intermediate compartment membrane; SY Vesiculo-tubular cluster membrane; VTC membrane. SL Endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi intermediate compartment membrane. HI Membrane. HP Endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi intermediate compartment. HP Endomembrane system. GO GO:0033116; endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi intermediate compartment membrane // ID Endosome. AC SL-0101 DE Endosomes are highly dynamic membrane systems involved in transport DE within the cell, they receive endocytosed cell membrane molecules and DE sort them for either degradation or recycling back to the cell DE surface. They also receive newly synthesised proteins destined for DE vacuolar/lysosomal compartments. In certain cell types, endosomal DE multivesicular bodies may fuse with the cell surface in an exocytic DE manner. These released vesicles are called exosomes. SL Endosome. KW KW-0967 GO GO:0005768; endosome // ID Endosome lumen. AC SL-0327 DE The endosomal compartment bounded by the endosomal membrane. SY Endosomal lumen. SL Endosome lumen. HP Endosome. GO GO:0031904; endosome lumen // ID Endosome membrane. AC SL-0100 DE The membrane surrounding the endosome. Endosomes are highly dynamic DE membrane systems involved in transport within the cell, they receive DE endocytosed cell membrane molecules and sort them for either DE degradation or recycling back to the cell surface. SY Endosomal membrane. SL Endosome membrane. HI Membrane. HP Endosome. HP Endomembrane system. GO GO:0010008; endosome membrane // ID Esterosome. AC SL-0109 DE The esterosome is a crystalline inclusion body. This vesicle is filled DE with crystals of proteins showing sequence similarities with various DE esterases. The enclosing membrane has the characteristics of RER. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, esterosome. HI Cytoplasmic vesicle. GO GO:0033117; esterosome // ID Esterosome lumen. AC SL-0328 DE The esterosomal compartment bounded by the esterosomal membrane. SY Esterosomal lumen. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, esterosome lumen. HI Cytoplasmic vesicle lumen. HP Esterosome. GO GO:0034467; esterosome lumen // ID Esterosome membrane. AC SL-0108 DE The membrane surrounding the esterosome, a crystalline inclusion body DE is a vesicle filled with crystals of proteins showing sequence DE similarities with various esterases. SY Esterosomal membrane. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, esterosome membrane. HI Cytoplasmic vesicle membrane. HP Esterosome. HP Endomembrane system. GO GO:0033118; esterosome membrane // ID Etioplast. AC SL-0110 DE The etioplast is a plastid found in plants grown in the dark. SL Plastid, etioplast. HI Plastid. GO GO:0009513; etioplast // ID Etioplast membrane. AC SL-0329 DE The membrane surrounding the etioplast, a plastid found in plants DE grown in the dark. Also used when it is not clear in which etioplast DE membrane a protein is found. SL Plastid, etioplast membrane. HI Plastid membrane. HP Etioplast. GO GO:0034426; etioplast membrane // ID Etioplast stroma. AC SL-0330 DE The etioplast stroma is the space enclosed by the double membrane of DE an etioplast but excluding the prothylakoid space. It contains the DE etioplast DNA. SL Plastid, etioplast stroma. HI Plastid stroma. HP Etioplast. GO GO:0009578; etioplast stroma // ID Extracellular exosome. AC SL-0466 DE Exosomes are 30-120 nm microvesicles of endocytic origin secreted by DE most cell types and found in abundance in body fluids, including DE blood, saliva, urine, and breast milk. They contain various molecular DE constituents of their cell of origin, including proteins and nucleic DE acids, and carry this cargo between diverse locations in the body. DE These microvesicles form by budding into the lumen of the DE multivesicular bodies (MVBs) and are released to extracellular fluids DE by fusion of MVBs with the plasma membrane. SY Extracellular vesicular exosome. SL Secreted, extracellular exosome. HP Secreted. WW http://exocarta.ludwig.edu.au/ // ID Extracellular matrix. AC SL-0111 DE The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a vague term used to refer to all DE the material surrounding cells in a multicellular organism, except DE circulating fluids such as blood or lymph. In some cases, the ECM DE accounts for more of the organism's bulk than its cells. In plants, DE arthropods and fungi the ECM is primarily composed of nonliving DE material such as cellulose or chitin. In vertebrates the ECM consists DE of a complex network including the basement membrane, collage, DE elastin, proteoglycans and hyaluronan. SY Proteinaceous extracellular matrix. SL Secreted, extracellular space, extracellular matrix. HP Extracellular space. KW KW-0272 // IO Extracellular side. AC SL-9911 DE Protein found mostly on the extracellular side of the membrane. SL Extracellular side. // ID Extracellular space. AC SL-0112 DE The extracellular space is the space outside of the cell membrane but DE part of a multicellular organism. The term is typically used for a DE secreted protein that remains associated with the cell, e.g. as part DE of the extracellular matrix. It is not used for a protein that is DE secreted into the blood stream (or other body fluids) of eukaryotic, DE multicellular organisms, such as insulin or fibroblast growth factors. SY Intercellular space. SL Secreted, extracellular space. HP Secreted. GO GO:0005576; extracellular region // ID Extracellular vesicle. AC SL-0499 DE Extracellular vesicles are vesicles that have been released by cells. SY Microparticle. SL Extracellular vesicle. HI Vesicle. RX PubMed=24769233; DOI=10.1016/j.jprot.2014.04.028; // ID Extracellular vesicle membrane. AC SL-0500 DE The membrane surrounding an extracellular vesicle. SL Extracellular vesicle membrane. HI Membrane. HP Extracellular vesicle. // IO Extravirionic side. AC SL-9918 DE Protein found mostly on the extracellular side of the virion membrane. SL Extravirionic side. // ID Filopodium. AC SL-0286 DE The filopodium is a thin, tubular, finger-like cell protrusion filled DE with straight bundled, crosslinked actin filaments having their barbed DE ends directed towards the cell membrane. Filopodium are observed at DE the advancing front of the migrating cell and are implicated in cell DE motility as well as in cell-substrate adhesion. Filopodia explore the DE environment and form nascent adhesive structures in response to DE external signaling cues. These long and highly dynamic protrusions, DE which can extend and retract, are involved in mesenchymal migration. DE They are observed in many cell types, such as amoebae, keratinocytes, DE fibroblasts and in neurite growth cones. SY Filopodia; Microspike. SL Cell projection, filopodium. HI Cell projection. GO GO:0030175; filopodium // ID Filopodium membrane. AC SL-0287 DE The portion of the cell membrane surrounding the filopodium. The DE filopodium is a thin, tubular, finger-like cell protrusion filled with DE straight bundled, crosslinked actin filaments having their barbed ends DE directed towards the cell membrane. SY Filopodia membrane; Microspike membrane. SL Cell projection, filopodium membrane. HP Cell membrane. HP Filopodium. GO GO:0031527; filopodium membrane // ID Filopodium tip. AC SL-0470 DE The end of the filopodium distal to the body of the cell. The DE filopodium is a thin, tubular, finger-like cell protrusion filled with DE straight bundled, crosslinked actin filaments having their barbed ends DE directed towards the cell membrane. SY Filopodia tip; Microspike tip. SL Cell projection, filopodium tip. HP Filopodium. GO GO:0032433; filopodium tip // ID Fimbrium. AC SL-0113 DE A fimbrium or pilus is a hair-like, non-flagellar, polymeric DE filamentous appendage that extend from the bacterial or archaeal cell DE surface, such as type 1 pili, P-pili, type IV pili or curli. Pili DE perform a variety of functions, including surface adhesion, motility, DE cell-cell interactions, biofilm formation, conjugation, DNA uptake, DE and twitching motility. SY Fimbria; Pili; Pilus. SL Fimbrium. KW KW-0281 GO GO:0009289; pilus // ID Flagellar pocket. AC SL-0116 DE The flagellar pocket is a structure found in trypanosomes. The DE flagellar pocket is formed by an invagination in the plasma membrane DE where the flagellum emerges from the cell body. This pocket provides DE the portal through which most of the dynamic interactions with the DE host occur. SL Flagellar pocket. GO GO:0020016; ciliary pocket // ID Flagellum. AC SL-0117 DE The flagellum is a long whip-like or feathery structure which propels DE the cell through a liquid medium. This motile cilium is produced by DE the unicellular eukaryotes, and by the motile male gametes of many DE eukaryotic organisms. The flagella commonly have a characteristic DE axial '9+2' microtubular array (axoneme) and bends are generated along DE the length of the flagellum by restricted sliding of the nine outer DE doublets. SY Flagella; Motile cilia; Motile cilium; Undulipodia; Undulipodium. SL Cell projection, cilium, flagellum. HI Cilium. KW KW-0282 GO GO:0031514; motile cilium WW http://www.ciliome.com // ID Flagellum axoneme. AC SL-0114 DE The flagellum axoneme is the most prominent structural component of DE the flagellum, which is a long whip-like or feathery structure which DE propels the cell through a liquid medium. The flagellum axoneme DE consists of a characteristic axial '9+2' microtubular array. SY Flagellar axoneme. SL Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, flagellum axoneme. HI Cilium axoneme. HP Flagellum. // ID Flagellum basal body. AC SL-0308 DE The basal body is a barrel-shaped microtubule-based structure required DE for the formation of flagella. Basal bodies, structuraly related to DE and often interconvertible with centrioles, serves as a nucleation DE site for axoneme growth. SY Flagellar basal body; Flagellar kinetosome; Flagellum kinetosome. SL Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, flagellum basal body. HI Cilium basal body. HP Flagellum. // ID Flagellum membrane. AC SL-0115 DE The portion of the cell membrane surrounding the flagellum, a long DE whip-like or feathery structure which propels the cell through a DE liquid medium. SY Flagellar membrane. SL Cell projection, cilium, flagellum membrane. HI Cilium membrane. HP Flagellum. // ID Focal adhesion. AC SL-0118 DE Focal adhesions are sites of tightest adhesion made to the underlying DE extracellular matrix by cells in culture. They serve a structural DE role, linking the ECM on the outside to the actin cytoskeleton on the DE inside. In addition, they are sites of signal transduction, initiating DE signaling pathways in response to adhesion. Focal adhesions are formed DE around a transmembrane core of an alpha-beta integrin heterodimer, DE which binds to a component of the extracellular matrix on its DE extracellular region, constitutes the site of anchorage of the actin DE cytoskeleton to the cytoplasmic side of the membrane, and mediates DE various intracellular signaling pathways. SL Cell junction, focal adhesion. HI Cell junction. GO GO:0005925; focal adhesion AN Add "Cell membrane" if the protein is clearly associated with the AN membrane. WW http://www-cellbio.med.unc.edu/grad/depttest/burridge.htm // ID Forespore. AC SL-0119 DE Sporulation leads to the formation of an asymmetrically positioned DE division septum (the polar septum) which divides the developing cell DE into two adjacent, but unequal-sized compartments called the forespore DE (the smaller cell) and the mother cell. SY Prespore. SL Forespore. GO GO:0042763; intracellular immature spore RX PubMed=15753026; DOI=10.1016/j.cub.2005.02.041; // ID Forespore inner membrane. AC SL-0120 DE The inner membrane of the smaller compartment, the forespore, of a DE sporulating cell. SY Prespore inner membrane. SL Forespore inner membrane. HI Forespore membrane. HP Forespore. // ID Forespore intermembrane space. AC SL-0121 DE The intermembrane space between the inner and outer forespore DE membranes. SY Prespore intermembrane space. SL Forespore intermembrane space. HP Forespore. // ID Forespore membrane. AC SL-0122 DE The membrane surrounding a forespore. This term is used when it is not DE known if the protein is found in or associated with the inner or outer DE forespore membrane. SY Prespore membrane. SL Forespore membrane. HI Membrane. HP Forespore. // ID Forespore outer membrane. AC SL-0123 DE The outer membrane of the smaller compartment, the forespore, of a DE sporulating cell. SY Prespore outer membrane. SL Forespore outer membrane. HI Forespore membrane. HP Forespore. // ID Gap junction. AC SL-0124 DE A gap junction (GJ) is a communicating junction between certain cell DE types that allows the passive passage of ions and small molecules DE providing a direct pathway for electrical and metabolic signaling. In DE vertebrates GJs are patches of channels, each cell membrane contains a DE 'hemichannel', so that each GJ channel is composed of two hemichannels DE (connexons), which in turn are composed of six membrane proteins DE (connexins (Cxs)). In invertebrates, GJ channels are formed by another DE large family of integral membrane proteins, the innexins. GJ exists in DE all metazoans (multi-cellular organisms) and in almost all cell types DE in these organisms. SY Connexons. SL Cell junction, gap junction. HI Cell junction. KW KW-0303 GO GO:0005921; gap junction AN Add "Cell membrane" if the protein is clearly associated with the AN membrane. // ID Gas vesicle. AC SL-0125 DE Gas vesicles (GV) are hollow, watertight, gas-permeable proteinaceous DE nanostructures found in some microorganisms. During planktonic growth DE they allow positioning of the organism at a favorable depth for light DE or nutrient acquisition. By regulating their relative GV content, DE aquatic microbes can perform vertical migrations. The GV is DE impermeable to liquid water but is highly permeable to gases and is DE normally filled with air. As they scatter light, they may also protect DE against UV light. Two main proteins are present in the gas vesicle: DE GvpA, an extremely hydrophobic protein which makes the ribs that form DE the structure, and GvpC, which binds to the outside of the ribs, helps DE shape the GV and stiffens it against collapse. SL Gas vesicle. KW KW-0304 GO GO:0031411; gas vesicle // ID Gas vesicle lumen. AC SL-0331 DE The gas vesicle compartment bounded by the protein shell of the gas DE vesicle. SL Gas vesicle lumen. HP Gas vesicle. // ID Gas vesicle shell. AC SL-0126 DE The protein shell surrounding a gas vesicle. SL Gas vesicle shell. HP Gas vesicle. // ID Gem. AC SL-0127 DE Gems are nuclear bodies, often found paired or juxtaposed to Cajal DE bodies, called gems for "gemini of CBs". It is not clear if Cajal DE bodes and gems are distinct nuclear bodies or if they should be DE considered as two manifestations of the same structure. SL Nucleus, gem. HI Nuclear body. HP Nucleus. GO GO:0097504; Gemini of coiled bodies // ID Glycosome. AC SL-0129 DE The glycosome is a specialized peroxisome found in all members of the DE protist order Kinetoplastida examined. Nine enzymes involved in DE glucose and glycerol metabolism are associated with these organelles. DE These enzymes are involved in pathways which, in other organisms, are DE usually located in the cytosol. SL Glycosome. HI Peroxisome. KW KW-0327 GO GO:0020015; glycosome // ID Glycosome matrix. AC SL-0332 DE The glycosomal compartment bounded by the membrane of the glycosome, a DE specialized peroxisome found in all members of the protist order DE Kinetoplastida examined. SY Glycosomal lumen; Glycosomal matrix; Glycosome lumen. SL Glycosome matrix. HI Peroxisome matrix. HP Glycosome. GO GO:0034468; glycosome lumen // ID Glycosome membrane. AC SL-0128 DE The membrane surrounding the the glycosome, a specialized peroxisome DE found in all members of the protist order Kinetoplastida examined. SY Glycosomal membrane. SL Glycosome membrane. HI Peroxisome membrane. HP Glycosome. HP Endomembrane system. GO GO:0046860; glycosome membrane // ID Glyoxysome. AC SL-0131 DE The glyoxysome is a plant peroxisome, especially found in germinating DE seeds, involved in the breakdown and conversion of fatty acids to DE acetyl-CoA for the glyoxylate bypass. Since it is also rich in DE catalase, the glyoxysome may be related to the microbodies or DE peroxisomes or derived from them. SL Glyoxysome. HI Peroxisome. KW KW-0330 GO GO:0009514; glyoxysome // ID Glyoxysome matrix. AC SL-0333 DE The glyoxysomal compartment bounded by the membrane of the glyoxysome, DE a plant peroxisome, especially found in germinating seeds, involved in DE the breakdown and conversion of fatty acids to acetyl-CoA for the DE glyoxylate bypass. SY Glyoxysomal lumen; Glyoxysomal matrix; Glyoxysome lumen. SL Glyoxysome matrix. HI Peroxisome matrix. HP Glyoxysome. GO GO:0031908; glyoxysomal lumen // ID Glyoxysome membrane. AC SL-0130 DE The membrane surrounding the glyoxysome, a plant peroxisome, DE especially found in germinating seeds, involved in the breakdown and DE conversion of fatty acids to acetyl-CoA for the glyoxylate bypass. SY Glyoxysomal membrane. SL Glyoxysome membrane. HI Peroxisome membrane. HP Glyoxysome. HP Endomembrane system. GO GO:0046861; glyoxysomal membrane // ID Golgi apparatus. AC SL-0132 DE The Golgi apparatus is a series of flattened, cisternal membranes and DE similar vesicles usually arranged in close apposition to each other to DE form stacks. In mammalian cells, the Golgi apparatus is juxtanuclear, DE often pericentriolar. The stacks are connected laterally by tubules to DE create a perinuclear ribbon structure, the 'Golgi ribbon'. In plants DE and lower animal cells, the Golgi exists as many copies of discrete DE stacks dispersed throughout the cytoplasm. The Golgi is a polarized DE structure with, in most higher eukaryotic cells, a cis-face associated DE with a tubular reticular network of membranes facing the endoplasmic DE reticulum, the cis-Golgi network (CGN), a medial area of disk-shaped DE flattened cisternae, and a trans-face associated with another tubular DE reticular membrane network, the trans-Golgi network (TGN) directed DE toward the plasma membrane and compartments of the endocytic pathway. DE The Golgi apparatus receives the entire output of de novo synthesized DE polypeptides from the ER, and functions to posttranslationally process DE and sort them within vesicles destined to their proper final DE destination (e.g. plasma membrane, endosomes, lysosomes). SY Apparatus golgiensis; Complexus golgiensis; Golgi; Golgi complex. SL Golgi apparatus. KW KW-0333 GO GO:0005794; Golgi apparatus AN Compartment specific marker: GolgB1/Giantin. // ID Golgi apparatus lumen. AC SL-0133 DE The Golgi lumen consist of the cisternal spaces (or internal lumen) of DE the Golgi apparatus. SY Apparatus golgiensis lumen; Complexus golgiensis lumen; SY Golgi complex lumen; Golgi lumen. SL Golgi apparatus lumen. HP Golgi apparatus. GO GO:0005796; Golgi lumen // ID Golgi apparatus membrane. AC SL-0134 DE The membrane surrounding the Golgi apparatus. SY Apparatus golgiensis membrane; Complexus golgiensis membrane; SY Golgi complex membrane; Golgi membrane. SL Golgi apparatus membrane. HI Membrane. HP Golgi apparatus. HP Endomembrane system. GO GO:0000139; Golgi membrane // ID Golgi outpost. AC SL-0521 DE Golgi outpost is an organelle that shares common markers with the DE perinuclear Golgi body, but is typically much smaller in size and DE located far from the nucleus or cell body. Golgi outposts can function DE as acentrosomal microtubule-organizing centers (MTOCs) and play DE specialized roles in building the cytoarchitecture of neuronal DE dendrites, muscle cells, and oligodendrocytes. SY Golgi elements; Golgi vesicles; Mini Golgi; SY Postsynaptic Golgi apparatus; Satellite Golgi. SL Golgi outpost. HI Golgi apparatus. AN PubMed=32863092 // ID Golgi stack. AC SL-0135 DE The Golgi stack consist of a series of flattened curved and parallel DE series saccules, called cisternae or dictyosomes, that form the DE central portion of the Golgi complex. The stack usually comprises cis, DE medial, and trans cisternae; the cis- and trans-Golgi networks are not DE considered part of the stack. SY Dictyosome; Golgi bodies; Golgi body. SL Golgi apparatus, Golgi stack. HP Golgi apparatus. GO GO:0005795; Golgi stack AN Compartment specific marker: Mannosidase II. // ID Golgi stack lumen. AC SL-0334 DE The Golgi stack compartment bounded by the membrane of the Golgi DE stack. SY Dictyosome lumen; Golgi bodies lumen; Golgi body lumen. SL Golgi apparatus, Golgi stack lumen. HI Golgi apparatus lumen. HP Golgi stack. GO GO:0034469; Golgi stack lumen // ID Golgi stack membrane. AC SL-0136 DE The membrane surrounding the Golgi stack. SY Dictyosome membrane; Golgi bodies membrane; Golgi body membrane; SY Golgi cisterna membrane. SL Golgi apparatus, Golgi stack membrane. HI Golgi apparatus membrane. HP Golgi stack. GO GO:0032580; Golgi cisterna membrane // IT GPI-anchor. AC SL-9902 DE Protein bound to the lipid bilayer of a membrane through a GPI-anchor DE (glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor), a complex oligoglycan linked to DE a phosphatidylinositol group, resulting in the attachment of the C- DE terminus of the protein to the membrane. SY Glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor; SY Glycosylphospholipidinositol anchor. SL Lipid-anchor, GPI-anchor. HI Lipid-anchor. KW KW-0336 // IT GPI-like-anchor. AC SL-9920 DE Protein bound to the lipid bilayer of a membrane through a GPI-like- DE anchor, a complex oligoglycan linked to a sphingolipidinositol group, DE resulting in the attachment of the C-terminus of the protein to the DE membrane. SY Glycosylphospholipidinositol anchor; SY Glycosylsphingolipidinositol anchor. SL Lipid-anchor, GPI-like-anchor. HI Lipid-anchor. KW KW-0336 // ID Growth cone. AC SL-0288 DE The growth cone is a dynamic cell protrusion at the tip of the DE extending axon or dendrite. Neuron extends a specialized structure, DE the growth cone, to find targets in the wiring of the nervous system. DE The growth cone explores its environment by extending dynamic DE filopodia. Growth cone is composed of an ensemble of protruding and DE retracting veils (lamellipodia), net growth cone advance may be DE considered the vector sum of all veil's motility behavior in response DE to their local environments. Filopodia play a key role in delimiting DE veils and serving to nucleate the formation of new veils. SL Cell projection, growth cone. HI Neuron projection. GO GO:0030426; growth cone RX PubMed=17327278; DOI=10.1242/jcs.03384; // ID Growth cone membrane. AC SL-0289 DE The portion of the cell membrane surrounding a growth cone. SL Cell projection, growth cone membrane. HP Cell membrane. HP Growth cone. GO GO:0032584; growth cone membrane // ID H zone. AC SL-0477 DE The A band of a sarcomer is bisected by a paler zone, the H zone, DE where the thick and the thin filaments do not overlap. At the center DE of the H zone is the M line. SY H band; H-band; H disc; H disk. SL Cytoplasm, myofibril, sarcomere, H zone. HP A band. GO GO:0031673; H zone // ID Hemidesmosome. AC SL-0137 DE The hemidesmosome is an integrin-containing adhesive junction located DE along the basal layer of cells where they abut the basement membrane DE zone. As the name implies, only half the desmosome is present; only DE one cell is participating, the second cell being represented by the DE basement membrane. SL Cell junction, hemidesmosome. HI Cell junction. GO GO:0030056; hemidesmosome AN Add "Cell membrane" if the protein is clearly associated with the AN membrane. WW http://celljunctions.med.nyu.edu/hemidesmosomes/hemimain.html // ID Host. AC SL-0431 DE The host is any organism in which another organism, or symbiont, DE spends part or all of its life cycle. Most animals and plants live DE symbiotically with microorganisms. The larger organism is called the DE host and smaller organism the symbiont. When the interactions between DE the symbiont and the host benefits both partners, the symbiotic DE interaction is called mutualism. When there is a negative effect on DE one of the partners, it is called a parasitic symbiosis and if there DE is no beneficial or negative effect it is a commensal symbiosis. These DE clear-cut definitions are not always easy to apply in nature. Take the DE bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa for example. This bacterium can be DE found on the skin of humans and not cause disease, perhaps we would DE call it a commensial, but if the person has a severe burn P. DE aeruginosa can cause an infection and becomes a pathogen (a medicinal DE term for parasitism). This type of organism is called an opportunistic DE pathogen. Whether an association is a mutualist, commensal or DE parasitic depends on the relative "strengths" of the partners and the DE balance of power can change over time. SL Host. GO GO:0018995; host cellular component WW http://web.uconn.edu/mcbstaff/graf/GenSym/GenSym.htm // ID Host apical cell membrane. AC SL-0372 DE The fraction of the host cell membrane at the apical end of the host DE cell, which faces the outside world or the lumen of the host cavity. SY Host apical plasma membrane. SL Host apical cell membrane. HP Host cell membrane. GO GO:0020002; host cell plasma membrane // ID Host basolateral cell membrane. AC SL-0459 DE The fraction of the host cell membrane at the basolateral side of the DE cell, which faces adjacent host cells and the underlying host DE connective tissue. SY Host basolateral plasma membrane. SL Host basolateral cell membrane. HP Host cell membrane. // ID Host caveola. AC SL-0428 DE The host caveola is a small (apparently) uncoated pit found mostly in DE the host cell membrane of many highly differentiated mammalian cells, DE such as adipocytes, endothelial cells and muscle cells. These flask- DE shaped invaginations are defined by the presence of caveolins and DE contains a subset of lipid-raft components, including cholesterol and DE sphingolipids. SY Host caveolae; Host membrane microdomain; Host plasmalemmal vesicle. SL Host membrane, host caveola. HP Host endomembrane system. GO GO:0044155; host caveola // ID Host cell. AC SL-0427 DE A cell within a host organism including the host cell membrane and any DE external encapsulating structures such as the host cell wall and cell DE envelope. SL Host cell. GO GO:0043657; host cell // ID Host cell envelope. AC SL-0421 DE The host cell envelope comprises the cell membrane, the cell wall and DE an outer membrane if present. The Gram-positive bacteria host cell DE envelope consists of the cytoplasmic membrane, cell wall and capsule. DE The Gram-negative host envelope consists of the cytoplasmic membrane, DE cell wall, periplasmic space, outer membrane and capsule. The archaeal DE cell host envelope consists generally of single typical bilayer DE membrane covered by a surface layer (S-layer). Ignicoccus host species DE exceptionally have an outer membrane which encloses a large DE periplasmic space. Extreme host thermophiles and acidophiles have DE tetraether type glycerophospholipids with C40 isoprenoid chains. The DE yeast host cell envelope is a protecting capsule which consists of the DE cytoplasmic membrane, the periplasmic space, and the cell wall. SY Host envelope. SL Host cell envelope. HP Host cell. GO GO:0044230; host cell envelope // ID Host cell inner membrane. AC SL-0373 DE The prokaryotic host cell inner membrane is the selectively permeable DE membrane which separates the host cytoplasm from the host periplasm in DE prokaryotes with 2 membranes. SY Host inner membrane. SL Host cell inner membrane. HI Host cell membrane. KW KW-1030 GO GO:0020002; host cell plasma membrane // ID Host cell junction. AC SL-0374 DE The host cell junction is a host cell-host cell or host cell-host DE extracellular matrix contact within a tissue of a host multicellular DE organism, especially abundant in host epithelia. In vertebrates, there DE are three major types of cell junctions: anchoring junctions (e.g. DE adherens junctions), communicating junctions (e.g. gap junctions) and DE occluding junctions (e.g. tight junctions). SL Host cell junction. HP Host. KW KW-1031 GO GO:0044156; host cell junction // ID Host cell membrane. AC SL-0375 DE The host cell membrane is the selectively permeable membrane which DE separates the host cytoplasm from its surroundings. Known as the host DE cell inner membrane in prokaryotes with 2 membranes. SY Host cytoplasmic membrane; Host plasmalemma; Host plasma membrane. SL Host cell membrane. HI Host membrane. HP Host endomembrane system. HP Host cell envelope. KW KW-1032 GO GO:0020002; host cell plasma membrane // ID Host cell outer membrane. AC SL-0376 DE The prokaryotic host cell outer membrane is the selectively permeable DE membrane which separates the prokaryotic periplasm from its DE surroundings in prokaryotes with 2 membranes. Traditionally only Gram- DE negative bacteria were thought of as having an outer membrane, but DE recent work has shown some Actinobacteria, including Mycobacterium DE tuberculosis, as well as at least 1 archaea (Ignicoccus hospitalis) DE have a cell outer membrane. SY Host outer membrane. SL Host cell outer membrane. HI Host membrane. KW KW-1033 GO GO:0020002; host cell plasma membrane // ID Host cell projection. AC SL-0377 DE A host cell projection is a host cell protrusion such as pseudopodium, DE filopodium, lamellipodium, growth cone, flagellum, acrosome, axon, DE pili or bacterial comet tail. These membrane-cytoskeleton-coupled DE processes are involved in many biological functions, such as host cell DE motility, cancer-cell invasion, endocytosis, phagocytosis, exocytosis, DE pathogen infection, neurite extension and cytokinesis. SY Host cell protrusion. SL Host cell projection. HP Host cell. KW KW-1034 GO GO:0044157; host cell projection // ID Host cell surface. AC SL-0378 DE The outermost side of the host cell. SL Host cell surface. HP Host cell. GO GO:0044228; host cell surface // ID Host cell wall. AC SL-0424 DE The complex and rigid layer surrounding the host cell. Host cell walls DE are found in bacteria, archaea, fungi, plants, and algae. The host DE cell wall is surrounded by an outer membrane in Gram-negative host DE bacteria, and envelopes the inner or plasma host membrane all host DE bacteria. It plays a role in host cell shape, cell stability and DE development, and protection against environmental dangers. SL Host cell wall. HP Host cell envelope. GO GO:0044158; host cell wall // ID Host cellular thylakoid. AC SL-0429 DE The host cellular thylakoids are formed usually by extensive DE invaginations of the host cyanobacterial cell membrane. In DE Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803, the thylakoid membranes are DE physically discontinuous from the plasma membrane, and thus represent DE bona fide intracellular organelles. SL Host cellular thylakoid. HI Host thylakoid. HP Host cell. GO GO:0044159; host thylakoid AN Use only in cyanobacteria, not eukaryotes // ID Host cellular thylakoid membrane. AC SL-0430 DE The membrane of the host cyanobacterial cellular thylakoid. SL Host cellular thylakoid membrane. HI Host membrane. HP Host endomembrane system. HP Host cellular thylakoid. GO GO:0044160; host thylakoid membrane AN Use only in cyanobacteria, not eukaryotes // ID Host chloroplast envelope. AC SL-0483 DE The envelope of a host chloroplast comprises the inner and outer DE chloroplast membrane including the intermembrane space. SY Host chloroplastic envelope. SL Host chloroplast envelope. // ID Host cis-Golgi network. AC SL-0396 DE The host cis-Golgi network is an extensive tubulovesicular network DE bound to the cis face of the Golgi stack and whose function is to DE receive process the biosynthetic output from the ER. SY Host CGN; Host cis-Golgi; Host cis-Golgi complex; Host Golgi cis-face. SL Host Golgi apparatus, host cis-Golgi network. HP Host Golgi apparatus. // ID Host cis-Golgi network membrane. AC SL-0397 DE The lipid bilayer surrounding any of the compartments that make up the DE host cis-Golgi network. SY Host CGN membrane; Host cis-Golgi complex membrane; SY Host cis-Golgi membrane; Host Golgi cis-face membrane. SL Host Golgi apparatus, host cis-Golgi network membrane. HI Host Golgi apparatus membrane. HP Host cis-Golgi network. // ID Host cytoplasm. AC SL-0381 DE The host cytoplasm is the content of a host cell within the plasma DE membrane and, in eukaryotics cells, surrounds the host nucleus. SL Host cytoplasm. HP Host cell. KW KW-1035 GO GO:0030430; host cell cytoplasm // ID Host cytoplasmic vesicle. AC SL-0386 DE The host cytoplasmic vesicles mediate vesicular transport among the DE organelles of host secretory and endocytic systems. SL Host cytoplasmic vesicle. HP Host cell. KW KW-1036 GO GO:0044161; host cell cytoplasmic vesicle // ID Host cytoplasmic vesicle membrane. AC SL-0387 DE The membrane surrounding a host cytoplasmic vesicle. These vesicles DE mediate vesicular transport among the organelles of secretory and DE endocytic systems. SL Host cytoplasmic vesicle membrane. HI Host membrane. HP Host cytoplasmic vesicle. HP Host endomembrane system. GO GO:0044162; host cell cytoplasmic vesicle membrane // ID Host cytoskeleton. AC SL-0383 DE The host cytoskeleton is a dynamic three-dimensional structure that DE fills the host cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells. It is responsible for DE cell movement, cytokinesis, and the organization of the organelles or DE organelle-like structures within the host cell. SL Host cytoplasm, host cytoskeleton. HP Host cytoplasm. KW KW-1037 GO GO:0044163; host cytoskeleton // ID Host cytosol. AC SL-0384 DE The host cytosol is the unstructured aqueous phase of the host DE cytoplasm excluding organelles, membranes, and insoluble cytoskeletal DE components. SL Host cytoplasm, host cytosol. HP Host cytoplasm. GO GO:0044164; host cell cytosol // ID Host early endosome. AC SL-0461 DE The host early endosomes form a tubulovesicular network spread DE throughout the cortical cytoplasm of the host cell. Host early DE endosomes are the primary sorting station in the endocytic pathway DE from which endocytosed molecules can be recycled back to the host cell DE membrane or targeted to degradation in the host lysosomes. SL Host early endosome. HP Host endosome. // ID Host early endosome membrane. AC SL-0462 DE The membrane surrounding the host early endosomes, which form a DE tubulovesicular network spread throughout the cortical cytoplasm of DE the host cell. SY Host early endosomal membrane. SL Host early endosome membrane. HI Host endosome membrane. HP Host early endosome. // ID Host endomembrane system. AC SL-0398 DE A collection of membranous structures involved in transport within the DE host cell. The main components of the host endomembrane system are DE endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, vesicles, and cell membrane DE and nuclear envelope. The endomembrane system does not include the DE membranes of mitochondria or plastids. SY Host endomembrane. SL Host endomembrane system. HI Host membrane. GO GO:0033645; host cell endomembrane system // ID Host endoplasmic reticulum. AC SL-0388 DE The host endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is an extensive network of DE membrane tubules, vesicles and flattened cisternae (sac-like DE structures) found throughout the eukaryotic host cell, especially DE those responsible for the production of hormones and other secretory DE products. SL Host endoplasmic reticulum. HP Host cell. KW KW-1038 GO GO:0044165; host cell endoplasmic reticulum // ID Host endoplasmic reticulum lumen. AC SL-0389 DE The lumen of the host endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is the area enclosed DE by the host endoplasmic reticulum membrane, an extensive network of DE membrane tubules, vesicles and flattened cisternae (sac-like DE structures) found throughout the eukaryotic cell, especially those DE responsible for the production of hormones and other secretory DE products. SL Host endoplasmic reticulum lumen. HP Host endoplasmic reticulum. GO GO:0044166; host cell endoplasmic reticulum lumen // ID Host endoplasmic reticulum membrane. AC SL-0390 DE The membrane surrounding the host endoplasmic reticulum (ER). The host DE endoplasmic reticulum is an extensive network of membrane tubules, DE vesicles and flattened cisternae (sac-like structures) found DE throughout the eukaryotic host cell, especially those responsible for DE the production of hormones and other secretory products. SL Host endoplasmic reticulum membrane. HI Host membrane. HP Host endoplasmic reticulum. HP Host endomembrane system. GO GO:0044167; host cell endoplasmic reticulum membrane // ID Host endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi intermediate compartment. AC SL-0391 DE The host ER-Golgi intermediate compartment is a collection of DE tubulovesicular membrane clusters in the vicinity of host ER exit DE sites. The host ERGIC mediates transport between the endoplasmic DE reticulum and the Golgi and is the first anterograde/retrograde DE sorting station in the host secretory pathway. SY Host ERGIC; Host ER-Golgi intermediate compartment; Host IC; SY Host intermediate compartment; Host vesiculo-tubular cluster; SY Host VTC. SL Host endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi intermediate compartment. HP Host cell. GO GO:0044172; host cell endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi intermediate compartment // ID Host endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi intermediate compartment membrane. AC SL-0392 DE The membrane surrounding the host ER-Golgi intermediate compartment, DE which is a collection of tubulovesicular membrane clusters in the DE vicinity of host ER exit sites. SY Host ERGIC membrane; Host ER-Golgi intermediate compartment membrane; SY Host IC membrane; Host intermediate compartment membrane; SY Host vesiculo-tubular cluster membrane; Host VTC membrane. SL Host endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi intermediate compartment membrane. HI Host membrane. HP Host endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi intermediate compartment. HP Host endomembrane system. GO GO:0044173; host cell endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi intermediate compartment membrane // ID Host endosome. AC SL-0393 DE Host endosomes are highly dynamic membrane systems involved in DE transport within the host cell, they receive endocytosed host cell DE membrane molecules and sort them for either degradation or recycling DE back to the host cell surface. They also receive newly synthesised DE proteins destined for host vacuolar/lysosomal compartments. SL Host endosome. HP Host cell. KW KW-1039 GO GO:0044174; host cell endosome // ID Host endosome membrane. AC SL-0394 DE The membrane surrounding the host endosome. Host endosomes are highly DE dynamic membrane systems involved in transport within the cell, they DE receive endocytosed host cell membrane molecules and sort them for DE either degradation or recycling back to the host cell surface. SY Host endosomal membrane. SL Host endosome membrane. HI Host membrane. HP Host endosome. HP Host endomembrane system. GO GO:0044175; host cell endosome membrane // ID Host extracellular space. AC SL-0425 DE The host extracellular space is the space outside of the host cell DE membrane but part of a multicellular host organism. SY Host intercellular space. SL Host extracellular space. HP Host. GO GO:0043655; host extracellular space // ID Host filopodium. AC SL-0379 DE The host filopodium is a thin, tubular, finger-like host cell DE protrusion filled with straight bundled, crosslinked actin filaments DE having their barbed ends directed towards the host cell membrane. SY Host filopodia; Host microspike. SL Host cell projection, host filopodium. HI Host cell projection. GO GO:0044176; host cell filopodium // ID Host glyoxysome. AC SL-0474 DE The host glyoxysome is a plant peroxisome, especially found in DE germinating seeds, involved in the breakdown and conversion of fatty DE acids to acetyl-CoA for the glyoxylate bypass. Since it is also rich DE in catalase, the glyoxysome may be related to the microbodies or DE peroxisomes or derived from them. SL Host glyoxysome. HI Host peroxisome. // ID Host Golgi apparatus. AC SL-0395 DE The host Golgi apparatus is a series of flattened, cisternal membranes DE and similar vesicles usually arranged in close apposition to each DE other to form stacks. In mammalian cells, the host Golgi apparatus is DE juxtanuclear, often pericentriolar. The stacks are connected laterally DE by tubules to create a perinuclear ribbon structure, the 'Golgi DE ribbon'. In plants and lower animal cells, the host Golgi exists as DE many copies of discrete stacks dispersed throughout the host DE cytoplasm. It is a polarized structure with, in most higher eukaryotic DE cells, a cis-face associated with a tubular reticular network of DE membranes facing the endoplasmic reticulum, the cis-Golgi network DE (CGN), a medial area of disk-shaped flattened cisternae, and a trans- DE face associated with another tubular reticular membrane network, the DE trans-Golgi network (TGN) directed toward the host plasma membrane and DE compartments of the host endocytic pathway. SY Host apparatus golgiensis; Host complexus golgiensis; Host Golgi; SY Host Golgi complex. SL Host Golgi apparatus. HP Host cell. KW KW-1040 GO GO:0044177; host cell Golgi apparatus // ID Host Golgi apparatus membrane. AC SL-0426 DE The host membrane surrounding the host Golgi apparatus. SY Host apparatus golgiensis membrane; SY Host complexus golgiensis membrane; Host Golgi complex membrane; SY Host Golgi membrane. SL Host Golgi apparatus membrane. HI Host membrane. HP Host Golgi apparatus. HP Host endomembrane system. GO GO:0044178; host cell Golgi membrane // ID Host late endosome. AC SL-0399 DE Host late endosomes are pleiomorphic with cisternal, tubular and DE multivesicular regions. They are found in juxtanuclear regions and DE concentrated at the host microtubule organizing center. They are an DE important sorting station in the endocytic pathway. Recycling to the DE plasma membrane and to the Golgi occurs in late endosomes. SL Host late endosome. HP Host endosome. GO GO:0044184; host cell late endosome // ID Host late endosome membrane. AC SL-0400 DE The membrane surrounding the host late endosomes. SY Host late endosomal membrane. SL Host late endosome membrane. HI Host endosome membrane. HP Host late endosome. GO GO:0044185; host cell late endosome membrane // ID Host lipid droplet. AC SL-0401 DE The host lipid droplet is a dynamic cytoplasmic host organelle which DE consists of an heterogeneous macromolecular assembly of lipids and DE proteins covered by a unique phospholipid monolayer. They may play a DE role in host lipid metabolism and storage, and they may be involved in DE the regulation of intracellular trafficking and signal transduction. SY Host adiposome; Host lipid bodies; Host lipid body; SY Host lipid particle; Host monolayer-surrounded lipid storage body; SY Host oil bodies; Host oil body; Host oleosome; Host spherosome. SL Host lipid droplet. HP Host cell. KW KW-1041 GO GO:0044186; host cell lipid droplet // ID Host lysosome. AC SL-0403 DE The host lysosome is a membrane-limited organelle present in all DE eukaryotic cells, which contains a large number of hydrolytic enzymes DE that are used for degrading almost any kind of cellular constituent, DE including entire organelles. The mechanisms responsible for delivering DE cytoplasmic cargo to the host lysosome/vacuole are known collectively DE as autophagy and play an important role in the maintenance of DE homeostasis. SL Host lysosome. HP Host cell. KW KW-1042 GO GO:0044187; host cell lysosome // ID Host lysosome membrane. AC SL-0404 DE The membrane surrounding a host lysosome. SY Host lysosomal membrane. SL Host lysosome membrane. HI Host membrane. HP Host endomembrane system. HP Host lysosome. GO GO:0044188; host cell lysosomal membrane // ID Host membrane. AC SL-0380 DE A host membrane is a lipid bilayer which surrounds host enclosed DE spaces and compartments. This selectively permeable structure is DE essential for effective separation of a host cell or organelle from DE its surroundings. SL Host membrane. HI Membrane. KW KW-1043 GO GO:0033644; host cell membrane // ID Host microsome. AC SL-0405 DE The host microsomes are a heterogenous set of vesicles 20-200nm in DE diameter and formed from the host endoplasmic reticulum when host DE cells are disrupted. SL Host microsome. HP Host cell. KW KW-1044 GO GO:0033648; host intracellular membrane-bounded organelle // ID Host microsome membrane. AC SL-0406 DE The membrane surrounding the host microsome. SY Host microsomal membrane. SL Host microsome membrane. HI Host membrane. HP Host endomembrane system. HP Host microsome. GO GO:0033648; host intracellular membrane-bounded organelle // ID Host mitochondrion. AC SL-0407 DE The host mitochondrion is a semiautonomous, self-reproducing organelle DE that occurs in the cytoplasm of all cells of most, but not all, host DE eukaryotes. Each host mitochondrion is surrounded by a double limiting DE membrane. The inner membrane is highly invaginated, and its DE projections are called cristae. They are the sites of the reactions of DE oxidative phosphorylation, which result in the formation of ATP. SL Host mitochondrion. HP Host cell. KW KW-1045 GO GO:0033650; host cell mitochondrion // ID Host mitochondrion envelope. AC SL-0408 DE The host mitochondrial envelope comprises the inner and outer host DE mitochondrial membrane including the mitochondrial intermembrane DE space. SY Host mitochondrial envelope. SL Host mitochondrion envelope. HP Host mitochondrion. GO GO:0044190; host cell mitochondrial envelope // ID Host mitochondrion inner membrane. AC SL-0409 DE The host mitochondrion inner membrane is the membrane which separates DE the host mitochondrial matrix from the host mitochondrial DE intermembrane space. SY Host inner mitochondrial membrane; Host mitochondrial inner membrane. SL Host mitochondrion inner membrane. HI Host mitochondrion membrane. KW KW-1046 GO GO:0044192; host cell mitochondrial inner membrane // ID Host mitochondrion membrane. AC SL-0410 DE The membrane surrounding a host mitochondrion. This term is used when DE it is not known if the protein is found in or associated with the DE inner or outer host mitochondrial membrane. SY Host mitochondrial membrane. SL Host mitochondrion membrane. HI Host membrane. HP Host mitochondrion envelope. GO GO:0044191; host cell mitochondrial membrane // ID Host mitochondrion outer membrane. AC SL-0411 DE The host mitochondrion outer membrane is the host mitochondrial DE membrane facing the host cytoplasm. SY Host mitochondrial outer membrane; Host outer mitochondrial membrane. SL Host mitochondrion outer membrane. HI Host mitochondrion membrane. KW KW-1047 GO GO:0044193; host cell mitochondrial outer membrane // ID Host multivesicular body. AC SL-0453 DE The host multivesicular bodies are a type of late endosome containing DE internal vesicles formed following the inward budding of the host DE outer endosomal membrane. The contents of the MVBs are then released DE into the lysosome lumen. The proteins found in the limiting membrane DE of MVBs are recycled to other compartments. SY Host corpuscula multivesicularis; Host ECV; SY Host endosomal carrier vesicle; Host multivesicular bodies; Host MVB. SL Host endosome, host multivesicular body. HP Host endosome. GO GO:0072494; host multivesicular body // ID Host nucleolus. AC SL-0412 DE The host nucleolus is a dark, dense, roughly spherical area of fibers DE and granules in the host nucleus. Only plant and animal nuclei contain DE one or more nucleoli, although some do not. No membrane separates the DE host nucleolus from the host nucleoplasm. It mediates ribosomal RNA DE biogenesis. SY Host nucleoli. SL Host nucleus, host nucleolus. HP Host nucleus. GO GO:0044196; host cell nucleolus // ID Host nucleoplasm. AC SL-0413 DE The host nucleoplasm is a highly viscous liquid contained within the DE host nucleus that surrounds the chromosomes and other subnuclear DE organelles. A network of fibers known as the host nuclear matrix can DE also be found in there. SY Host karyolymph; Host karyoplasm. SL Host nucleus, host nucleoplasm. HP Host nucleus. GO GO:0044095; host cell nucleoplasm // ID Host nucleus. AC SL-0414 DE The host nucleus is the most obvious organelle in any host eukaryotic DE cell. It is a membrane-bound organelle and is surrounded by double DE membranes. It communicates with the surrounding cytosol via numerous DE nuclear pores. SL Host nucleus. HP Host cell. KW KW-1048 GO GO:0042025; host cell nucleus // ID Host nucleus envelope. AC SL-0415 DE The host nuclear envelope is a membrane system which surrounds the DE host nucleoplasm of eukaryotic cells. It is composed of the nuclear DE lamina, nuclear pore complexes and two nuclear membranes. The space DE between the two membranes is called the host nuclear intermembrane DE space. SY Host karyotheca; Host nuclear envelope; Host nucleolemma; SY Host perinuclear envelope. SL Host nucleus envelope. HP Host nucleus. GO GO:0044199; host cell nuclear envelope // ID Host nucleus inner membrane. AC SL-0419 DE The inner membrane surrounding the host nucleus is the membrane which DE separates the host nuclear matrix from the host intermembrane space. SY Host inner nuclear membrane; Host nuclear inner membrane. SL Host nucleus inner membrane. HI Host nucleus membrane. GO GO:0044201; host cell nuclear inner membrane // ID Host nucleus lamina. AC SL-0416 DE The host nuclear lamina is a meshwork of intermediate filament DE proteins called lamins and lamin-binding proteins that are embedded in DE the host inner nuclear membrane. SY Host nuclear lamina. SL Host nucleus lamina. HP Host nucleus envelope. GO GO:0044203; host cell nuclear lamina // ID Host nucleus matrix. AC SL-0417 DE The host nuclear matrix is a three-dimensional filamentous protein DE network, found in the host nucleoplasm, which provides a structural DE framework for organising host chromatin, while facilitating DE transcription and replication. SY Host nuclear matrix; Host nuclear scaffold; Host nuclear skeleton. SL Host nucleus matrix. HP Host nucleus. GO GO:0044204; host cell nuclear matrix // ID Host nucleus membrane. AC SL-0418 DE The membrane surrounding the host nucleus. This term is used when it DE is not known if the protein is found in or associated with the inner DE or outer host nuclear membrane. SY Host nuclear membrane. SL Host nucleus membrane. HI Host membrane. HP Host endomembrane system. HP Host nucleus envelope. GO GO:0044200; host cell nuclear membrane // ID Host nucleus outer membrane. AC SL-0446 DE The outer membrane of the host nucleus is the membrane facing the host DE cytoplasm. In host mammals, the host outer nuclear membrane is DE continuous in many places with the host rough endoplasmic reticulum DE and is dotted with ribosomes. SY Host nuclear outer membrane; Host outer nuclear membrane. SL Host nucleus outer membrane. HI Host nucleus membrane. GO GO:0044202; host cell nuclear outer membrane // ID Host pathogen-containing vacuole. AC SL-0507 DE A host-derived vacuole formed upon pathogen internalization by a host DE cell, within which the pathogen resides. The pathogen extensively DE modifies the vacuole membrane and contents, as well as its fate, in DE the process protecting the pathogen from destruction. SY Pathogen inclusion. SL Host vacuole, host pathogen-containing vacuole. HP Host vacuole. GO GO:0140220; pathogen-containing vacuole // ID Host pathogen-containing vacuole lumen. AC SL-0508 DE The volume enclosed in a host-derived vacuole formed upon pathogen DE internalization by a host cell. SY Pathogen inclusion lumen. SL Host vacuole, host pathogen-containing vacuole, host pathogen-containing vacuole lumen. HI Host pathogen-containing vacuole. GO GO:0140222; pathogen-containing vacuole lumen // ID Host pathogen-containing vacuole membrane. AC SL-0509 DE The host-derived membrane which encloses a vacuole formed upon DE pathogen internalization by a host cell. SY Pathogen inclusion membrane. SL Host vacuole, host pathogen-containing vacuole, host pathogen-containing vacuole membrane. HI Host membrane. HP Host pathogen-containing vacuole. GO GO:0140221; pathogen-containing vacuole membrane // ID Host perinuclear region. AC SL-0382 DE The host perinuclear region is the host cytoplasmic region just around DE the host nucleus. SY Host nuclear periphery; Host perinuclear region of cytoplasm. SL Host cytoplasm, host perinuclear region. HP Host cytoplasm. GO GO:0044220; host cell perinuclear region of cytoplasm // ID Host periplasm. AC SL-0420 DE The host periplasm is the space between the inner and outer membrane DE in host Gram-negative bacteria. In Gram-positive bacteria a smaller DE periplasmic space is found between the inner membrane and the DE peptidoglycan layer. Also used for the host intermembrane spaces of DE host fungi and host organelles. SY Host periplasmic space. SL Host periplasm. HP Host cell envelope. KW KW-1049 GO GO:0044229; host cell periplasmic space // ID Host peroxisome. AC SL-0475 DE The host peroxisome is a small eukaryotic organelle limited by a DE single membrane, specialized for carrying out oxidative reactions. DE Contains mainly peroxidases, several other oxidases and catalase. The DE catalase regulates the contents of the produced toxic hydrogen DE peroxide thus protecting the cell. Beta-oxidation of fatty acids is DE another major function of peroxisomes. In plants and fungi this DE degradation occurs only in this cellular compartment. SL Host peroxisome. GO GO:0120149; host cell peroxisome // ID Host phagosome. AC SL-0432 DE The host phagosome is a phagocytic host cell-specific compartment. DE These large endocytic membrane-bound vesicles form upon ingestion by DE the host cell of extracellular materials. SY Host phagocytic vesicle. SL Host cytoplasmic vesicle, host phagosome. HI Host cytoplasmic vesicle. // ID Host phagosome membrane. AC SL-0433 DE The membrane surrounding a host phagosome. SY Host phagocytic vesicle membrane; Host phagosomal membrane. SL Host cytoplasmic vesicle, host phagosome membrane. HI Host cytoplasmic vesicle membrane. HP Host phagosome. // ID Host plasmodesma. AC SL-0385 DE The host plasmodesma (plural host plasmodesmata) is a plasma membrane- DE lined channel that crosses the cell wall between two adjacent host DE plant cells and which allows a cytoplasmic exchange between the cells. DE It provides passage of ions and small molecules, but also of DE macromolecules such as RNA or proteins. Host plasmodesmata are DE sheathed by a host plasma membrane that is simply an extension of the DE cell membrane of the adjoining cells. SY Host PD; Host plasmodesmata. SL Host cell junction, host plasmodesma. HI Host cell junction. GO GO:0044219; host cell plasmodesma // ID Host presynaptic cell membrane. AC SL-0434 DE In a host chemical synapse, the host presynaptic membrane is the cell DE membrane of an axon terminal that faces the receiving cell. The DE postsynaptic membrane is separated from the presynaptic membrane by DE the synaptic cleft. SY Host presynaptic membrane. SL Host synapse, host presynaptic cell membrane. HP Host cell membrane. HP Host synapse. GO GO:0044231; host cell presynaptic membrane // ID Host rough endoplasmic reticulum. AC SL-0422 DE The host rough endoplasmic reticulum (host RER) is the portion of the DE host ER which is covered with ribosomes. SY Host RER; Host rough ER. SL Host rough endoplasmic reticulum. HP Host endoplasmic reticulum. GO GO:0044168; host cell rough endoplasmic reticulum // ID Host rough endoplasmic reticulum membrane. AC SL-0423 DE The membrane surrounding the host rough endoplasmic reticulum. SL Host rough endoplasmic reticulum membrane. HI Host endoplasmic reticulum membrane. HP Host rough endoplasmic reticulum. GO GO:0044169; host cell rough endoplasmic reticulum membrane // ID Host secretory vesicle. AC SL-0504 DE The host secretory vesicle is a host vesicle that mediates the DE vesicular transport of cargo - e.g. hormones or neurotransmitters DE - from an organelle to specific sites at the host cell membrane, where DE it docks and fuses to release its content. SL Host cytoplasmic vesicle, host secretory vesicle. HI Host cytoplasmic vesicle. // ID Host smooth endoplasmic reticulum. AC SL-0444 DE The host smooth endoplasmic reticulum (host SER) is the portion of the DE host ER which is free of ribosomes. SY Host SER; Host smooth ER. SL Host smooth endoplasmic reticulum. HP Host endoplasmic reticulum. GO GO:0044170; host cell smooth endoplasmic reticulum // ID Host smooth endoplasmic reticulum membrane. AC SL-0445 DE The membrane surrounding the host smooth endoplasmic reticulum. SL Host smooth endoplasmic reticulum membrane. HI Host endoplasmic reticulum membrane. HP Host rough endoplasmic reticulum. GO GO:0044171; host cell smooth endoplasmic reticulum membrane // ID Host synapse. AC SL-0435 DE Host synapses are the communicating cell-cell junctions that allow DE signals to pass from a host nerve cell to a target cell. In a chemical DE synapse, the signal is carried by a neurotransmitter which diffuses DE across a narrow synaptic cleft and activates a receptor on the DE postsynaptic membrane of the target cell. The target may be a DE dendrite, cell body, neuronal axon, a specialized region of a muscle DE or a secretory cell. In an electrical synapse, a direct connection is DE made between the cytoplasms of two cells via gap junctions. SL Host synapse. KW KW-1051 GO GO:0044221; host cell synapse // ID Host synaptic vesicle. AC SL-0502 DE In a host synapse, host synaptic vesicles mediate the exocytosis of DE neurotransmitters and subsequent re-uptake by endocytosis of vesicular DE components. Re-uptake is a crucial element in the maintenance of host DE synaptic transmission in the nervous system. SL Host secretory vesicle, host synaptic vesicle. HI Host secretory vesicle. HP Host synapse. // ID Host synaptic vesicle membrane. AC SL-0503 DE The host membrane surrounding a host synaptic vesicle SY Host synaptic vesicular membrane. SL Host cytoplasmic vesicle, host secretory vesicle, host synaptic vesicle membrane. HP Host synaptic vesicle. // ID Host thylakoid. AC SL-0449 DE The host thylakoid is a membranous cellular structure containing the DE photosynthetic pigments, reaction centers and electron-transport DE chain. In host chloroplast, thylakoids stack up to form the grana or DE stay as single cisternae and interconnect the grana. Thylakoid, where DE photosynthesis occurs, are found in chloroplasts, cyanelles and in DE photosynthetic bacteria where they are the extensive invaginations of DE the plasma membrane. SL Host thylakoid. HP Host cell. KW KW-1050 GO GO:0044159; host thylakoid // ID Host trans-Golgi network. AC SL-0463 DE The host trans-Golgi network is a highly dynamic series of DE interconnected tubules and vesicles at the trans face of the host DE Golgi stack. The host trans-Golgi network functions in the processing DE and sorting of glycoproteins and glycolipids at the interface of the DE biosynthetic and endosomal pathways. The generation and maintenance of DE host apical and basolateral membranes rely on sorting events that DE occur in the host TGN. SY Host Golgi trans-face; Host TGN; Host trans-Golgi; SY Host trans-Golgi complex. SL Host Golgi apparatus, host trans-Golgi network. HP Host Golgi apparatus. // ID Host trans-Golgi network membrane. AC SL-0464 DE The membrane surrounding the host trans-Golgi network. SY Host Golgi trans-face membrane; Host TGN membrane; SY Host trans-Golgi complex membrane; Host trans-Golgi membrane. SL Host Golgi apparatus, host trans-Golgi network membrane. HI Host Golgi apparatus membrane. HP Host trans-Golgi network. // ID Host vacuole. AC SL-0506 DE The host vacuole is a fluid-filled, membrane-bound compartment in the DE cytoplasm. The precise form and function of vacuoles may vary between DE phyla. They are employed for a variety of purposes, including storage, DE as a degradative compartment, cell size control, secretion and DE following phagocytosis. SL Host vacuole. HP Host cell. // ID Hyaline layer. AC SL-0143 DE The hyaline layer is a multilayered extracellular matrix that coats DE the external surfaces of sea urchin and starfish embryos. SL Secreted, extracellular space, extracellular matrix, hyaline layer. HI Extracellular matrix. GO GO:0033166; hyaline layer // ID Hydrogenosome. AC SL-0145 DE The hydrogenosome is a redox organelle of anaerobic unicellular DE eukaryotes which contains hydrogenase and produces hydrogen and ATP by DE glycolysis. They are found in various unrelated eukaryotes, such as DE anaerobic flagellates, chytridiomycete fungi and ciliates. Most DE hydrogenosomes lack a genome, but some like that of the anaerobic DE ciliate Nyctotherus ovalis, have retained a rudimentary genome. SL Hydrogenosome. KW KW-0377 GO GO:0042566; hydrogenosome // ID Hydrogenosome lumen. AC SL-0335 DE The hydrogenosomal compartment bounded by the membrane of the DE hydrogenosome, a redox organelle found in anaerobic unicellular DE eukaryotes. SY Hydrogenosomal lumen. SL Hydrogenosome lumen. HP Hydrogenosome. GO GO:0034492; hydrogenosome lumen // ID Hydrogenosome membrane. AC SL-0144 DE The membrane surrounding the hydrogenosome, a redox organelle found in DE anaerobic unicellular eukaryotes. SY Hydrogenosomal membrane. SL Hydrogenosome membrane. HI Membrane. HP Hydrogenosome. GO GO:0046859; hydrogenosomal membrane // ID I band. AC SL-0478 DE The appearance of the striated muscle is created by a pattern of DE alternating dark A bands and light I bands. I bands are composed of DE thin actin filaments and proteins that bind actin and they are DE bisected by the Z line. The thin filaments extend in each direction DE from the Z-disk, where they do not overlap the thick filaments, they DE create the light I band. SY I-band; I disc; I disk. SL Cytoplasm, myofibril, sarcomere, I band. HP Sarcomere. GO GO:0031674; I band WW http://www.sarcomere.org/ // ID Inflammasome. AC SL-0488 DE Inflammasomes are supramolecular micron-sized complexes that assemble DE in the cytosol adjacent to the nucleus in response to pathogens and DE other damage-associated signals. The inflammasome assembly leads to DE the activation of proinflammatory procaspases, hence is usually DE involved in innate immunity and inflammation. The core of DE inflammasomes consists of at least 2 components: a signal sensor and DE an effector inflammatory caspase (mostly CASP1). However, most DE inflammasomes contain a third element, an adaptor (often ASC/PYCARD). DE The interaction between the sensor component and the adaptor initiates DE speck formation (nucleation) which greatly enhances further addition DE of soluble adaptor molecules to the speck in a prion-like DE polymerization process. The kinetic properties of the adaptor DE aggregation have been shown to generate a rapid 'all-or-none' DE response, this is why only one speck by cell is observed. SY ASC focus; ASC speck. SL Inflammasome. HP Cytosol. KW KW-1271 GO GO:0061702; canonical inflammasome complex // ID Inner membrane complex. AC SL-0362 DE The inner membrane complex, found in apicocomplexan parasites, is DE composed of flattened membrane cisternae closely associated to the DE cell membrane. Together, the cell membrane and the IMC form a triple DE lipid bilayer called the pellicle (or cell wall). SY IMC. SL Inner membrane complex. HP Membrane. GO GO:0070258; inner membrane pellicle complex // IO Intermembrane side. AC SL-9912 DE Protein found mostly on the intermembrane side of the membrane. SL Intermembrane side. // ID Interphotoreceptor matrix. AC SL-0146 DE In vertebrates, the photoreceptors are separated from the retinal DE pigment epithelium by the subretinal space, which contains a DE specialized extracellular material referred to as interphotoreceptor DE matrix. The IPM mediates key interactions between the photoreceptors DE and RPE including adhesion, phagocytosis, outer segment stability, DE nutrient exchange, development, and vitamin A trafficking in the DE visual cycle. SY IPM. SL Secreted, extracellular space, extracellular matrix, interphotoreceptor matrix. HI Extracellular matrix. GO GO:0033165; interphotoreceptor matrix // IO Intravirionic side. AC SL-9919 DE Protein found mostly on the intravirionic side of the virion membrane. SL Intravirionic side. // ID Invadopodium. AC SL-0148 DE The invadopodium is a localized and persitent cell protrusion similar DE to the highly dynamic podosome, but larger. These structures protrudes DE into the extracellular matrix. Invadopodial protrusions are enriched DE in integrins, tyrosine kinase signaling machinery, soluble and DE membrane proteases including matrix metalloproteases, actin and actin- DE associated proteins. Essential for physiological and pathological cell DE invasion and metastasis these structures are involved in focalized DE degradation of the extracellular matrix. Invadopodia form underneath DE the cell body, often close to the nucleus and proximal to the Golgi DE complex, and are rarely found at the cell periphery. Their half-life DE is quite extended. As invadopodia and podosomes are similar in DE appearance, location and composition, it is likely that a thin line DE separates these two entities in time and function. SY Invadopodia. SL Cell projection, invadopodium. HI Cell junction. HI Cell projection. RX PubMed=16546558; DOI=10.1016/j.ejcb.2005.09.005; // ID Invadopodium membrane. AC SL-0290 DE The portion of the cell membrane surrounding an invadopodium. SL Cell projection, invadopodium membrane. HP Cell membrane. HP Invadopodium. // ID Kinetochore. AC SL-0149 DE The kinetochore is a protein complex assembled on the centromeric DE region of DNA. It provides the major attachment point for the spindle DE microtubules during mitotic or meiotic division to pull the DE chromosomes apart. In monocentric chromosomes, the kinetochores of DE point centromeres bind a single microtubule and the larger DE kinetochores of regional centromeres interact with a number of DE microtubules. In holocentric chromosomes, the kinetochores bind the DE diffuse centromere along the length of the chromosomes. SL Chromosome, centromere, kinetochore. HP Centromere. KW KW-0995 // ID Kinetoplast. AC SL-0150 DE The mitochondrial DNA of trypanosomatid protozoa is termed kinetoplast DE DNA (kDNA). kDNA is a massive network, composed of thousands of DE topologically interlocked DNA circles. Each cell contains one network DE condensed into a disk-shaped structure within the matrix of its single DE mitochondrion. The kDNA circles are of two types, maxicircles present DE in a few dozen copies and minicircles present in several thousand DE copies. SL Mitochondrion matrix, kinetoplast. HP Mitochondrion matrix. KW KW-0419 GO GO:0020023; kinetoplast // ID Kinocilium. AC SL-0460 DE The kinocilium is an immotile primary cilium that is found at the DE apical surface of auditory receptor cells. Hair bundles, the DE mechanosensory device of the sensory hair cells, are composed of DE height-ranked rows of stereocilia and a single kinocilium that are DE interconnected by extracellular proteinaceous links. SY Kinocilia. SL Cell projection, kinocilium. HI Cilium. GO GO:0060091; kinocilium // ID Lamellipodium. AC SL-0291 DE The lamellipodium is a broad, flat, veil-shaped cell protrusion formed DE at the leading edge of migrating cells. Lamellipodium contain a DE branched dendritic network of actin filaments having their barbed ends DE directed towards the cell membrane. It is associated with ameboid DE motility (or crawling motility). SY Lamellipodia; Veil. SL Cell projection, lamellipodium. HI Cell projection. GO GO:0030027; lamellipodium // ID Lamellipodium membrane. AC SL-0292 DE The portion of the cell membrane surrounding a lamellipodium. SL Cell projection, lamellipodium membrane. HP Cell membrane. HP Lamellipodium. GO GO:0031258; lamellipodium membrane // ID Late endosome. AC SL-0152 DE Late endosomes are pleiomorphic with cisternal, tubular and DE multivesicular regions. They are found in juxtanuclear regions and DE concentrated at the microtubule organizing center. They are an DE important sorting station in the endocytic pathway. Recycling to the DE plasma membrane and to the Golgi occurs in late endosomes. More acidic DE than early endosomes they are also loaded more slowly in a range of 4 DE to 30 minutes depending on the cell type. They can be distinguished DE from lysosome for their enrichment in M6PR. SL Late endosome. HP Endosome. GO GO:0005770; late endosome AN Compartment specific marker: Rab7; Rab9; LBPA. // ID Late endosome lumen. AC SL-0336 DE The late endosomal comaprtment bounded by the membrane of the late DE endosome. SY Late endosomal lumen. SL Late endosome lumen. HI Endosome lumen. HP Late endosome. GO GO:0031906; late endosome lumen // ID Late endosome membrane. AC SL-0151 DE The membrane surrounding the late endosomes. SY Late endosomal membrane. SL Late endosome membrane. HI Endosome membrane. HP Late endosome. GO GO:0031902; late endosome membrane // ID Lateral cell membrane. AC SL-0153 DE The portion of the plasma membrane at the lateral side of the cell. SY Lateral plasma membrane. SL Lateral cell membrane. HP Cell membrane. GO GO:0016328; lateral plasma membrane // ID Lipid droplet. AC SL-0154 DE The lipid droplet is a dynamic cytoplasmic organelle which consists of DE an heterogeneous macromolecular assembly of lipids and proteins DE covered by a unique phospholipid monolayer. Lipid droplets may play a DE role in lipid metabolism and storage, and they may be involved in the DE regulation of intracellular trafficking and signal transduction. SY Adiposome; Lipid bodies; Lipid body; Lipid particle; SY Monolayer-surrounded lipid storage body; Oil bodies; Oil body; SY Oleosome; Spherosome. SL Lipid droplet. KW KW-0551 GO GO:0005811; lipid droplet // IT Lipid-anchor. AC SL-9901 DE Protein bound to the lipid bilayer of a membrane through a DE posttranslationally modification by the attachment of at least one DE lipid or fatty acid, e.g. farnesyl, palmitate and myristate. SL Lipid-anchor. KW KW-0449 // IO Lumenal side. AC SL-9914 DE Protein found mostly on the lumenal side of the membrane. SL Lumenal side. // ID Lysosome. AC SL-0158 DE The lysosome is a membrane-limited organelle present in all eukaryotic DE cells, which contains a large number of hydrolytic enzymes that are DE used for degrading almost any kind of cellular constituent, including DE entire organelles. The mechanisms responsible for delivering DE cytoplasmic cargo to the lysosome/vacuole are known collectively as DE autophagy and play an important role in the maintenance of DE homeostasis. SL Lysosome. KW KW-0458 GO GO:0005764; lysosome AN Compartment specific marker: LAMP-1; LAMP-2?. // ID Lysosome lumen. AC SL-0156 DE The lumen of a lysosome is the volume enclosed within the lysosomal DE membrane. SY Lysosomal lumen. SL Lysosome lumen. HP Lysosome. GO GO:0043202; lysosomal lumen // ID Lysosome membrane. AC SL-0157 DE The membrane surrounding a lysosome. SY Lysosomal membrane. SL Lysosome membrane. HI Membrane. HP Endomembrane system. HP Lysosome. GO GO:0005765; lysosomal membrane // ID Lytic vacuole. AC SL-0159 DE The lytic vacuole is a plant specialized vacuole equivalent to animal DE lysosomes or yeast vacuoles, functioning as compartments for DE degradation and waste storage. SL Lytic vacuole. HI Vacuole. GO GO:0000323; lytic vacuole // ID M line. AC SL-0315 DE In electron micrographs of the sarcomere, the M line appears as a DE series of parallel electron-dense lines in the central zone of the A DE band impliing that the M line is needed for the regular packing of the DE thick filaments. The M line maintains the myosin filaments in a DE hexagonal lattice. SY M band; M-band; M-line. SL Cytoplasm, myofibril, sarcomere, M line. HP H zone. GO GO:0031430; M band WW http://www.sarcomere.org/ // ID Magnetosome. AC SL-0510 DE A specialized, membrane-bound bacterial organelle that envelops DE nanometer-sized crystals of magnetic iron minerals. They form linear DE chains at midcell along the cellular motility axis. SL Magnetosome. KW KW-1281 GO GO:0110143; magnetosome // ID Magnetosome lumen. AC SL-0511 DE The magnetosome lumen. SL Magnetosome, Magnetosome lumen. HP Magnetosome. GO GO:0110145; magnetosome lumen // ID Magnetosome membrane. AC SL-0512 DE The magnetosome membrane. SL Magnetosome membrane. HI Membrane. HP Magnetosome. GO GO:0110146; magnetosome membrane // IO Matrix side. AC SL-9913 DE Protein found mostly on the matrix side of the membrane. SL Matrix side. // ID Melanosome. AC SL-0161 DE The melanosome is a melanin-containing organelle found in melanocytes DE and melanophores. Fish and amphibians possess specialized cells, DE called melanophores, which contain hundreds of melanin-filled pigment DE granules, termed melanosomes. The sole function of these cells is DE pigment aggregation in the center of the cell or dispersion throughout DE the cytoplasm. This alternative transport of pigment allows the animal DE to effect color changes important for camouflage and social DE interactions. Melanophores transport their pigment in response to DE extracellular cues: neurotransmitters in the case of fish and hormonal DE stimuli in the case of frogs. In both cases, melanosome dispersion is DE induced by elevation of intracellular cAMP levels, while aggregation DE is triggered by depression of cAMP. The regulatory mechanisms DE downstream of these second-messengers are poorly understood. Mammalian DE melanocytes also produce melanosomes but, unlike melanophores, pigment DE in these cells is transported to the cell periphery for subsequent DE exocytosis to surrounding epithelial cells. SL Melanosome. GO GO:0042470; melanosome WW http://www.proweb.org/kinesin/Melanophore.html // ID Melanosome lumen. AC SL-0338 DE The melanosomal compartment bounded by the membrane surrounding a DE melanosome. SY Melanosomal lumen. SL Melanosome lumen. HP Melanosome. GO GO:0034493; melanosome lumen // ID Melanosome membrane. AC SL-0160 DE The membrane surrounding a melanosome. SY Melanosomal membrane. SL Melanosome membrane. HI Membrane. HP Endomembrane system. HP Melanosome. GO GO:0033162; melanosome membrane // ID Membrane. AC SL-0162 DE A membrane is a lipid bilayer which surrounds enclosed spaces and DE compartments. This selectively permeable structure is essential for DE effective separation of a cell or organelle from its surroundings. DE Membranes are composed of various types of molecules such as DE phospholipids, integral membrane proteins, peripheral proteins, DE glycoproteins, glycolipids, etc. The relative amounts of these DE components as well as the types of lipids are non-randomly distributed DE from membrane to membrane as well as between the two leaflets of a DE membrane. SL Membrane. KW KW-0472 GO GO:0016020; membrane // ID Membrane raft. AC SL-0370 DE Membrane rafts are small (10-200 nm), heterogeneous, highly dynamic, DE sterol- and sphingolipid-enriched domains that compartmentalize DE cellular processes. Small rafts can sometimes be stabilized to form DE larger platforms through protein-protein and protein-lipid DE interactions. Multiple types of rafts are likely to exist, based both DE on their lipid and protein composition. SY Lipid microdomain; Lipid raft; Membrane microdomain. SL Membrane raft. HP Endomembrane system. GO GO:0045121; membrane raft RX PubMed=16645198; DOI=10.1194/jlr.E600002-JLR200; // ID Microneme. AC SL-0163 DE The microneme is an Apicomplexan parasite organelle. Apicomplexa are DE named for the unique set of morphologically distinct secretory DE organelles (refered to as the apical complex)- micronemes, rhoptries DE and dense granules - whose sequential secretion is required for the DE invasion of host cells. Micronemes are the smallest, they are involved DE in the early stages of invasion. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, secretory vesicle, microneme. HI Secretory vesicle. GO GO:0020009; microneme // ID Microneme lumen. AC SL-0339 DE The micronemal compartment bounded by the membrane of a microneme. SY Micronemal lumen. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, secretory vesicle, microneme lumen. HI Secretory vesicle lumen. HP Microneme. GO GO:0034494; microneme lumen // ID Microneme membrane. AC SL-0164 DE The membrane surrounding a microneme. SY Micronemal membrane. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, secretory vesicle, microneme membrane. HI Secretory vesicle membrane. HP Microneme. GO GO:0033163; microneme membrane // ID Microsome. AC SL-0166 DE The microsomes are a heterogenous set of vesicles 20-200nm in diameter DE and formed from the endoplasmic reticulum when cells are disrupted. DE The vesicles are isolated by differential centrifugation and are DE composed of three structural features: rough vesicles, smooth vesicles DE and ribosomes. Numerous enzyme activities are associated with the DE microsomal fraction. SL Microsome. HP Endoplasmic reticulum. KW KW-0492 // ID Microsome membrane. AC SL-0165 DE The membrane surrounding the microsome. SY Microsomal membrane. SL Microsome membrane. HI Membrane. HP Endomembrane system. HP Microsome. // ID Microtubule organizing center. AC SL-0484 DE The microtubule organizing center (MTOC) is an intracellular structure DE that can catalyze gamma-tubulin-dependent microtubule nucleation and DE that can anchor microtubules. SY MTOC. SL Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, microtubule organizing center. HP Cytoskeleton. GO GO:0005815; microtubule organizing center // ID Microvillus. AC SL-0293 DE Microvilli are thin cylindrical dynamic cell projections containing a DE core bundle of actin filaments. They serve a diverse set of functions, DE such as increasing absorptive surface area in the epithelial brush DE border, tethering leukocytes to the surface of endothelial cells or DE participate in sperm-oocyte fusion. SY Microvilli. SL Cell projection, microvillus. HI Cell projection. GO GO:0005902; microvillus // ID Microvillus membrane. AC SL-0294 DE The portion of the cell membrane surrounding a microvillus. SY Microvillar membrane. SL Cell projection, microvillus membrane. HP Cell membrane. HP Microvillus. GO GO:0031528; microvillus membrane // ID Midbody. AC SL-0469 DE The midbody is the central region of the thin intercellular DE cytoplasmic bridge formed between daughter cells during cytokinesis. DE It consists of tightly bundled antiparallel microtubules, which DE embrace a phase-dense circular structure, called midbody ring. At the DE final stage of cytokinesis, the intercellular bridge is cleaved, in a DE process termed abscission, and two daughter cells are formed. DE Following abscission, the residual midbody structure, known as the DE midbody remnant or midbody derivative, can have different fates DE depending on the cell type. It can be either released to the DE extracellular medium, degraded by autophagy or persists in the DE cytoplasm, showing asymmetric accumulation in the daughter cells. SY Midbody derivative; Midbody remnant. SL Midbody. GO GO:0030496; midbody AN Some authors consider that Flemming body and Midbody are synonyms. AN This is not the case in UniProtKB, where we use Flemming body as a AN synonym for Midbody ring, a specific part of the midbody. If you have AN doubt, use the broader term, Midbody. // ID Midbody ring. AC SL-0490 DE The midbody ring is the central region of the midbody characterized by DE a gap in alpha-tubulin staining, although interdigitating microtubules DE persist through the gap. It is thought that high local protein density DE masks tubulin epitopes known to be present. The midbody ring serves as DE a scaffold for a wide variety of structural and regulatory proteins DE required for completion of cytokinesis. SY Flemming body; Stembody. SL Midbody, Midbody ring. HI Midbody. GO GO:0090543; Flemming body AN Some authors consider that Flemming body and Midbody are synonyms. AN This is not the case in UniProtKB, where we use Flemming body as a AN synonym for Midbody ring, a specific part of the midbody. If you have AN doubt, use the broader term, Midbody. // ID Mitochondrion. AC SL-0173 DE The mitochondrion is a semiautonomous, self-reproducing organelle that DE occurs in the cytoplasm of all cells of most, but not all, eukaryotes. DE Each mitochondrion is surrounded by a double limiting membrane. The DE inner membrane is highly invaginated, and its projections are called DE cristae. Mitochondria are the sites of the reactions of oxidative DE phosphorylation, which result in the formation of ATP. The size and DE coding capacity of the mitochondrial DNA varies considerably in DE different organisms, and encodes rRNAs, tRNAs and essential DE mitochondrial proteins. SL Mitochondrion. KW KW-0496 GO GO:0005739; mitochondrion // ID Mitochondrion envelope. AC SL-0167 DE The mitochondrial envelope comprises the inner and outer mitochondrial DE membrane including the intermembrane space. SY Mitochondrial envelope. SL Mitochondrion envelope. HP Mitochondrion. GO GO:0005740; mitochondrial envelope // ID Mitochondrion inner membrane. AC SL-0168 DE The inner membrane of a mitochondrion is the membrane which separates DE the mitochondrial matrix from the intermembrane space. SY Inner mitochondrial membrane; Mitochondrial inner membrane. SL Mitochondrion inner membrane. HI Mitochondrion membrane. KW KW-0999 GO GO:0005743; mitochondrial inner membrane // ID Mitochondrion intermembrane space. AC SL-0169 DE The mitochondrial intermembrane space is the space between inner and DE outer mitochondrial membrane. SY Mitochondrial intermembrane space; Mitochondrial periplasm; SY Mitochondrial periplasmic space. SL Mitochondrion intermembrane space. HP Mitochondrion envelope. GO GO:0005758; mitochondrial intermembrane space // ID Mitochondrion matrix. AC SL-0170 DE The matrix of a mitochondrion is the mitochondrion internal spaces DE enclosed by the inner membrane. Several of the steps in cellular DE respiration occur in the matrix due to its high concentration of DE enzymes. SY Mitochondrial matrix. SL Mitochondrion matrix. HP Mitochondrion. GO GO:0005759; mitochondrial matrix // ID Mitochondrion membrane. AC SL-0171 DE The membrane surrounding a mitochondrion. This term is used when it is DE not known if the protein is found in or associated with the inner or DE outer mitochondrial membrane. SY Mitochondrial membrane. SL Mitochondrion membrane. HI Membrane. HP Mitochondrion envelope. GO GO:0031966; mitochondrial membrane // ID Mitochondrion nucleoid. AC SL-0269 DE The mitochondrial nucleoid is the mitochondrial pseudocompartment DE formed by the chromatin-dense area. This region, which is functionally DE equivalent to the eukaryotic nucleus, is not surrounded by a membrane. SY Mitochondrial nucleoid; Mitochromosome. SL Mitochondrion matrix, mitochondrion nucleoid. HP Mitochondrion matrix. KW KW-1135 GO GO:0042645; mitochondrial nucleoid // ID Mitochondrion outer membrane. AC SL-0172 DE The outer membrane of a mitochondrion is the mitochondrial membrane DE facing the cytoplasm. SY Mitochondrial outer membrane; Outer mitochondrial membrane. SL Mitochondrion outer membrane. HI Mitochondrion membrane. KW KW-1000 GO GO:0005741; mitochondrial outer membrane // ID Mitosome. AC SL-0437 DE The mitosome is an organelle found in "amitochondrial" unicellular DE organisms which do not have the capability of gaining energy from DE oxidative phosphorylation. Mitosomes are almost certainly derived from DE mitochondria, they have a double membrane and most proteins are DE delivered to them by a targeting sequence. Unlike mitochondria, DE mitosomes do not contain any DNA. The mitosome functions in iron- DE sulphur cluster assembly. SL Mitosome. KW KW-1025 GO GO:0032047; mitosome // ID Mitosome envelope. AC SL-0438 DE The mitosomal envelope comprises the inner and outer mitosomal DE membrane including the intermembrane space. SY Mitosomal envelope. SL Mitosome envelope. HP Mitosome. // ID Mitosome inner membrane. AC SL-0439 DE The inner membrane of a mitosome is the membrane which separates the DE mitosomal matrix from the intermembrane space. SY Inner mitosomal membrane; Mitosomal inner membrane. SL Mitosome inner membrane. HI Mitosome membrane. // ID Mitosome intermembrane space. AC SL-0440 DE The mitosomal intermembrane space is the space between inner and outer DE mitosomal membranes. SY Mitosomal intermembrane space; Mitosomal periplasm; SY Mitosomal periplasmic space. SL Mitosome intermembrane space. HP Mitosome envelope. // ID Mitosome matrix. AC SL-0441 DE The matrix of a mitosome is the mitosomal internal spaces enclosed by DE the inner membrane. SY Mitosomal matrix. SL Mitosome matrix. HP Mitosome. // ID Mitosome membrane. AC SL-0442 DE The membrane surrounding a mitosome. This term is used when it is not DE known if the protein is found in or associated with the inner or outer DE mitosomal membrane. SY Mitosomal membrane. SL Mitosome membrane. HI Membrane. HP Mitosome envelope. // ID Mitosome outer membrane. AC SL-0443 DE The outer membrane of a mitosome is the mitosomal membrane facing the DE cytoplasm. SY Mitosomal outer membrane; Outer mitosomal membrane. SL Mitosome outer membrane. HI Mitosome membrane. // IT Multi-pass membrane protein. AC SL-9909 DE Protein spanning the membrane more than once. SY Multipass; Multi pass; Multi-pass; Multispan; Multi span; SY Polytopic membrane protein. SL Multi-pass membrane protein. HI Membrane. // ID Multivesicular body. AC SL-0174 DE The multivesicular bodies are a type of late endosome containing DE internal vesicles formed following the inward budding of the outer DE endosomal membrane. The contents of the MVBs are then released into DE the lysosome lumen. The proteins found in the limiting membrane of DE MVBs are recycled to other compartments. SY Corpuscula multivesicularis; ECV; Endosomal carrier vesicle; SY Multivesicular bodies; MVB. SL Endosome, multivesicular body. HI Late endosome. GO GO:0005771; multivesicular body WW http://www.uni-mainz.de/FB/Medizin/Anatomie/workshop/EM/EMMVBE.html // ID Multivesicular body lumen. AC SL-0340 DE The multivesicular body compartment bounded by the membrane of the DE multivesicular bodies. SY Corpuscula multivesicularis lumen; ECV lumen; SY Endosomal carrier vesicle lumen; Multivesicular bodies lumen; SY MVB lumen. SL Endosome, multivesicular body lumen. HI Endosome lumen. HP Multivesicular body. // ID Multivesicular body membrane. AC SL-0175 DE The membrane surrounding the multivesicular bodies. SY Corpuscula multivesicularis membrane; ECV membrane; SY Endosomal carrier vesicle membrane; Multivesicular bodies membrane; SY MVB membrane. SL Endosome, multivesicular body membrane. HI Endosome membrane. HP Multivesicular body. GO GO:0032585; multivesicular body membrane // ID Myelin membrane. AC SL-0176 DE The myelin membrane is the white matter coating our nerves, enabling DE them to conduct impulses between the brain and other parts of the DE body. It consists of a layer of proteins packed between two layers of DE lipids. This specialized cell membrane is produced by oligodendrocytes DE in the central nervous system, and Schwann cells in the peripheral DE nervous system. Myelin sheaths wrap themselves around axons, the DE threadlike extensions of neurons that make up nerve fibers. Each DE oligodendrocyte can myelinate several axons. The major function of DE myelin is to increase the velocity of propagation of nerve impulses. SY Myelin; Myelin sheath. SL Myelin membrane. HI Cell membrane. GO GO:0043209; myelin sheath WW https://www.myelin.org/ // ID Myofibril. AC SL-0312 DE A myofibril is a long cylindrical organelle found in muscle cells DE formed by two transverse filament systems: the thick and thin DE filaments. The thin filament is composed primarily of actin; it is DE tethered at one end to the Z-disk, and it interdigitates with the DE thick filaments. The main constituent of the thick filament is myosin; DE the direction of the myosin heads changes polarity at the M-line, DE allowing interaction with the thin filaments anchored from the next DE adjacent Z-disk. A third and a fourth filament complex exist, DE comprising the giant proteins titin and nebulin. SL Cytoplasm, myofibril. HI Sarcoplasm. GO GO:0030016; myofibril // ID Nematocyst. AC SL-0177 DE The nematocyst is an organelle found in nematoblast (cnidoblast) DE cells. When matured, these stinging organelles store toxins and can DE deliver them when the cnidocil (a short extension of the nematocyst) DE is stimulated by a prey or another stimulus. These proteins are DE principally found in anemones and jellyfishes. SY Cnidocyst. SL Nematocyst. KW KW-0166 GO GO:0042151; nematocyst // ID Neuron projection. AC SL-0518 DE Prolongation or process extending from a nerve cell, such as an axon DE or a dendrite. Used when speaking of immature or developing neurons, DE especially of cells in culture, because it can be difficult to tell DE axons from dendrites before differentiation is complete. SY Neurite; Neuronal process. SL Cell projection, neuron projection. HI Cell projection. GO GO:0043005; neuron projection // ID Neuronal dense core vesicle. AC SL-0526 DE Dense core vesicle that is part of a neuron. Stores and releases DE neuropeptides (peptide neurotransmitters) and neurotrophins by DE exocytosis. Filled with cargo at the Golgi network, they are DE transported through axons and dendrites to the synapses where the DE release takes place. They can be found in all parts of neurons, DE including the soma, dendrites, axonal swellings (varicosities) and DE synaptic terminals. SY Large dense-core vesicles; Neuronal dense core granule; SY Neuronal large dense-core vesicles. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, secretory vesicle, neuronal dense core vesicle. HI Secretory vesicle. GO GO:0098992; neuronal dense core vesicle // ID Neuronal dense core vesicle membrane. AC SL-0532 DE The membrane surrounding a neuronal dense core vesicle. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, secretory vesicle, neuronal dense core vesicle membrane. HI Secretory vesicle membrane. HP Neuronal dense core vesicle. GO GO:0099012; neuronal dense core vesicle membrane // ID Nuclear body. AC SL-0494 DE Nuclear body is a collective term for several nuclear, extra- DE nucleolar, non-membrane-bound sub-compartments, including, but not DE limited to Cajal bodies, Gemini of Cajal bodies (gems), nuclear DE speckles and PML bodies. Nuclear bodies are visible as distinct spots DE in the nucleoplasm. They can vary in number and size depending on the DE cell line and the type of nuclear body. SL Nucleus, nuclear body. HP Nucleus. GO GO:0016604; nuclear body // ID Nuclear pore complex. AC SL-0185 DE The nuclear pore complex (NPC) constitutes the exclusive means of DE nucleocytoplasmic transport in eukaryotes during interphase. NPCs DE allow the passive diffusion of ions and small molecules (up to about DE 20 kDa or 5 nm) and the active, nuclear transport receptor DE (karyopherin: importin and exportin)-mediated bidirectional transport DE of macromolecules such as proteins, RNAs, ribonucleoprotein (RNPs), DE and ribosomal subunits (up to about 10 MDa) across the double-membrane DE nuclear envelope. NPC components, collectively referred to as DE nucleoporins (NUPs), can play the role of both NPC structural DE components and of docking or interaction partners for transiently DE associated nuclear transport factors. The NPC is composed of at least DE 30 distinct subunits, shows 8-fold rotational symmetry with DE specialized structures on the cyto- and nucleoplasmic side and in the DE nuclear envelope embedded core. The MW varies from about 44-60 MDa in DE S. cerevisiae to 60-120 MDa in vertebrates, yet the overall DE architecture is conserved. SY NPC; Nuclear pore. SL Nucleus, nuclear pore complex. HP Nucleus envelope. KW KW-0906 GO GO:0005643; nuclear pore // ID Nucleoid. AC SL-0187 DE The nucleoid is the prokaryotic pseudocompartment formed by the DE chromatin-dense area. This region, which is functionally equivalent to DE the eukaryotic nucleus, is not surrounded by a membrane. SL Cytoplasm, nucleoid. HP Cytoplasm. GO GO:0009295; nucleoid // ID Nucleolus. AC SL-0188 DE The nucleolus is a non-membrane bound nuclear compartment found in DE eukaryotic cells which is the site of ribosome biogenesis. The DE interphase nucleolus is organized around the tandemly repeated genes DE for preribosomal RNA (rRNA). It is composed of at least 2 sub- DE compartments: the dense fibrillar component (DFC, also called pars DE fibrosa) and the granular component (GC or pars granulosa). The DFC DE contains newly synthesized preribosomal RNA and a collection of DE proteins; the GC is made up of nearly completed preribosomal particles DE destined for the cytoplasm. In most metazoans, but generally not in DE lower eukaryotes, a third component, the fibrillar center (FC), can be DE seen. Plant and animal nuclei can contain more than one nucleolus. SY Nucleoli. SL Nucleus, nucleolus. HP Nucleus. GO GO:0005730; nucleolus // ID Nucleolus fibrillar center. AC SL-0497 DE The nucleolus fibrillar center (FC) is a sub-compartment of most DE metazoan nucleoli. The transcription of ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes DE generates 2 structures that are found in all nucleoli: the dense DE fibrillar component (DFC) and the granular component (GC). The DFC DE contains newly synthesized preribosomal RNA and a collection of DE proteins; the GC is made up of nearly completed preribosomal particles DE destined for the cytoplasm. In most metazoans, but generally not in DE lower eukaryotes, a third component, the FC, can be seen. The FC is DE surrounded by the DFC. The zone of transcription from multiple copy DE rRNA genes is in the border region between these 2 structures. SY Nucleoli fibrillar center. SL Nucleus, nucleolus fibrillar center. HP Nucleolus. GO GO:0001650; fibrillar center // ID Nucleomorph. AC SL-0189 DE Nucleomorphs are vestigial endosymbiont found in cryptomonads and DE chlorachniophytes algae. These organisms respectively retain an DE enslaved red or green algal nucleus. SL Nucleomorph. KW KW-0542 GO GO:0033009; nucleomorph // ID Nucleoplasm. AC SL-0190 DE The nucleoplasm is a highly viscous liquid contained within the DE nucleus that surrounds the chromosomes and other subnuclear DE organelles. A network of fibers known as the nuclear matrix can also DE be found in the nucleoplasm. SY Karyolymph; Karyoplasm. SL Nucleus, nucleoplasm. HP Nucleus. GO GO:0005654; nucleoplasm // IO Nucleoplasmic side. AC SL-9915 DE Protein found mostly on the nucleoplasmic side of the membrane. SL Nucleoplasmic side. // ID Nucleus. AC SL-0191 DE The nucleus is the most obvious organelle in any eukaryotic cell. It DE is a membrane-bound organelle surrounded by double membranes which DE contains most of the cell's genetic material. It communicates with the DE surrounding cytosol via numerous nuclear pores. SY Nuclear; Nuclei. SL Nucleus. KW KW-0539 GO GO:0005634; nucleus // ID Nucleus envelope. AC SL-0178 DE The nuclear envelope is a membrane system which surrounds the DE nucleoplasm of eukaryotic cells. It is composed of the nuclear lamina, DE nuclear pore complexes and two nuclear membranes. The space between DE the two membranes is called the nuclear intermembrane space. SY Karyotheca; Nuclear envelope; Nucleolemma; Perinuclear envelope. SL Nucleus envelope. HP Nucleus. GO GO:0005635; nuclear envelope // ID Nucleus inner membrane. AC SL-0179 DE The inner membrane of the nucleus is the membrane which separates the DE nuclear matrix from the intermembrane space. In mammals, the inner DE nuclear membrane is associated with heterochromatin and the nuclear DE lamina. SY Inner nuclear membrane; Nuclear inner membrane. SL Nucleus inner membrane. HI Nucleus membrane. GO GO:0005637; nuclear inner membrane // ID Nucleus intermembrane space. AC SL-0184 DE The nuclear intermembrane space is the space between the inner and DE outer nuclear membranes. SY Nuclear envelope lumen; Nuclear intermembrane space; SY Nuclear periplasm; Nuclear periplasmic space; Nucleus envelope lumen; SY Perinuclear space. SL Nucleus intermembrane space. HP Nucleus envelope. GO GO:0005641; nuclear envelope lumen // ID Nucleus lamina. AC SL-0180 DE The nuclear lamina is a meshwork of intermediate filament proteins DE called lamins and lamin-binding proteins that are embedded in the DE inner nuclear membrane. SY Nuclear lamina. SL Nucleus lamina. HP Nucleus envelope. GO GO:0005652; nuclear lamina // ID Nucleus matrix. AC SL-0181 DE The nuclear matrix is a three-dimensional filamentous protein network, DE found in the nucleoplasm, which provides a structural framework for DE organising chromatin, while facilitating transcription and DE replication. SY Nuclear matrix; Nuclear scaffold; Nuclear skeleton. SL Nucleus matrix. HP Nucleus. GO GO:0016363; nuclear matrix // ID Nucleus membrane. AC SL-0182 DE The membrane surrounding the nucleus. This term is used when it is not DE known if the protein is found in or associated with the inner or outer DE nuclear membrane. SY Nuclear membrane. SL Nucleus membrane. HI Membrane. HP Endomembrane system. HP Nucleus envelope. GO GO:0031965; nuclear membrane // ID Nucleus outer membrane. AC SL-0183 DE The outer membrane of the nucleus is the membrane facing the DE cytoplasm. In mammals, the outer nuclear membrane is continuous in DE many places with the rough endoplasmic reticulum and is dotted with DE ribosomes. SY Nuclear outer membrane; Outer nuclear membrane. SL Nucleus outer membrane. HI Nucleus membrane. GO GO:0005640; nuclear outer membrane // ID Nucleus speckle. AC SL-0186 DE The nuclear speckles are small subnuclear membraneless organelles or DE structures, also called the splicing factor (SF) compartments that DE correspond to nuclear domains located in interchromatin regions of the DE nucleoplasm of mammalian cells. Protein found in speckles serves as a DE reservoir of factors that participate in transcription and pre-mRNA DE processing. Speckles appear, at the immunofluorescence-microscope DE level, as irregular, punctuate structures, which vary in size and DE shape. Usually 25-50 speckles are observed per interphase mammalian DE nucleus. At the electronic-microscope level, they are composed of DE heterogeneous mixture of electro-dense particles with diameters DE ranging from 20-25 nm and are called interchromatin granules clusters DE (IGCs). Speckles are dynamic structures. Both their protein and RNA- DE protein components can cycle continuously between speckles and other DE nuclear locations depending on the transcriptional state of the cell. DE Structures similar to nuclear speckles have been identified in the DE amphibian oocyte nucleus (called B snurposomes) and in Drosophila DE melanogaster embryos, but not in yeast. SY B snurposome; IGC; Interchromatin granules clusters; Nuclear speck; SY Nuclear speckle; SF compartments; Splicing Factor compartments; SY Splicing speckle. SL Nucleus speckle. HI Nuclear body. HP Nucleus. GO GO:0016607; nuclear speck // ID Organellar chromatophore. AC SL-0351 DE The organellar chromatophore is the photosynthetic inclusion found in DE Paulinella species, which are photosynthetic thecate amoeba. It DE probably derives from a different endosymbiotic event than that which DE led to all other plastids. Houses the machinery necessary for DE photosynthesis and CO(2) fixation and may also be able to make a few DE amino acids, some fatty acids and a few cofactors. They are surrounded DE by 2 membranes, between which is found a residual peptidoglycan wall, DE and contain thylakoids. SL Plastid, organellar chromatophore. HI Plastid. KW KW-0994 GO GO:0070111; organellar chromatophore // ID Organellar chromatophore inner membrane. AC SL-0359 DE The organellar chromatophore inner membrane is the membrane which DE separates the chromatophore stroma from the intermembrane space. Found DE exclusively in Paulinella species, which are photosynthetic thecate DE amoeba. SL Plastid, organellar chromatophore inner membrane. HI Plastid inner membrane. HI Organellar chromatophore membrane. HP Organellar chromatophore. GO GO:0070113; organellar chromatophore inner membrane // ID Organellar chromatophore intermembrane space. AC SL-0360 DE The intermembrane space between the inner and the outer organellar DE chromatophore membranes. Found exclusively in Paulinella species, DE which are photosynthetic thecate amoeba. SL Plastid, organellar chromatophore intermembrane space. HI Plastid intermembrane space. HP Organellar chromatophore. GO GO:0070115; organellar chromatophore intermembrane space // ID Organellar chromatophore membrane. AC SL-0352 DE One of the membranes of an organellar chromatophore. This term is used DE when it is not known with which membrane (outer membrane, inner DE membrane or thylakoid) a protein is associated. Found exclusively in DE Paulinella species, which are photosynthetic thecate amoeba. SL Plastid, organellar chromatophore membrane. HI Plastid membrane. HP Organellar chromatophore. GO GO:0070112; organellar chromatophore membrane // ID Organellar chromatophore outer membrane. AC SL-0361 DE The organellar chromatophore outer membrane is the organellar DE chromatophore membrane facing the cytoplasm. Found exclusively in DE Paulinella species, which are photosynthetic thecate amoeba. SL Plastid, organellar chromatophore outer membrane. HI Plastid outer membrane. HI Organellar chromatophore membrane. HP Organellar chromatophore. GO GO:0070114; organellar chromatophore outer membrane // ID Organellar chromatophore stroma. AC SL-0353 DE The internal space enclosed by the organellar chromatophore double DE membrane but excluding the thylakoid space. This space, filled with a DE colorless hydrophilic matrix, contains DNA, ribosomes and some DE temporary products of photosynthesis; other biosynthetic functions DE that could also occur there include amino acid, fatty acid and some DE cofactor biosynthesis. Found exclusively in Paulinella species, which DE are photosynthetic thecate amoeba. SY Organellar chromatophore plasma. SL Plastid, organellar chromatophore stroma. HI Plastid stroma. HP Organellar chromatophore. // ID Organellar chromatophore thylakoid. AC SL-0354 DE The thylakoid of an organellar chromatophore is an internal system of DE interconnected membranes that carry the complexes for the light DE reactions of photosynthesis. Found exclusively in Paulinella species, DE which are photosynthetic thecate amoeba. SL Plastid, organellar chromatophore thylakoid. HI Plastid thylakoid. HP Organellar chromatophore. GO GO:0070116; organellar chromatophore thylakoid // ID Organellar chromatophore thylakoid lumen. AC SL-0355 DE The organellar chromatophore thylakoid lumen is the compartment DE bounded by the thylakoid membrane. Found exclusively in Paulinella DE species, which are photosynthetic thecate amoeba. SL Plastid, organellar chromatophore thylakoid lumen. HI Plastid thylakoid lumen. HP Organellar chromatophore thylakoid. GO GO:0070117; organellar chromatophore thylakoid lumen // ID Organellar chromatophore thylakoid membrane. AC SL-0356 DE The organellar chromatophore thylakoid membrane is an internal system DE of interconnected membranes that house the complexes which carry out DE the light reactions of photosynthesis. Found exclusively in Paulinella DE species, which are photosynthetic thecate amoeba. SL Plastid, organellar chromatophore thylakoid membrane. HI Plastid thylakoid membrane. HP Organellar chromatophore thylakoid. GO GO:0070118; organellar chromatophore thylakoid membrane // ID P-body. AC SL-0230 DE P-bodies are dynamic non-membrane bound cytoplasmic structures. These DE discrete foci function in mRNA decay (decapping and breakdown), RNA- DE mediated gene silencing (microRNA and siRNA-based gene silencing), DE mRNA surveillance (or quality control) and translational control. In DE addition to being sites of mRNA degradation, P-bodies can temporarily DE sequester mRNAs away from the translation machinery. P-bodies are DE present in unstressed cells, but are further induced in response to DE various stresses. SY Cytoplasmic mRNA processing body; DCP bodies; Dcp body; Gawky bodies; SY Gawky body; GW182 bodies; GW182 body; GWB; GW bodies; GW body; SY mRNA-decay foci; mRNA processing bodies; mRNA processing body; PB; SY P bodies; P-bodies; P body; Processing bodies; Processing body. SL Cytoplasm, P-body. HI Cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein granule. GO GO:0000932; P-body RX PubMed=17183357; DOI=10.1038/nrm2080; // ID Paranodal septate junction. AC SL-0192 DE The paranodal septate junction (PSJ) in vertebrate species is an DE occluding complex which occurs between neurons and the glial cells DE that myelinate them, the oligodendrocytes and the Schwann cells. Each DE glial cell wraps around and contacts the neuron multiple times in a DE spiral pattern to form the paranodal loops. The paranodal loops DE tightly adhere to the axon through a continuous spiral of axo-glial DE junctions that resemble invertebrate septate junctions (SJs). The DE paranodal loops are a spiraled cytoplasmic channel that is contiguous DE with the perikaryon of the myelin forming cell and thus can serve as a DE conduit for transmitting axonally induced signals that could regulate DE glial gene transcription. These junctions also form a physical barrier DE that prevents diffusion of nodal sodium channels and juxtaparanodal DE potassium channels. Axo-glial paranodal junctions, therefore, share DE adhesion, diffusion barrier and putative intercellular communication DE functions with invertebrate SJs. SY Paranodal junction; PSJ. SL Cell junction, paranodal septate junction. HI Cell junction. GO GO:0033010; paranodal junction AN Add "Cell membrane" if the protein is clearly associated with the AN membrane. // ID Parasitophorous vacuole. AC SL-0194 DE The parasitophorous vacuole is a vacuole found in the host cells where DE most apicomplexan parasites reside and develop. During host cell DE invasion, the apicomplexan parasites initiate the formation of a DE membrane (the parasitophorous vacuolar membrane), which surrounds the DE intracellular parasite. SL Parasitophorous vacuole. GO GO:0020003; symbiont-containing vacuole // ID Parasitophorous vacuole lumen. AC SL-0341 DE The parasitophorous vacuole compartment bounded by the membrane of the DE parasitophorous vacuole. SY Parasitophorous vacuolar lumen. SL Parasitophorous vacuole lumen. HP Parasitophorous vacuole. // ID Parasitophorous vacuole membrane. AC SL-0193 DE The membrane surrounding the parasitophorous vacuole. SY Parasitophorous vacuolar membrane. SL Parasitophorous vacuole membrane. HI Membrane. HP Parasitophorous vacuole. GO GO:0020005; symbiont-containing vacuole membrane // IT Peptidoglycan-anchor. AC SL-9900 DE Surface protein of a Gram-positive bacteria anchored to the cell wall DE envelope by a transpeptidation mechanism which requires a C-terminal DE sorting signal with a conserved LPXTG motif. An amide bond is created DE between the carboxyl-group of the conserved threonine and the amino- DE group of peptidoglycan cross-bridges. SL Peptidoglycan-anchor. KW KW-0572 // ID Peribacteroid membrane. AC SL-0195 DE Symbiosis leads to the formation of a new compartment in the plant DE cell when bacteria enter the plant cell by endocytosis, the DE symbiosome. This compartment harbours the bacteroids surrounded by a DE peribacteroid membrane (PMB) originating from the plant plasma DE membrane. The space between this membrane and the bacteroid membrane DE is called the peribacteroid space. SL Symbiosome, peribacteroid membrane. HI Membrane. HP Endomembrane system. HP Symbiosome. GO GO:0043661; peribacteroid membrane // ID Peribacteroid space. AC SL-0196 DE Symbiosis lead to the formation of a new compartment in the plant cell DE when bacteria enter the plant cell by endocytosis. This compartment DE harbours the bacteroids surrounded by a peribacteroid membrane (PMB) DE originating from the plant plasma membrane. The space between this DE membrane and the bacteroid membrane is called the peribacteroid space. SL Symbiosome, peribacteroid space. HP Symbiosome. GO GO:0043662; peribacteroid fluid // ID Perikaryon. AC SL-0197 DE The perikaryon is the cell body of a neuron. SY cell body; Perikarya; soma. SL Perikaryon. GO GO:0043204; perikaryon // ID Perinuclear region. AC SL-0198 DE The perinuclear region is the cytoplasmic region just around the DE nucleus. SY Nuclear periphery; Perinuclear region of cytoplasm. SL Cytoplasm, perinuclear region. HP Cytoplasm. GO GO:0048471; perinuclear region of cytoplasm // ID Perinuclear theca. AC SL-0199 DE The perinuclear theca is a cytoskeletal structure that covers the DE nucleus of mammalian spermatozoa except for a narrow zone around the DE insertion of the tail. It shows two distinct regions, a subacrosomal DE layer or perforatorium and, continuing caudally beyond the acrosomic DE system, the postacrosomal sheath. SL Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, perinuclear theca. HP Cytoskeleton. GO GO:0033011; perinuclear theca // IT Peripheral membrane protein. AC SL-9903 DE Protein that is physically associated with a membrane, via DE interactions with lipid headgroups at the membrane surface or with DE another membrane protein. Peripheral membrane proteins are typically DE bound to the membrane surface, but may dip slightly into the lipid DE bilayer. Peripheral membrane protein. SL Peripheral membrane protein. HI Membrane. // ID Periplasm. AC SL-0200 DE The periplasm is the space between the inner and outer membrane in DE Gram-negative bacteria. In Gram-positive bacteria a smaller DE periplasmic space is found between the inner membrane and the DE peptidoglycan layer. Also used for the intermembrane spaces of fungi DE and organelles. SY Periplasmic space. SL Periplasm. HP Cell envelope. KW KW-0574 GO GO:0042597; periplasmic space // ID Periplasmic flagellum. AC SL-0201 DE Spirochetes have a flagellum that resides inside the cell within the DE periplasmic space. The number of flagella varies from species to DE species. The rotation of these structures results in specific DE movements of the cell body, which in turn enable the locomotion of the DE cell. In particular they impart spirochetes the ability to propel DE themselves through viscous media that would inhibit the rotation of DE external flagellar filaments. SY Endoflagellum; Periplasmic fibril. SL Periplasmic flagellum. HI Bacterial flagellum. GO GO:0055040; periplasmic flagellum RX PubMed=15170401; DOI=10.1159/000077867; // IO Periplasmic side. AC SL-9916 DE Protein found mostly on the periplasmic side of the membrane. SL Periplasmic side. // ID Perispore. AC SL-0367 DE Protein found in the perispore. The perispore corresponds to the outer DE surface layer of mature bacterial spores and eukaryotic spores. The DE perispore, also called perine or exosporium, represents the primary DE contact surface between the spore and environment/host and is a site DE of spore antigens. SY Exosporium; Perine. SL Spore, perispore. HP Spore. // ID Peroxisome. AC SL-0204 DE The peroxisome is a small eukaryotic organelle limited by a single DE membrane, specialized for carrying out oxidative reactions. Contains DE mainly peroxidases, several other oxidases and catalase. The catalase DE regulates the contents of the produced toxic hydrogen peroxide thus DE protecting the cell. Beta-oxidation of fatty acids is another major DE function of peroxisomes. In plants and fungi this degradation occurs DE only in this cellular compartment. SL Peroxisome. KW KW-0576 GO GO:0005777; peroxisome // ID Peroxisome matrix. AC SL-0202 DE The matrix of a peroxisome is the area enclosed by the peroxisomal DE membrane. SY Peroxisomal matrix. SL Peroxisome matrix. HP Peroxisome. GO GO:0005782; peroxisomal matrix // ID Peroxisome membrane. AC SL-0203 DE The membrane surrounding a peroxysome. SY Peroxisomal membrane. SL Peroxisome membrane. HI Membrane. HP Endomembrane system. HP Peroxisome. GO GO:0005778; peroxisomal membrane // ID Phagocytic cup. AC SL-0473 DE Cup-shaped invaginations of the cell membrane that subsequently close DE at their distal margins to form phagosomes during phagocytosis. By DE progression of its rim along the particle surface, this phagocytic cup DE envelops and eventually encloses the particle by separation of the DE phagosome membrane from the cell membrane. Filamentous actin DE accumulates between the outer and inner leaflet of the cup membrane DE and is most strongly enriched at the rim of the cup, the site of its DE protrusion. SL Cell projection, phagocytic cup. HI Cell projection. GO GO:0001891; phagocytic cup // ID Phagosome. AC SL-0206 DE The phagosome is a phagocytic cell-specific compartment. These large DE endocytic membrane-bound vesicles form upon ingestion by the cell of DE extracellular materials. SY Phagocytic vesicle. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, phagosome. HI Cytoplasmic vesicle. GO GO:0045335; phagocytic vesicle // ID Phagosome lumen. AC SL-0342 DE The phagosomal compartment bounded by the membrane a phagosome. SY Phagocytic vesicle lumen; Phagosomal lumen. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, phagosome lumen. HI Cytoplasmic vesicle lumen. HP Phagosome. // ID Phagosome membrane. AC SL-0205 DE The membrane surrounding a phagosome. SY Phagocytic vesicle membrane; Phagosomal membrane. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, phagosome membrane. HI Cytoplasmic vesicle membrane. HP Phagosome. GO GO:0030670; phagocytic vesicle membrane // ID Photoreceptor inner segment. AC SL-0457 DE The inner segment of a vertebrate photoreceptor containing DE mitochondria, ribosomes and membranes where opsin molecules are DE assembled and passed to be part of the outer segment discs. SL Photoreceptor inner segment. GO GO:0001917; photoreceptor inner segment // ID Photoreceptor inner segment membrane. AC SL-0514 DE The membrane surrounding the inner segment of a vertebrate DE photoreceptor. SL Photoreceptor inner segment membrane. HI Membrane. DE HP Endomembrane system. HP . SL Photoreceptor inner segment membrane. HI Membrane. HP Endomembrane system. HP Photoreceptor inner segment. // ID Photoreceptor outer segment. AC SL-0458 DE The outer segment of a vertebrate photoreceptor that contains discs of DE photoreceptive membranes. SL Cell projection, cilium, photoreceptor outer segment. HI Cilium. GO GO:0001750; photoreceptor outer segment // ID Photoreceptor outer segment membrane. AC SL-0513 DE The membrane surrounding the outer segment of a vertebrate DE photoreceptor. SL Photoreceptor outer segment membrane. HI Membrane. HP Endomembrane system. HP Photoreceptor outer segment. // ID Phragmoplast. AC SL-0207 DE The phragmoplast is a plant cell specific structure that forms during DE late cytokinesis. This complex assembly of microtubules, actin DE filaments and associated molecules acts as a framework for cell plate DE assembly and subsequent formation of the future cell wall separating DE the two daughter cells. SL Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, phragmoplast. HP Cytoskeleton. GO GO:0009524; phragmoplast // ID Plasmodesma. AC SL-0208 DE The plasmodesma (plural plasmodesmata) is a plasma membrane-lined DE channel that crosses the cell wall between two adjacent plant cells DE and which allows a cytoplasmic exchange between the cells. It provides DE passage of ions and small molecules, but also of macromolecules such DE as RNA or proteins. Plasmodesmata are sheathed by a plasma membrane DE that is simply an extension of the cell membrane of the adjoining DE cells. Most plasmodesmata have a narrow cylindrical desmotubule at the DE center that is derived from the ER and appears to be continuous with DE the ER of both cells. SY PD; Plasmodesmata. SL Cell junction, plasmodesma. HI Cell junction. GO GO:0009506; plasmodesma AN Add "Cell membrane" if the protein is clearly associated with the AN membrane. // ID Plastid. AC SL-0209 DE The plastid is a semi-autonomous, self-reproducing organelle. Plastids DE are remnants of a photosynthetic organism that was engulfed by the DE host, although not all are now photosynthetic. Plastid genomes encode DE genes for rRNAs, tRNAs and between about 28 and 150 proteins. Plastids DE can be categorized in 4 main groups: chloroplasts, cyanelles, DE apicoplasts and non-photosynthetic. The latter are found is some land DE plants (Epifagus virginiana), chlorophyte algae (Prototheca DE wickerhamii) and euglenoids (Astasis longa), which do not encode the DE genes necessary for photosynthesis and so are not photosynthetic but DE still contain a plastid. Non-photosynthetic plastids probably do not DE contain thylakoids. SL Plastid. KW KW-0934 GO GO:0009536; plastid // ID Plastid envelope. AC SL-0210 DE The envelope of a plastid comprises the inner and outer plastid DE membrane including the intermembrane space. SY Plastidic envelope. SL Plastid envelope. HP Plastid. GO GO:0009526; plastid envelope // ID Plastid inner membrane. AC SL-0211 DE The inner membrane of a plastid separates the plastid stroma from the DE intermembrane space. SY Inner plastidic membrane; Inner plastid membrane; SY Plastidic inner membrane. SL Plastid inner membrane. HI Plastid membrane. KW KW-1001 GO GO:0009528; plastid inner membrane // ID Plastid intermembrane space. AC SL-0212 DE The plastid intermembrane space is the space between the plastid inner DE and outer membranes. SY Plastidic intermembrane space. SL Plastid intermembrane space. HP Plastid envelope. GO GO:0009529; plastid intermembrane space // ID Plastid membrane. AC SL-0213 DE The membrane surrounding or within a plastid. Also used when it is not DE clear in which plastid membrane (outer membrane, inner membrane or DE thylakoid) a protein is found. SY Plastidic membrane. SL Plastid membrane. HI Membrane. HP Plastid envelope. GO GO:0042170; plastid membrane // ID Plastid nucleoid. AC SL-0140 DE The plastid nucleoid is the plastidic pseudocompartment formed by the DE chromatin-dense area. This region, which is functionally equivalent to DE the eukaryotic nucleus, is not surrounded by a membrane. SY Plastidic nucleoid. SL Plastid stroma, plastid nucleoid. HP Plastid stroma. GO GO:0042646; plastid nucleoid // ID Plastid outer membrane. AC SL-0214 DE The outer membrane of a plastid is the membrane facing the cytoplasm. SY Outer plastidic membrane; Outer plastid membrane; SY Plastidic outer membrane. SL Plastid outer membrane. HI Plastid membrane. KW KW-1002 GO GO:0009527; plastid outer membrane // ID Plastid stroma. AC SL-0215 DE The stroma of a plastid is the internal space enclosed by the plastid DE double membrane but excluding the thylakoid space. This space, filled DE with a colorless hydrophilic matrix. SY Plastidic stroma. SL Plastid stroma. HP Plastid. GO GO:0009532; plastid stroma // ID Plastid thylakoid. AC SL-0278 DE The thylakoid of a plastid is an internal system of interconnected DE membranes found within a plastid. SY Plastidic thylakoid. SL Plastid thylakoid. HI Thylakoid. HP Plastid. GO GO:0031976; plastid thylakoid // ID Plastid thylakoid lumen. AC SL-0309 DE The plastid thylakoid lumen is the plastid compartment bounded by the DE thylakoid membranes. SY Plastid thylakoidal lumen. SL Plastid thylakoid lumen. HP Plastid thylakoid. GO GO:0031978; plastid thylakoid lumen // ID Plastid thylakoid membrane. AC SL-0216 DE The thylakoid membranes of a plastid is an internal system of DE interconnected membranes found in a plastid. SY Plastid thylakoidal membrane. SL Plastid thylakoid membrane. HI Membrane. HP Plastid thylakoid. GO GO:0055035; plastid thylakoid membrane // ID Plastoglobule. AC SL-0217 DE A plastoglobule is a conspicuous lipid-containing structure in the DE chloroplast stroma thought to serve as lipid reservoirs for thylakoid DE membranes. SL Plastid, chloroplast, plastoglobule. HP Chloroplast. GO GO:0010287; plastoglobule // ID PML body. AC SL-0465 DE The PML bodies are dynamic nuclear protein aggregates interspersed DE between chromatin. These punctate nuclear structures are call PML DE bodies because the PML gene is essential for their formation. These DE discrete nuclear foci, 0.2-1.0 micrometer wide, are present in most DE mammalian cell nuclei and typically number 1 to 30 bodies per nucleus, DE depending on the cell type, cell-cycle phase and differentiation DE stage. Recent evidence implies that, although they appear to be DE uniform, PML-NBs are structurally and functionally heterogeneous and DE are dynamic structures. SY Kremer body; ND10; Nuclear domains-10; PML-NB; PML-nuclear body; SY PML oncogenic domain; Promyelocytic leukaemia nuclear body; SY Promyelocytic leukemia nuclear body. SL Nucleus, PML body. HI Nuclear body. HP Nucleus. GO GO:0016605; PML body RX PubMed=17928811; DOI=10.1038/nrm2277; // ID Podosome. AC SL-0295 DE The podosome is a ring-like cell protrusion which mediates cell- DE extracellular matrix interactions. Podosomes are composed of an actin- DE bundle core, flanked by a ring containing adhesion proteins connected DE to the core via dome-like radial actin fibers. Podosomes are rich in DE actin filaments, matrix-degrading enzymes, focal adhesion molecules DE and molecules involved in vesicle trafficking. These structures DE protrudes into the extracellular matrix and are essential for invasion DE and metastasis. Classical podosomes are highly dynamic structures DE formed by cell types of monocytic origin, such as macrophages, DE dendritic cells, and osteoclasts. SL Cell projection, podosome. HI Cell junction. HI Cell projection. GO GO:0002102; podosome // ID Podosome membrane. AC SL-0296 DE The portion of the cell membrane surrounding a podosome. SY Podosomal membrane. SL Cell projection, podosome membrane. HP Cell membrane. HP Podosome. // ID Pollen coat. AC SL-0371 DE The relatively impermeable, lipidic layer which surrounds the outer DE exine layer of a pollen grain. SY Pollenkitt. SL Secreted, extracellular space, extracellular matrix, pollen coat. HI Extracellular matrix. GO GO:0070505; pollen coat // ID Porosome. AC SL-0218 DE The porosome is an actin-regulated dynamic structure at the cell DE membrane, where membrane-bound secretory vesicles dock and fuse to DE release their contents. SL Cell membrane, porosome. HP Cell membrane. GO GO:0033012; porosome // ID Postsynapse. AC SL-0515 DE The receiving part of a synapse which contains the neurotransmitter- DE receptor scaffold and signaling machinery to respond to signals from DE the presynaptic cell. SY Post-synapse; Postsynaptic region; Postsynaptic terminal. SL Postsynapse. HP Synapse. GO GO:0098794; postsynapse // ID Postsynaptic cell membrane. AC SL-0219 DE In a chemical synapse, specialized area of the membrane that receives DE a signal (binds neurotransmitter) from the presynaptic cell and DE responds via depolarization or hyperpolarization. The postsynaptic DE membrane is separated from the presynaptic membrane by the synaptic DE cleft. SY Postsynaptic membrane. SL Postsynaptic cell membrane. HI Synaptic cell membrane. HP Postsynapse. KW KW-0628 GO GO:0045211; postsynaptic membrane // ID Postsynaptic density. AC SL-0297 DE The postsynaptic density is a network of proteins within and adjacent DE to the postsynaptic membrane, consisting of anchoring and scaffolding DE molecules, signaling enzymes and cytoskeletal components that DE spatially and functionally organize the neurotransmitter receptors at DE the synapse. In asymmetric synapses, the postsynaptic density is a DE thick electron dense network but in symmetric synapses this structure DE is thinner and not electron dense. SY Postsynaptic specialization; PSD. SL Postsynaptic density. HP Postsynapse. GO GO:0014069; postsynaptic density // ID Postsynaptic density membrane. AC SL-0520 DE The membrane component of the postsynaptic specialization. Part of the DE postsynaptic membrane attached to the postsynaptic density in which DE the population of neurotransmitter receptors involved in synaptic DE transmission are concentrated and organized. SL Postsynaptic density membrane. HP Postsynaptic cell membrane. HP Postsynaptic density. GO GO:0098839; postsynaptic density membrane // ID Postsynaptic early endosome. AC SL-0523 DE An early endosome of the postsynapse. It acts as the major sorting DE station on the endocytic pathway, targeting neurotransmitter receptors DE for degredation or recycling. SL Postsynaptic early endosome. HI Early endosome. HP Postsynaptic endosome. GO GO:0098842; postsynaptic early endosome // ID Postsynaptic early endosome membrane. AC SL-0534 DE The membrane surrounding a postsynaptic early endosome SL Postsynaptic early endosome membrane. HI Membrane. HP Postsynaptic early endosome. GO GO:0098896; postsynaptic early endosome membrane // ID Postsynaptic endocytic zone. AC SL-0528 DE Stably positioned sites of clathrin adjacent to the postsynaptic DE density (PSD). The physical link with the PSD ensures localized DE endocytosis and recycling by recapturing and maintaining a proximate DE pool of cycling postsynaptic receptors. SL Postsynaptic endocytic zone. HP Postsynapse. GO GO:0098843; postsynaptic endocytic zone // ID Postsynaptic endosome. AC SL-0522 DE An endosomal compartment that is part of the postsynapse. The DE endosomal pathway in postsynapses and dendrites is essential for DE membrane receptor trafficking and proper synaptic function and DE plasticity. Only early and recycling endosomes are typically present DE in the postsynapse. SY postsynaptic endosome. SL Postsynaptic endosome. HI Endosome. HP Postsynapse. GO GO:0098845; postsynaptic endosome // ID Postsynaptic recycling endosome. AC SL-0524 DE A recycling endosome of the postsynapse. It is involved in recycling DE of neurotransmitter receptors to the postsynaptic membrane and serves DE as intracellular reserve pools of neurotransmitter receptors. In some DE cases at least, this recycling is activated by postsynaptic signalling DE and so can play a role in long term potentiation. SL Postsynaptic recycling endosome. HI Recycling endosome. HI Postsynaptic endosome. HP Postsynapse. GO GO:0098837; postsynaptic recycling endosome // ID Postsynaptic recycling endosome membrane. AC SL-0533 DE The membrane surrounding a postsynaptic recycling endosome SL Postsynaptic recycling endosome membrane. HI Membrane. HP Postsynaptic recycling endosome. GO GO:0098944; postsynaptic recycling endosome membrane // ID Preautophagosomal structure. AC SL-0220 DE The pre-autophagosomal structure is the potential site of organization DE for autophagosome formation located near the vacuole. SY PAS; Phagophore assembly site; Pre-autophagosomal structure. SL Preautophagosomal structure. GO GO:0000407; phagophore assembly site // ID Preautophagosomal structure membrane. AC SL-0221 DE The membrane surrounding the pre-autophagosomal structure. SY PAS membrane; Pre-autophagosomal structure membrane. SL Preautophagosomal structure membrane. HI Membrane. HP Endomembrane system. HP Preautophagosomal structure. GO GO:0034045; phagophore assembly site membrane // ID Presynapse. AC SL-0516 DE In the synapse, the specialized axon's terminal end of the presynaptic DE cell that contains the specialized apparatus necessary to release DE neurotransmitters to the synaptic cleft. SY Axon terminal; Pre-synapse; Presynaptic bouton; Presynaptic region; SY Presynaptic terminal. SL Presynapse. HP Synapse. HP Axon. GO GO:0098793; presynapse // ID Presynaptic active zone. AC SL-0519 DE The active zone is the region that lies at the interface between the DE presynaptic terminal and the synaptic cleft and mediates DE neurotransmitter release. Consists of an electron dense protein DE network called the cytomatrix at the active zone (CAZ) that is tightly DE anchored to the presynaptic membrane, and precisely aligned with post- DE synaptic receptors. CAZ docks and fuses synaptic vesicles, recruits DE voltage-gated Ca(2+) channels to the presynaptic membrane to allow DE fast synchronous excitation/release coupling and mediates short- and DE long-term presynaptic plasticity. SL Presynaptic active zone. HP Presynapse. GO GO:0048786; presynaptic active zone // ID Presynaptic active zone membrane. AC SL-0527 DE The membrane portion of the presynaptic active zone that allows DE presynaptic vesicles to dock, fuse, and, ultimately, release DE neurotransmitter into the synaptic cleft. SL Presynaptic active zone membrane. HP Presynaptic cell membrane. HP Presynaptic active zone. GO GO:0048787; presynaptic active zone membrane // ID Presynaptic cell membrane. AC SL-0222 DE In a chemical synapse, the presynaptic membrane is the cell membrane DE of an axon terminal that faces the receiving cell. The postsynaptic DE membrane is separated from the presynaptic membrane by the synaptic DE cleft. SY Presynaptic membrane. SL Presynaptic cell membrane. HI Synaptic cell membrane. HP Presynapse. GO GO:0042734; presynaptic membrane // ID Presynaptic endocytic zone. AC SL-0529 DE Region of the presynaptic membrane and underlying cytoplasm that DE surrounds the active zone and where synaptic vesicles are endocytosed DE and recycled following release. SY Periactive zone; Peri-active zone. SL Presynaptic endocytic zone. HP Presynapse. GO GO:0098833; presynaptic endocytic zone // ID Presynaptic endosome. AC SL-0525 DE An endosome present in the presynapse that fuses with endocytic DE vesicles arising in the presynaptic endocytic zone. Presynaptic DE endosomes are involved on synaptic vesicle regeneration in GABAergic DE synapses at least, even if different modes of synaptic vesicles DE recycling exist depending on the type of synapse. SL Presynaptic endosome. HI Endosome. HP Presynapse. GO GO:0098830; presynaptic endosome // ID Prevacuolar compartment. AC SL-0223 DE The prevacuolar compartment is an endocytic multivesiculate DE compartment involved in Golgi-vacuole trafficking. SY PVC. SL Prevacuolar compartment. // ID Prevacuolar compartment lumen. AC SL-0343 DE The PVC compartment bounded by the membrane of the PVC. SY PVC lumen. SL Prevacuolar compartment lumen. HP Prevacuolar compartment. // ID Prevacuolar compartment membrane. AC SL-0224 DE The membrane surrounding the prevacuolar compartment. SY PVC membrane. SL Prevacuolar compartment membrane. HI Membrane. HP Endomembrane system. HP Prevacuolar compartment. // ID Primary cell wall. AC SL-0225 DE Trimary cell wall is the first-formed wall layer of still growing DE plant cells (at least potentially). This wall is part of the apoplast DE which itself is largely self-contiguous and contains everything that DE is located between the plasma membrane and the cuticle. Primary walls DE are composed predominantly of polysaccharides, smaller proportions of DE glycoproteins and, in some specialized cell types, various DE noncarbohydrate substances such as lignin, suberin, cutin, cutan or DE silica. It is strong but usually thin, flexible, and capable of both DE plastic and elastic extension. It governs the rate and direction of DE cell expansion, and thus the ultimate size and shape of the cell. SL Secreted, primary cell wall. HI Cell wall. GO GO:0009530; primary cell wall // ID Prolamellar body. AC SL-0226 DE The prolamellar body is a paracrystalline lattice found in the DE plastids of etiolated plants (etioplasts). Upon greening it gives rise DE to thylakoids. SY Etioplast prolamellar body. SL Plastid, etioplast, prolamellar body. HP Etioplast. GO GO:0009541; etioplast prolamellar body // ID Prospore. AC SL-0369 DE The prospore or immature spore is formed during sporulation by the DE engulfment of the post-meiotic nuclei by the prospore double membrane. DE These prospores are then maturated into spores with the synthesis of DE the spore wall. SY Prespore. SL Prospore. GO GO:0042764; ascospore-type prospore // ID Prospore membrane. AC SL-0368 DE The prospore membrane is a double membrane which forms at the spindle DE pole body outer plaque during the second meiotic division of the DE sporulation process. The prospore membrane grows larger and finally DE engulfs the post-meiotic nuclei to form immature spores called DE prospores. The de novo synthesis of the spore wall occurs in the DE prospore intermembrane space and leads to mature spores. SY Prespore membrane. SL Prospore membrane. HI Membrane. HP Prospore. GO GO:0005628; prospore membrane // ID Protein storage vacuole. AC SL-0228 DE The protein storage vacuole (PSV) is a specialized vacuole where DE storage proteins accumulate. These act as a source of amino acids for DE various SYnthetic activities. SY PSV; Storage vacuole. SL Protein storage vacuole. HI Vacuole. GO GO:0000326; protein storage vacuole // ID Protein storage vacuole lumen. AC SL-0344 DE The protein storage vacuolar compartment bounded by the membrane of DE the protein storage vacuole. SY Protein storage vacuolar lumen. SL Protein storage vacuole lumen. HI Vacuole lumen. HP Protein storage vacuole. GO GO:0034495; protein storage vacuole lumen // ID Protein storage vacuole membrane. AC SL-0227 DE The membrane surrounding a protein storage vacuole. SY Protein storage vacuolar membrane. SL Protein storage vacuole membrane. HI Vacuole membrane. HP Protein storage vacuole. GO GO:0032586; protein storage vacuole membrane // ID Protoplasm. AC SL-0229 DE The protoplasm is the viscid, translucent, polyphasic colloid with DE water as the continuous phase that makes up the essential material of DE all plant and animal cells. It is composed mainly of nucleic acids, DE proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and inorganic salts. The protoplasm DE surrounding the nucleus is known as the cytoplasm and that composing DE the nucleus is the nucleoplasm. SL Protoplasm. GO GO:0005622; intracellular anatomical structure AN Not used. // ID Pseudopodium. AC SL-0298 DE The pseudopodium is a thick knobby cell protrusion. Pseudopodia are DE produced by polymerization of extensive dendritic meshwork of actin DE filaments along broad sectors of the cell surface. These temporary DE irregular and dynamic protrusion or retractile processes of a cell, DE are associated with ameboid movement (crawling). Pseudopodium, or DE "false foot", mostly used for motile protozoans is comparable to the DE 'lamellipodium' in vertebrate cells. SY Pseudopod; Pseudopodia. SL Cell projection, pseudopodium. HI Cell projection. GO GO:0031143; pseudopodium // ID Pseudopodium membrane. AC SL-0299 DE The portion of the cell membrane surrounding a pseudopodium. SL Cell projection, pseudopodium membrane. HP Cell membrane. HP Pseudopodium. GO GO:0031260; pseudopodium membrane // ID Pseudopodium tip. AC SL-0471 DE The end of the pseudopodium distal to the body of the cell. SL Cell projection, pseudopodium tip. HP Pseudopodium. // ID Recycling endosome. AC SL-0232 DE The recycling endosome is a membrane network composed of narrow DE diameters tubules which concentrate in the vicinity of the microtubule DE organizing center. Recycling receptors after release of their ligands DE accumulate in those membranes which are devoid of fluid markers. DE Recycling endosomes may be an intermediate station for receptors DE before recycling back to the cell surface. SY Endosomal recycling compartment; ERC. SL Recycling endosome. HP Endosome. GO GO:0055037; recycling endosome AN Compartment specific marker: Rab11. // ID Recycling endosome lumen. AC SL-0345 DE The recycling endosomal compartment bounded by the membrane of the DE recycling endosome. SY Recycling endosomal lumen. SL Recycling endosome lumen. HI Endosome lumen. HP Recycling endosome. GO GO:0034777; recycling endosome lumen // ID Recycling endosome membrane. AC SL-0231 DE The membrane surrounding the recycling endosomes. SY Recycling endosomal membrane. SL Recycling endosome membrane. HI Endosome membrane. HP Recycling endosome. GO GO:0055038; recycling endosome membrane // ID Rhabdomere. AC SL-0551 DE A specialized organelle found in the photoreceptor cells of an DE ommatidium (the individual component of the arthropod compound eye) DE and the photoreceptor cells in the eye of cephalopods. Composed of DE thousands of tightly packed microvilli that expand the membrane DE surface area to accommodate millions of molecules of rhodopsin. DE Orthologous to the tightly packed membrane discs of the ciliary outer DE segment in vertebrate photoreceptor cells. SL Cell projection, rhabdomere. HI Cell projection. GO GO:0016028; rhabdomere AN The rhabdomere is a specialised structure of photoreceptor cells found AN in the compound eyes of arthropods like insects, crustaceans and AN millipedes, and cephalopods, like octopus and squid. This term should AN be used only for invertebrates such as arthropods and cephalopods. // ID Rhabdomere membrane. AC SL-0552 DE The portion of the plasma membrane surrounding the rhabdomere. SL Cell projection, rhabdomere membrane. HI Rhabdomere. HP Cell membrane. GO GO:0033583; rhabdomere membrane AN The rhabdomere is a specialised structure of photoreceptor cells found AN in the compound eyes of arthropods like insects, crustaceans and AN millipedes. This term should be used only for only for invertebrates AN such as arthropods and cephalopods . // ID Rhoptry. AC SL-0233 DE The rhoptry is an Apicomplexan parasite organelle. Apicomplexa are DE named for the unique set of morphologically distinct secretory DE organelles (refered to as the apical complex)- micronemes, rhoptries DE and dense granules - whose sequential secretion is required for the DE invasion of host cells. Rhoptries are twin, membrane-bound, pear- DE shaped organelles that secrete proteins through their elongated necks DE at the apical tip of the parasite. SY Rhoptries. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, secretory vesicle, rhoptry. HI Secretory vesicle. GO GO:0020008; rhoptry // ID Rhoptry lumen. AC SL-0346 DE The rhoptry compartment bounded by the membrane of a rhoptry. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, secretory vesicle, rhoptry lumen. HI Secretory vesicle lumen. HP Rhoptry. GO GO:0034591; rhoptry lumen // ID Rhoptry membrane. AC SL-0234 DE The membrane surrounding a rhoptry. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, secretory vesicle, rhoptry membrane. HI Secretory vesicle membrane. HP Rhoptry. GO GO:0033016; rhoptry membrane // ID Rough endoplasmic reticulum. AC SL-0235 DE The rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) is the portion of the ER which DE is covered with ribosomes. SY RER; Rough ER. SL Rough endoplasmic reticulum. HP Endoplasmic reticulum. GO GO:0005791; rough endoplasmic reticulum // ID Rough endoplasmic reticulum lumen. AC SL-0236 DE The rough endoplasmic reticulum lumen is the area enclosed by the DE rough endoplasmic reticulum membrane. SL Rough endoplasmic reticulum lumen. HI Endoplasmic reticulum lumen. HP Rough endoplasmic reticulum. GO GO:0048237; rough endoplasmic reticulum lumen // ID Rough endoplasmic reticulum membrane. AC SL-0237 DE The membrane surrounding the rough endoplasmic reticulum. SL Rough endoplasmic reticulum membrane. HI Endoplasmic reticulum membrane. HP Rough endoplasmic reticulum. GO GO:0030867; rough endoplasmic reticulum membrane // ID Ruffle. AC SL-0300 DE A ruffle is a cell protrusion at the leading edge of a crawling cell. DE Ruffles are supported by a microfilament meshwork. SL Cell projection, ruffle. HI Cell projection. GO GO:0001726; ruffle // ID Ruffle membrane. AC SL-0301 DE The portion of the cell membrane surrounding a ruffle. SL Cell projection, ruffle membrane. HP Cell membrane. HP Ruffle. GO GO:0032587; ruffle membrane // ID S-layer. AC SL-0262 DE The S-layer is a paracrystalline protein thin layer attached to the DE outermost portion of the cell wall. Found in some bacteria and common DE in archaea where it can constitute the only cell wall structure DE outside the plasma membrane. In Gram-negative bacteria, the S-layer is DE directly attached to the outer membrane. In Gram-positive bacteria, DE the S-layer is attached to the peptidoglycan layer. The S-layer may DE protect the cell from aggressions such as phagocytosis, harmful DE enzymes, etc. It also allows bacteria to adhere to host cells or other DE environmental surfaces and to maintain shape and envelope rigidity. SL Secreted, cell wall, S-layer. HP Cell wall. KW KW-0701 GO GO:0030115; S-layer // ID Sarcolemma. AC SL-0238 DE The sarcolemma is a specialized membrane which surrounds striated DE muscle fiber cells. It consists of a lipid bilayer typical of a plasma DE membrane and a thin outer coat of polysaccharide material, called DE glycocalyx, that contacts the basement membrane and allows the cell to DE anchor into the tissues that build and support muscle fibers. SY Myolemma. SL Cell membrane, sarcolemma. HI Cell membrane. GO GO:0042383; sarcolemma // ID Sarcomere. AC SL-0313 DE The sarcomere represents the basal contractile unit of striated DE muscles. A single myofibril is composed of these short structural DE units arranged end to end, which contract due to the relative sliding DE of thick (myosin) over thin (actin) filaments. The mammalian sarcomere DE is ~ 2 mm in length, and can shorten to ~ 70% of its original length DE during contraction. Structural features of the sarcomere include DE bundles of parallel thick and thin filaments assembled by two DE transverse structures, the Z lines and M lines. The Z lines and the M DE lines are connected by transverse filaments to the sarcolemma or to DE the neighboring myofibrils. Sarcomeres give to skeletal and cardiac DE muscles their striated appearance with I bands surrounding the Z DE lines, followed by A bands. The A bands contain a paler region called DE the H zone and in the middle the M line. SL Cytoplasm, myofibril, sarcomere. HP Myofibril. GO GO:0030017; sarcomere WW http://www.sarcomere.org/ // ID Sarcoplasm. AC SL-0311 DE The sarcoplasm is the cytoplasm of a muscle fiber or muscle cell or DE myofiber. SL Cytoplasm, sarcoplasm. HI Cytoplasm. GO GO:0016528; sarcoplasm // ID Sarcoplasmic reticulum. AC SL-0239 DE The sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) is a highly specialized form of the DE smooth endoplasmic reticulum which is dedicated to the regulation of DE intracellular calcium homeostasis. The SR can be subdivided in at DE least two well-characterized regions: the terminal cisternae, where DE the calcium ions are released, and the longitudinal tubules DE specialized in the uptake of the calcium ions. SL Sarcoplasmic reticulum. KW KW-0703 GO GO:0016529; sarcoplasmic reticulum AN Not ok: HI Endoplasmic reticulum. // ID Sarcoplasmic reticulum lumen. AC SL-0240 DE The lumen of the sarcoplasmic reticulum is the area enclosed by the DE sarcoplasmic reticulum membrane. SL Sarcoplasmic reticulum lumen. HP Sarcoplasmic reticulum. GO GO:0033018; sarcoplasmic reticulum lumen // ID Sarcoplasmic reticulum membrane. AC SL-0241 DE The membrane surrounding the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR). SL Sarcoplasmic reticulum membrane. HI Membrane. HP Endomembrane system. HP Sarcoplasmic reticulum. GO GO:0033017; sarcoplasmic reticulum membrane // ID Secondary cell wall. AC SL-0242 DE In some plants, and cell types after a maximum size or point in DE development has been reached, a secondary wall, often layered, is DE constructed below the primary wall. Unlike the primary wall, it losts DE plasticity and is made usually of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. SL Secreted, secondary cell wall. HI Cell wall. GO GO:0009531; secondary cell wall // ID Secreted. AC SL-0243 DE Protein located outside the cell membrane(s). SL Secreted. KW KW-0964 GO GO:0005576; extracellular region // ID Secretory vesicle. AC SL-0244 DE The secretory vesicle is a vesicle that mediates the vesicular DE transport of cargo - e.g. hormones or neurotransmitters - from an DE organelle to specific sites at the cell membrane, where it docks and DE fuses to release its content. It has been demonstrated that membrane- DE bound secretory vesicles dock and fuse at porosomes, which are DE specialized supramolecular structures at the cell membrane. SY Secretory granule. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, secretory vesicle. HI Cytoplasmic vesicle. GO GO:0030133; transport vesicle // ID Secretory vesicle lumen. AC SL-0347 DE The secretory vesicle compartment bounded by the membrane of the DE secretory vesicle. SY Secretory granule lumen. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, secretory vesicle lumen. HI Cytoplasmic vesicle lumen. HP Secretory vesicle. // ID Secretory vesicle membrane. AC SL-0245 DE The membrane surrounding secretory vesicles. SY Secretory granule membrane. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, secretory vesicle membrane. HI Cytoplasmic vesicle membrane. HP Secretory vesicle. GO GO:0030658; transport vesicle membrane // ID Septate junction. AC SL-0246 DE The septate junction (SJ) in invertebrates is an occluding complex DE located basolateral to the adherens junction which have regularly DE spaced septa bridging a circa 15-nm intercellular space. SJs form the DE paracellular barrier that regulates passage of solutes through the DE spaces between adjacent cells in an epithelium for proper nutrient DE absorption or secretion. SY Paired septate junction; Pleated septate junction; SJ. SL Cell junction, septate junction. HI Cell junction. GO GO:0005918; septate junction AN Add "Cell membrane" if the protein is clearly associated with the AN membrane. // IT Single-pass membrane protein. AC SL-9904 DE Protein spanning the membrane once. SY Singlepass; Single pass; Single-pass; Singlespan; Single span. SL Single-pass membrane protein. HI Membrane. // IT Single-pass type I membrane protein. AC SL-9905 DE Protein spanning the membrane once, with its N-terminus on the DE extracellular side of the membrane and removal of its signal sequence. SY Singlepass; Single pass; Single-pass; Singlespan; Single span. SL Single-pass type I membrane protein. HI Single-pass membrane protein. // IT Single-pass type II membrane protein. AC SL-9906 DE Protein spanning the membrane once, with its N-terminus on the DE cytoplasmic side of the membrane. The transmembrane domain is located DE close to the N-terminus and it functions as an anchor. SY Singlepass; Single pass; Single-pass; Singlespan; Single span. SL Single-pass type II membrane protein. HI Single-pass membrane protein. // IT Single-pass type III membrane protein. AC SL-9907 DE Protein spanning the membrane once, with its N-terminus on the DE extracellular side of the membrane and no signal sequence. SY Singlepass; Single pass; Single-pass; Singlespan; Single span. SL Single-pass type III membrane protein. HI Single-pass membrane protein. // IT Single-pass type IV membrane protein. AC SL-9908 DE Protein spanning the membrane once, with its N-terminus on the DE cytoplasmic side of the membrane. The transmembrane domain is located DE close to the C-terminus and it functions as an anchor. SY Singlepass; Single pass; Single-pass; Singlespan; Single span. SL Single-pass type IV membrane protein. HI Single-pass membrane protein. // ID Slime layer. AC SL-0247 DE The slime layer is an easily removed, diffuse, unorganized layer of DE extracellular material which surrounds the bacterial cell. It is DE usually composed of polysaccharides and it may serve to trap DE nutrients, to aid in cell motility, to bind cells together or to DE adhere to smooth surfaces. Slime layers are a more-diffuse glycocalyx DE than capsules. SL Secreted, slime layer. HP Secreted. GO GO:0030114; slime layer // ID Smooth endoplasmic reticulum. AC SL-0248 DE The smooth endoplasmic reticulum (SER) is the portion of the ER which DE is free of ribosomes. SY SER; Smooth ER. SL Smooth endoplasmic reticulum. HP Endoplasmic reticulum. GO GO:0005790; smooth endoplasmic reticulum // ID Smooth endoplasmic reticulum lumen. AC SL-0249 DE The smooth endoplasmic reticulum lumen is the area enclosed by the DE smooth endoplasmic reticulum membrane. SL Smooth endoplasmic reticulum lumen. HI Endoplasmic reticulum lumen. HP Smooth endoplasmic reticulum. GO GO:0048238; smooth endoplasmic reticulum lumen // ID Smooth endoplasmic reticulum membrane. AC SL-0250 DE The membrane surrounding the smooth endoplasmic reticulum. SL Smooth endoplasmic reticulum membrane. HI Endoplasmic reticulum membrane. HP Smooth endoplasmic reticulum. GO GO:0030868; smooth endoplasmic reticulum membrane // ID Spindle. AC SL-0251 DE The spindle is a specialized microtubule structure designed to attach DE and capture chromosomes in order to partition them evenly to each DE daughter cells. SY Meiotic spindle; Mitotic apparatus; Mitotic spindle. SL Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, spindle. HP Cytoskeleton. GO GO:0005819; spindle // ID Spindle pole. AC SL-0448 DE Either of the ends of a spindle, a specialized microtubule structure DE designed to attach and capture chromosomes in order to partition them DE evenly to each daughter cells. SL Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, spindle pole. HP Spindle. GO GO:0000922; spindle pole // ID Spindle pole body. AC SL-0252 DE The spindle pole body is the microtubule organizing center (MTOC) in DE fungi, functionally equivalent to the animal cell centrosome. The SPB DE is responsible for the nucleation and organisation of microtubules. DE This may include the spindle microtubules required for chromosome DE segregation in mitosis and meiosis as well as the cytoplasmic DE interphase microtubules. SY SPB; Spindle polar body. SL Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, microtubule organizing center, spindle pole body. HP Microtubule organizing center. GO GO:0005816; spindle pole body // ID Spine apparatus. AC SL-0530 DE Specialized form of endoplasmic reticulum found in a subpopulation of DE dendritic spines in central neurons consisting of two or more closely DE apposed lamellae with interspersed electron dense material. SL Endoplasmic reticulum, spine apparatus. HI Endoplasmic reticulum. HP Dendritic spine. HP Postsynapse. GO GO:0097444; spine apparatus // ID Spore. AC SL-0539 DE Spores are hardy unicellular units used by various bacteria, fungi, DE plants and protozoa to allow them to remain dormant during long DE periods of time and under often unfavorable conditions. SY Ascospore; Basidiospore; Chlamydospore; Megaspore; Microspore; SY Teliospore; Tetraspore; Zoospore. SL Spore. // ID Spore coat. AC SL-0366 DE Protein found in the spore coat. The spore coat is the thick layer DE found beneath the perispore of some eukaryotic spores and bacterial DE mature spores. It is made up of highly cross-linked keratin and layers DE of specific proteins. The coat is composed of several electron-dense DE and lamella-like layers, differing between species. SL Spore coat. HP Spore. // ID Spore core. AC SL-0253 DE Protein found in the spore core. The core also called spore matrix is DE the central part of the spore and contains normal cell structures, DE such as DNA, proteins and ribosomes, but is metabolically inactive. SL Spore core. HP Spore. // ID Spore cortex. AC SL-0364 DE Protein found in the spore cortex. The spore cortex is a loosely DE cross-linked peptidoglycan layer localized between the spore core and DE the outer membrane or cortex membrane of bacterial mature spores. The DE cortex maintains heat resistance and dormancy. SL Spore cortex. HP Spore. GO GO:0043595; endospore cortex // ID Spore membrane. AC SL-0363 DE Protein associated with the membrane that surrounds the center or core DE of a spore, often called spore inner membrane in bacterial spores. SY Spore inner membrane. SL Spore membrane. HI Membrane. HP Spore. // ID Spore outer membrane. AC SL-0365 DE Protein associated with the spore outer membrane. The outer membrane, DE also called the cortex membrane, is a membrane localized between the DE cortex and the inner layer of the coat of bacterial mature spores. SL Spore outer membrane. HI Membrane. HP Spore. GO GO:0043594; outer endospore membrane // ID Spore polar tube. AC SL-0436 DE The polar tube is a highly specialised structure unique to DE Microsporidia and required for host cell invasion. In the spore, the DE polar tube is connected at the anterior end, and then coils around the DE sporoplasm. Upon appropriate environmental stimulation, the polar tube DE rapidly discharges out of the spore, pierces a cell membrane and DE serves as a conduit for sporoplasm passage into the new host cell. SL Spore polar tube. HP Spore. GO GO:0044099; polar tube // ID Spore wall. AC SL-0254 DE Protein found in the spore wall. The spore wall is the main element of DE the spore's resistance to environmental stress. It is usually composed DE of several layers of different sugar polymers like mannans and glucans DE which are associated to glycoproteins. The composition, structure and DE number of layers are very different between bacteria, plants, DE protozoans or fungi. SL Spore wall. HP Spore. GO GO:0031160; spore wall // ID Stereocilium. AC SL-0302 DE The stereocilium is a finger-like projection forming the hair bundle DE on the apical surface of sensory hair cells in the cochlea. DE Stereocilia stiffness and function depend on the several hundreds of DE uniformly polarized and tightly cross-linked actin filaments. DE Stereocilia cytoskeleton shows continuous turnover with actin filament DE assembly occuring at the stereocilium tip and its disassembly at the DE base so that stereocilium length is maintained in a dynamic steady- DE state. This staircase-like bundle of stereocilia is responsible for DE mechanosensation and ultimately the perception of sound. SY Stereocilia. SL Cell projection, stereocilium. HI Cell projection. GO GO:0032420; stereocilium RX PubMed=17326148; DOI=10.1002/cm.20199; // ID Stereocilium membrane. AC SL-0303 DE The stereocilium membrane is the portion of the cell membrane DE surrounding a stereocilium. SY Stereocilia membrane. SL Cell projection, stereocilium membrane. HP Cell membrane. HP Stereocilium. GO GO:0060171; stereocilium membrane // ID Stress fiber. AC SL-0501 DE Stress fibers are contractile actomyosin bundles found in non-muscle DE cells, in eukaryotes, mostly in animals. They are composed of bundles DE of 10 to 30 actin filaments (microfilaments), crosslinked by alpha- DE actinin, and non-muscle myosin. They are often anchored to focal DE adhesions, that connect the extracellular matrix to the actin DE cytoskeleton. Stress fibers play an essential role in cell DE contractility, governing cell morphology, adhesion, and migration. In DE non-motile cells, stress fibers are usually thick and relatively DE stable. By contrast, highly motile cells typically contain fewer, DE thinner and more dynamic stress fibers. Stress fibers can be divided DE into at least 4 different categories : dorsal and ventral stress DE fibers, transverse arcs and the perinuclear actin cap. SL Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, stress fiber. HP Cytoskeleton. GO GO:0001725; stress fiber AN Mostly in animal, non-muscle cells. // ID Stress granule. AC SL-0496 DE Stress granules are dense non-membrane bound aggregations in the DE cytosol composed of proteins and RNAs that appear when the cell is DE under stress. The aggregates are mostly composed of stalled DE translation initiation complexes. They are 100-200 nm in size. Stress DE granules can also precipitate the formation of toxic protein DE aggregates such as those seen during the progression of certain types DE of neurological disease. SL Cytoplasm, Stress granule. HI Cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein granule. GO GO:0010494; cytoplasmic stress granule // IO Stromal side. AC SL-9917 DE Protein found mostly on the stromal side of the membrane. SL Stromal side. // ID Surface film. AC SL-0255 DE The film of pulmonary surfactants which cover the alveolar surface of DE the mammalian lung. These surfactants are composed of 90% DE phospholipids and 10% proteins. SL Secreted, extracellular space, surface film. HP Extracellular space. KW KW-0767 // ID Symbiosome. AC SL-0256 DE Symbiosis lead to the formation of a new compartment in the plant cell DE when bacteria enter the plant cell by endocytosis, the symbiosome. DE This compartment harbours the bacteroids surrounded by a peribacteroid DE membrane (PMB) originating from the plant plasma membrane. The space DE between this membrane and the bacteroid membrane is called the DE peribacteroid space. SL Symbiosome. GO GO:0043659; symbiosome // ID Symplast. AC SL-0257 DE The symplast is a highly ordered and connected space within plants DE formed by the cytoplasms of individual cells connected by DE plasmodesmata. The symplast is held in place by a rigid framework, the DE apoplast. SL Symplast. GO GO:0055044; symplast // ID Synapse. AC SL-0258 DE Synapses are the communicating cell-cell junctions that allow signals DE to pass from a nerve cell to a target cell. In a chemical synapse, the DE signal is carried by a neurotransmitter which diffuses across a narrow DE synaptic cleft and activates a receptor on the postsynaptic membrane DE of the target cell. The target may be a dendrite, cell body, neuronal DE axon, a specialized region of a muscle or a secretory cell. In an DE electrical synapse, a direct connection is made between the cytoplasms DE of two cells via gap junctions. SL Synapse. KW KW-0770 GO GO:0045202; synapse // ID Synaptic cell membrane. AC SL-0531 DE A specialized area of membrane on either the presynaptic or the DE postsynaptic side of a synapse, the junction between a nerve fiber of DE one neuron and another neuron or muscle fiber or glial cell. SL Synaptic cell membrane. HI Cell membrane. HP Synapse. GO GO:0097060; synaptic membrane // ID Synaptic cleft. AC SL-0517 DE The narrow space between the presynaptic and postsynaptic membranes DE into which neurotransmitters are released by synaptic vesicles through DE exocytosis and diffuse to activate receptors on post-synaptic DE membrane. SL Synaptic cleft. HP Extracellular space. HP Synapse. GO GO:0043083; synaptic cleft // ID Synaptic vesicle. AC SL-0259 DE The synaptic vesicles mediate the exocytosis of neurotransmitters and DE subsequent re-uptake by endocytosis of vesicular components. Re-uptake DE is a crucial element in the maintenance of synaptic transmission in DE the nervous system. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, secretory vesicle, synaptic vesicle. HI Secretory vesicle. HP Synapse. GO GO:0008021; synaptic vesicle // ID Synaptic vesicle lumen. AC SL-0348 DE The synaptic vesicle compartment bounded by the membrane of a synaptic DE vesicle. SY Synaptic vesicular lumen. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, secretory vesicle, synaptic vesicle lumen. HI Secretory vesicle lumen. HP Synaptic vesicle. GO GO:0034592; synaptic vesicle lumen // ID Synaptic vesicle membrane. AC SL-0260 DE The membrane surrounding a synaptic vesicle. SY Synaptic vesicular membrane. SL Cytoplasmic vesicle, secretory vesicle, synaptic vesicle membrane. HI Secretory vesicle membrane. HP Synaptic vesicle. GO GO:0030672; synaptic vesicle membrane // ID Synaptosome. AC SL-0261 DE Synaptosomes are the pinched-off nerve endings and their contents of DE vesicles and cytoplasm together with the attached subsynaptic area of DE the membrane of the postsynaptic cell. They are largely artificial DE structures produced by fractionation after selective centrifugation of DE nervous tissue homogenates. SL Synapse, synaptosome. HP Synapse. KW KW-0771 // ID T-tubule. AC SL-0505 DE T-tubules are invaginations of the sarcolemma penetrating into the DE myocyte interior, forming a highly branched and interconnected network DE that makes junctions with the sarcoplasmic reticulum. T-tubules are DE selectively enriched with specific ion channels and proteins crucial DE in the development of calcium transients necessary in excitation- DE contraction coupling, thereby facilitating a fast and synchronous DE contraction across the entire cell volume. T-tubules are unique to DE striated muscle cells, i.e. skeletal and cardiac muscle cells. SY Transverse-axial tubular system; Transverse tubule. SL Cell membrane, sarcolemma, T-tubule. HP Sarcolemma. GO GO:0030315; T-tubule // ID Target cell. AC SL-0487 DE A cell including the cell membrane and any external encapsulating of DE another cell. This term is used to describe a toxin located in the DE structures such as the cell wall and cell envelope that is the target. SL Target cell. GO GO:0044216; obsolete other organism cell // ID Target cell cytoplasm. AC SL-0486 DE The contents of a target cell within the plasma membrane and which, in DE eukaryotic cells, surrounds the host nucleus. This term is used to DE describe a toxin located in the cytoplasm of a target cell. SY Target cytoplasm. SL Target cell, target cell cytoplasm. HI Target cell. KW KW-1266 // ID Target cell membrane. AC SL-0451 DE The target cell membrane is the selectively permeable membrane which DE separates the target cell cytoplasm from its surroundings. This term DE is used to describe a toxin located to the cell membrane of a target DE cell. SY Target cytoplasmic membrane; Target plasmalemma; SY Target plasma membrane. SL Target cell membrane. HI Target membrane. KW KW-1052 // ID Target membrane. AC SL-0452 DE A target membrane is a lipid bilayer which surrounds target cell DE enclosed spaces and compartments. This selectively permeable structure DE is essential for effective separation of a target cell or target cell DE organelle from its surroundings. This term is used to describe a toxin DE located to a membrane of a target cell. SL Target cell, Membrane, target membrane. HI Membrane. HI Target cell. KW KW-1053 // ID Tegument. AC SL-0263 DE The tegument of schistosomes is an outer-surface covering blood- DE dwelling flatworms. This unique structure consists of a double DE phospholipid bilayer (also known as the heptalaminar outer-surface DE structure) that ovelay a syncytium of fused cells surrounding the DE entire worm. These outer-tegumental membranes form many surface pits DE that substantially increase the surface area of the schistosome. The DE underlying syncytial-matrix contains some mitochondria, many vesicular DE structures and an extensive cytoskeleton. A basal lamina separates the DE syncytium from a layer of muscle cells. Nuclei and ribosomes are DE located in cytons, which are located underneath the muscle layer and DE connected by microtubule-lined cytoplasmic connections. SL Tegument. // ID Tegument membrane. AC SL-0264 DE The membrane suroounding the tegument of schistosomes. SY Tegumental membrane. SL Tegument membrane. HI Membrane. HP Tegument. // ID Telomere. AC SL-0276 DE The telomere is a nucleoprotein structure comprising the terminal DE section of a eukaryotic chromosome. It has a specialized structure DE which is replicated by a special process, thereby counteracting the DE tendency of a chromosome to be shortened during each round of DE replication. SY Chromosome, telomeric region. SL Chromosome, telomere. HP Chromosome. KW KW-0779 GO GO:0000781; chromosome, telomeric region // ID Thylakoid. AC SL-0450 DE The thylakoid is a membranous cellular structure containing the DE photosynthetic pigments, reaction centers and electron-transport DE chain. In chloroplast, thylakoids stack up to form the grana or stay DE as single cisternae and interconnect the grana. Thylakoid, where DE photosynthesis occurs, are found in chloroplasts, cyanelles and in DE photosynthetic bacteria where they are the extensive invaginations of DE the plasma membrane. SL Thylakoid. KW KW-0793 GO GO:0009579; thylakoid // ID Tight junction. AC SL-0265 DE The tight junction (TJ) is a dynamic, multifunctional complex which, DE together with adherens junctions and desmosomes, maintains the DE integrity of the epithelial cell layer(s) that protects multicellular DE organisms. TJ is located at the apical-most portion of the DE intercellular junction. It separates the apical and basolateral DE compartments of epithelia (preventing the lateral diffusion of lipids DE and proteins between the apical and basolateral domains of plasma DE membrane) and plays a key role in limiting paracellular permeability DE to ions and solutes in a charge and size selective manner. TJs appear DE as multiple strands of fibrils forming a continuous circumferential DE seal around cells. SY TJ; Zonula occludens. SL Cell junction, tight junction. HI Cell junction. KW KW-0796 GO GO:0005923; bicellular tight junction AN Add "Cell membrane" if the protein is clearly associated with the AN membrane. WW http://celljunctions.med.nyu.edu/desmosomes/desframe.html // ID trans-Golgi network. AC SL-0266 DE The trans-Golgi network is a highly dynamic series of interconnected DE tubules and vesicles at the trans face of the Golgi stack. The trans- DE Golgi network functions in the processing and sorting of glycoproteins DE and glycolipids at the interface of the biosynthetic and endosomal DE pathways. The generation and maintenance of apical and basolateral DE membranes rely on sorting events that occur in the TGN. SY Golgi trans-face; TGN; trans-Golgi; trans-Golgi complex. SL Golgi apparatus, trans-Golgi network. HP Golgi apparatus. GO GO:0005802; trans-Golgi network AN The TGN is different from the trans-cisternae of the Golgi stack. AN Compartment specific marker: TGOLN2/TGN46. // ID trans-Golgi network membrane. AC SL-0267 DE The membrane surrounding the trans-Golgi network. SY Golgi trans-face membrane; TGN membrane; trans-Golgi complex membrane; SY trans-Golgi membrane. SL Golgi apparatus, trans-Golgi network membrane. HI Golgi apparatus membrane. HP trans-Golgi network. GO GO:0032588; trans-Golgi network membrane // ID Trichocyst. AC SL-0268 DE The trichocyst is an architecturally complex secretory granule having DE a highly constrained shape docked at specialized cortical sites in DE Paramecium and other ciliates. Each cell bears about 1'000 DE trichocysts, which are supposed to be defensive organelles against DE predators. Trichocyst consists of a spindle-shaped body bearing at its DE wide end a tip often compared to an inverted golf tee. An external DE stimulus can trigger massive and synchronous exocytosis. After DE exocytotic membrane fusion, contact with the H2O and calcium ions in DE the external medium leads to an extremely rapid (< 50 ms) and DE irreversible expansion of the trichocyst contents, to yield a second, DE needle-shaped form which remains insoluble. SL Trichocyst. GO GO:0055039; trichocyst RX PubMed=10865117; DOI=10.1016/s0300-9084(00)00201-7; // ID Uropodium. AC SL-0141 DE The uropodium is a rigid membrane projection with related cytoskeletal DE components at the trailing edge of a lymphocyte or other cell in the DE process of migrating or being activated, found on the opposite side of DE the cell from the lamellipodium or immunological synapse, DE respectively. SY Uropod; Uropodia. SL Cell projection, uropodium. HI Cell projection. GO GO:0001931; uropod // ID Vacuole. AC SL-0272 DE The vacuole is a generally large fluid-filled membrane-bound DE compartment in the cytoplasm. The precise form and function of DE vacuoles may vary between phyla. Plant vacuoles are among the best DE characterized. They differ in terms of their lumenal contents and DE processing enzymes, as well as on the basis of the type of integral DE proteins in their membranes (tonoplast intrinsic proteins, TIPs). DE Examples include the lytic vacuole, the storage vacuole and the DE lutoid. One important function of plant vacuoles is the maintenance of DE hydrostatic pressure. Other eukaryotes employ vacuoles for a variety DE of purposes, including storage (as in the yeast lysosome/vacuole), DE secretion and phagocytosis. In Protozoa, contractile vacuoles can be DE used to discharge water from the cytoplasm to the external DE environment. SL Vacuole. KW KW-0926 GO GO:0005773; vacuole // ID Vacuole lumen. AC SL-0270 DE The lumen of a vacuole is the area enclosed by the vacuolar membrane. SY Vacuolar lumen. SL Vacuole lumen. HP Vacuole. GO GO:0005775; vacuolar lumen // ID Vacuole membrane. AC SL-0271 DE The membrane surrounding a vacuole. SY Vacuolar membrane. SL Vacuole membrane. HI Membrane. HP Endomembrane system. HP Vacuole. GO GO:0005774; vacuolar membrane // ID Vesicle. AC SL-0498 DE A vesicle is a small structure consisting of fluid enclosed by a lipid DE bilayer. Vesicles form naturally during the processes of secretion DE (exocytosis), uptake (endocytosis) and transport of materials within DE the cytoplasm or between cells, and exist both within the cell and in DE the extracellular space. SL Vesicle. GO GO:0031982; vesicle RX PubMed=24769233; DOI=10.1016/j.jprot.2014.04.028; // ID Virion. AC SL-0274 DE The virion is the complete fully infectious extracellular virus DE particle. SL Virion. KW KW-0946 // ID Virion membrane. AC SL-0275 DE The membrane surrounding the virion. SL Virion membrane. HI Membrane. HP Virion. GO GO:0055036; virion membrane // ID Virion tegument. AC SL-0273 DE The viral tegument is a protein structure that resides between the DE capsid and envelope of herpesviruses and which appears amorphous in DE electron micrographs. SY Viral tegument. SL Virion tegument. HP Virion. KW KW-0920 GO GO:0019033; viral tegument // ID Z line. AC SL-0314 DE Z-disks are the lateral boundaries of a single sarcomere. In electron DE micrographs of cross striated muscle the Z line appears as a series of DE dark lines. They represent a key interface between the contractile DE apparatus and the cytoskeleton. The Z line (from the German DE "Zwischen") largely consists of alpha-actinin homodimers organized in DE an antiparallel fashion, thereby providing a backbone for the DE insertions of actin-based thin filaments, as well as titin and DE nebulin/nebulette. Z line of neighbouring sarcomeres are aligned in DE parallel and connected via the intermediate filament protein desmin. DE They maintain the actin filaments in a tetragonal lattice. SY Z-band; Z bodies; Z body; Z disc; Z-disc; Z disk; Z-disk; Z-line. SL Cytoplasm, myofibril, sarcomere, Z line. HP I band. GO GO:0030018; Z disc // ID Zona pellucida. AC SL-0540 DE Zona pellucida is a specialized extracellular matrix that surrounds DE the plasma membrane of mammalian oocytes. It is required for DE successful fertilization. Zona pellucida allows species-specific DE fertilization, prevents polyspermy, and enables acrosomal reaction for DE the successful adhesion and penetration of the sperm cell. SY Egg coat; Pellucid zone; Vitelline membrane. SL Zona pellucida. HP Extracellular matrix. KW KW-0272 GO GO:0035805; egg coat // ID Zymogen granule. AC SL-0545 DE A membrane-bounded, cytoplasmic secretory granule found in enzyme- DE secreting cells that allows the sorting, packaging and regulated DE apical secretion of digestive enzymes. Enzymes are packaged in these DE granules as zymogen or proenzyme, their inactive precursor form. SL Zymogen granule. HI Secretory vesicle. GO GO:0042588; zymogen granule RX PubMed=1191276; DOI=10.1016/0006-2944(75)90154-4; // ID Zymogen granule lumen. AC SL-0548 DE The zymogen granule compartment bounded by the membrane of the DE secretory vesicle. SL Zymogen granule lumen. HI Secretory vesicle lumen. HP Zymogen granule. // ID Zymogen granule membrane. AC SL-0549 DE The membrane surrounding zymogen granules. SL Zymogen granule membrane. HI Secretory vesicle membrane. HP Zymogen granule. GO GO:0042589; zymogen granule membrane // ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyrighted by the UniProt Consortium, see https://www.uniprot.org/terms Distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License -----------------------------------------------------------------------