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The commitment of cells to specific cell fates and their capacity to differentiate into particular kinds of cells. Positional information is established through protein signals that emanate from a localized source within a cell (the initial one-cell zygote) or within a developmental field. Signaling at long or short range between cells that results in the commitment of a cell to a certain fate. Any process that mediates the transfer of information from one cell to another. Signaling between cells of equivalent developmental potential that results in these cells adopting different developmental fates. An example is the suppression by cells with a particular fate of the adoption of the same fate by surrounding cells.

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GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: lateral inhibition
Acc: GO:0046331
Aspect: Biological Process
Desc: Signaling between cells of equivalent developmental potential that results in these cells adopting different developmental fates. An example is the suppression by cells with a particular fate of the adoption of the same fate by surrounding cells.
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
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   Term or descendants: 11 [Search]


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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0046331 - lateral inhibition (interactive image map)
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