AmiGO 2: Term Details for "focal adhesion" (GO:0005925)

Accession: GO:0005925
Name: focal adhesion
Ontology: cellular_component
Synonyms: focal contact, adhesion plaque, hemi-adherens junction
Alternate IDs: GO:0008357
Definition: Small region on the surface of a cell that anchors the cell to the extracellular matrix and that forms a point of termination of actin filaments. Source: ISBN:0124325653, ISBN:0815316208
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0005925 at QuickGO
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to focal adhesion.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to focal adhesion.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for focal adhesion.

subject	relation	object
focal adhesion	is_a	cell-substrate adherens junction (GO:0005924)

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