Planteome: Term Details for "cyst wall" (GO:0097570)

Accession: GO:0097570
Name: cyst wall
Ontology: cellular_component
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The specialized envelope lying outside the cell membrane of a cyst. A cyst is a resting or dormant stage of a microorganism, usually a bacterium or a protist or rarely an invertebrate animal, that helps the organism to survive in unfavorable environmental conditions. In protists such as protozoan parasites alternating cystic- and non-cystic stages, the cyst wall is usually composed of carbohydrates and proteins. Source: GOC:giardia, PMID:15134259, PMID:2026212, Wikipedia:Microbial_cyst
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0097570 at QuickGO
Subset: None
Related: Link to all annotated objects annotated to cyst wall.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to cyst wall.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for cyst wall.
Feedback: Contact the Planteome feedback if you find mistakes or have concerns about the data you find here.
Comments, changes to terms, or requests for new ontology terms can be made at GO issue tracker on GitHub.

subject	relation	object
cyst wall	is_a	cell wall (GO:0005618)

This term has no children.

cyst wall