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Any constituent part of the cytoskeleton, a cellular scaffolding or skeleton that maintains cell shape, enables some cell motion (using structures such as flagella and cilia), and plays important roles in both intra-cellular transport (e.g. the movement of vesicles and organelles) and cellular division. Includes constituent parts of intermediate filaments, microfilaments, microtubules, and the microtrabecular lattice. Any macromolecular complex composed of two or more polypeptide subunits, which may or may not be identical. Protein complexes may have other associated non-protein prosthetic groups, such as nucleotides, metal ions or other small molecules. Protruding complex at the anterior end of some life cycle stages of all apicomplexan parasites, involved in both the attachment and penetration of the host cell by the parasite. Singlet microtubules that lie underneath the inner membrane complex and emanate from the basal ring of the conoid. The part of the cytoskeleton (the internal framework of a cell) composed of microtubules and associated proteins. Any of the long, generally straight, hollow tubes of internal diameter 12-15 nm and external diameter 24 nm found in a wide variety of eukaryotic cells; each consists (usually) of 13 protofilaments of polymeric tubulin, staggered in such a manner that the tubulin monomers are arranged in a helical pattern on the microtubular surface, and with the alpha/beta axes of the tubulin subunits parallel to the long axis of the tubule; exist in equilibrium with pool of tubulin monomers and can be rapidly assembled or disassembled in response to physiological stimuli; concerned with force generation, e.g. in the spindle. Any constituent part of a cell, the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms. The region of a polarized cell that forms a tip or is distal to a base. For example, in a polarized epithelial cell, the apical region has an exposed surface and lies opposite to the basal lamina that separates the epithelium from other tissue.

View Gene Ontology (GO) Term

GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: subpellicular microtubule
Acc: GO:0020025
Aspect: Cellular Component
Desc: Singlet microtubules that lie underneath the inner membrane complex and emanate from the basal ring of the conoid.
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0020025 - subpellicular microtubule (interactive image map)
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