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The structures that lie outside the inner membrane and surround the entire endospore; consists of a peptidoglycan-containing inner layer (the endospore cortex) surrounded by a multilayered proteinaceous coat. An exosporium may be present as an extreme outer layer. A structure that lies outside the plasma membrane and surrounds the entire cell. The specialized envelope lying outside the cell membrane of a spore. 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. The specialized cell wall of the ascospore (spore), which is the product of meiotic division. Examples of this component are found in Fungi.

View Gene Ontology (GO) Term

GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: spore wall
Acc: GO:0031160
Aspect: Cellular Component
Desc: The specialized envelope lying outside the cell membrane of a spore.
Synonyms:
  • spore coat
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
   This term: 5 [Search]
   Term or descendants: 29 [Search]


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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0031160 - spore wall (interactive image map)
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