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A plant cell wall that is no longer able to expand and so does not permit growth. Secondary cell walls contain less pectin that primary cell walls. The secondary cell is mostly composed of cellulose and is strengthened with lignin. A structure that lies outside the plasma membrane and surrounds the entire cell. A more or less rigid stucture lying outside the cell membrane of a cell and composed of cellulose and pectin and other organic and inorganic substances. The rigid or semi-rigid envelope lying outside the cell membrane of plant, fungal, and most prokaryotic cells, maintaining their shape and protecting them from osmotic lysis. In plants it is made of cellulose and, often, lignin; in fungi it is composed largely of polysaccharides; in bacteria it is composed of peptidoglycan. A plant cell wall that is still able to expand, permitting cell growth. Primary cell walls contain more pectin than secondary walls and no lignin is present.

View Gene Ontology (GO) Term

GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: plant-type cell wall
Acc: GO:0009505
Aspect: Cellular Component
Desc: A more or less rigid stucture lying outside the cell membrane of a cell and composed of cellulose and pectin and other organic and inorganic substances.
Synonyms:
  • cellulose and pectin-containing cell wall
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
   This term: 261 [Search]
   Term or descendants: 263 [Search]


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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0009505 - plant-type cell wall (interactive image map)
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