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A slime layer is an easily removed, diffuse, unorganized layer of extracellular material that surrounds a cell. Specifically this consists mostly of exopolysaccharides, glycoproteins, and glycolipids. A structure that lies outside the plasma membrane and surrounds the entire cell. A protective structure surrounding some fungi and bacteria, attached externally to the cell wall and composed primarily of polysaccharides. Capsules are highly organized structures that adhere strongly to cells and can not be easily removed. Capsules play important roles in pathogenicity, preventing phagocytosis by other cells, adherance, and resistance to dessication. A viscous, carbohydrate rich layer at the outermost periphery of a cell. Any constituent part of a cell, the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms.

View Gene Ontology (GO) Term

GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: glycocalyx
Acc: GO:0030112
Aspect: Cellular Component
Desc: A viscous, carbohydrate rich layer at the outermost periphery of a cell.
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
   This term: 2 [Search]
   Term or descendants: 2 [Search]


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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0030112 - glycocalyx (interactive image map)
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