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GO:0016049 cell growth

The process by which a cell irreversibly increases in size over time by accretion and biosynthetic production of matter similar to that already present.

Term Information

ID GO:0016049
Name cell growth
Ontology Biological Process
Definition The process by which a cell irreversibly increases in size over time by accretion and biosynthetic production of matter similar to that already present.
Comment

GO Slims

This term is present in the following GO Consortium-maintained GO slims:
GO slim nameCount of all terms
goslim_generic127
goslim_pir470
goslim_plant102

Synonyms

Type Synonym
related cell expansion
exact cellular growth
exact growth of cell
related metabolic process resulting in cell growth
related metabolism resulting in cell growth

Cross-references associated with this term:

Database ID
INTERPRO IPR003911
INTERPRO IPR003939
INTERPRO IPR015352
INTERPRO IPR003941
INTERPRO IPR003932
INTERPRO IPR003942
INTERPRO IPR003934
INTERPRO IPR003940

This term can be used instead of these obsolete terms:

GO:0001557 metabolic process resulting in cell growth (replaced_by GO:0016049)
GO:0009936 expansin (replaced_by GO:0016049)

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GO:0008150 biological_process
GO:0009987 cellular process
GO:0040007 growth
GO:0065007 biological regulation
GO:0065008 regulation of biological quality
GO:0090066 regulation of anatomical structure size
GO:0032535 regulation of cellular component size
GO:0008361 regulation of cell size
GO:0016049 cell growth

Relationship key

Code Relationship
part of
is a
regulates
+ve regulates
-ve regulates

Child Terms

All direct descendants (child terms) available for this GO term:
I GO:0048588 developmental cell growth
I GO:0048591 non-developmental cell growth
I GO:0051210 isotropic cell growth
I GO:0051211 anisotropic cell growth
I GO:0007124 pseudohyphal growth
P GO:0016475 detection of nuclear:cytoplasmic ratio
I GO:0009825 multidimensional cell growth
PR GO:0030307 positive regulation of cell growth
NR GO:0030308 negative regulation of cell growth
I GO:0009826 unidimensional cell growth
R GO:0001558 regulation of cell growth

Relationship key

CodeRelationship
Ppart of
Iis a

Protein Annotation

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ID
Qualifier colocalizes_with contributes_to NOT NOT|colocalizes_with NOT|contributes_to
GO Term
Reference
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