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The trouble stems from "plasma membrane", the membrane surrounding the cell, being classed as intracellular. If this relationship were removed, the junctions would then all be part of the plasma membrane.
The definition of intracellular is "The living contents of a cell; the matter contained within the plasma membrane, usually taken to exclude large vacuoles and masses of secretory or ingested material. In eukaryotes it includes the nucleus and cytoplasm." - so does this include or exclude the plasma membrane?
There are some other terms under plasma that don't fit under "intracellular" - eg. external side of plasma membrane. Removing "plasma membrane" from under "intracellular" would correct these errors. Any of the children of "plasma membrane" that truly are intracellular could be given it as an extra parent.
How does this sound?
Original comment by: girlwithglasses
All but one of the intercellular junctions mentioned in GO are children of "intracellular" and "plasma membrane" (the other is a child of "extracellular matrix"). Can we find a better place to put these terms?
Reported by: girlwithglasses
Original Ticket: "geneontology/ontology-requests/572":https://sourceforge.net/p/geneontology/ontology-requests/572