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Category: Component
Voltage-gated calcium channel that plays a central role in sperm cell hyperactivation. Controls calcium entry to mediate the hyperactivated motility, a step needed for sperm motil…
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In Dicty, a lot of research looks at cell motility or cell migration. In general, cell motility is used for random movement, while migration is typically used for directed movement, in a chemotactic g…
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This is part two of request 1965473.
I paper (PMID: 18388319) the authors directly measure the traction forces at the posterior ends and in retracting pseudopodia of migrating cells and find that myo…
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I'd like to suggest a new term for regulating flagellar speed. The YcgR protein in E.coli binds c-di-GMP and slows down motor rotation, see PMID 20371342 (a minireview) 20303158 and 20346719. Could p…
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From Toby Gibson, EMBL Heidelberg:
"These organelles [flagellum/cilium] are homologous and the split into flagellum/cilium is arbitrary. Cells which have few but long cilia have them designated as fl…
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[Term]
id: GO:0005929
name: cilium
namespace: cellular_component
def: "A specialized eukaryotic organelle that consists of a filiform extrusion of the cell surface. Each cilium is bounded by an extrus…
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There seems to be a true path violation with the
placement of the term mesoderm migration:
mesoderm migration[7509]
cell migration[16477]
cell motility[6928]
cell growth and/or maintenance[8151]
bi…
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Suggested term: gastric emptying
Suggested parent: gastric motility (Ontology request item #2989864)
Suggested definition: "The process whereby the liquid and liquid-suspended solid contents of the …
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Looking at the definitions, I think 'taxis' and all its
children should be moved under "behavior"
-Taxis (GO:42330): The directed movement of a cell or
organism in response to an external stimulus.
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Request that a new term be added to GO. The term is transverse_flagellum. It should be added with an is_a relationship to motile_cilium like so, transverse_flagellum is_a motile_cilium. A transverse f…