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The portion of the plasma membrane surrounding a lamellipodium. Any constituent part of a cell, the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms. A prolongation or process extending from a cell, e.g. a flagellum or axon. The area of a motile cell closest to the direction of movement. A thin sheetlike process extended by the leading edge of a crawling fibroblast; contains a dense meshwork of actin filaments.

View Gene Ontology (GO) Term

GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: lamellipodium
Acc: GO:0030027
Aspect: Cellular Component
Desc: A thin sheetlike process extended by the leading edge of a crawling fibroblast; contains a dense meshwork of actin filaments.
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
   This term: 111 [Search]
   Term or descendants: 114 [Search]


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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0030027 - lamellipodium (interactive image map)
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