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Thin cylindrical membrane-covered projections on the surface of an animal cell containing a core bundle of actin filaments. Present in especially large numbers on the absorptive surface of intestinal cells. Any constituent part of a cell, the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms. The portion of the plasma membrane surrounding a microvillus. An actin-based protrusion from the apical surface of auditory and vestibular hair cells. Bundles of stereocilia act as mechanosensory organelles. A prolongation or process extending from a cell, e.g. a flagellum or axon.

View Gene Ontology (GO) Term

GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: microvillus
Acc: GO:0005902
Aspect: Cellular Component
Desc: Thin cylindrical membrane-covered projections on the surface of an animal cell containing a core bundle of actin filaments. Present in especially large numbers on the absorptive surface of intestinal cells.
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
   This term: 81 [Search]
   Term or descendants: 109 [Search]


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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0005902 - microvillus (interactive image map)
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