AmiGO 2: Term Details for "engulfment of apoptotic cell" (GO:0043652)

Accession: GO:0043652
Name: engulfment of apoptotic cell
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: engulfment of apoptotic cell corpse, engulfment of cell corpse
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The removal of the apoptotic cell by phagocytosis, by a neighboring cell or by a phagocyte. Source: PMID:15536015, GOC:rk
Comment: This term should be used to annotate gene products from the engulfing cell that facilitate phagocytosis of apoptotic cells. It should not be mistaken with GO:0070782 'phosphatidylserine exposure on apoptotic cell surface', a process occurring in apoptotic cells that acts as a signal for engulfing cells. If gene products involved in such instances of phosphatidylserine exposure are shown to have a positive effect on engulfment, they may be annotated to GO:1901076 'positive regulation of engulfment of apoptotic cell'.
History: See term history for GO:0043652 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to engulfment of apoptotic cell (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to engulfment of apoptotic cell (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for engulfment of apoptotic cell (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
engulfment of apoptotic cell	is_a	phagocytosis, engulfment (GO:0006911)
engulfment of apoptotic cell	BFO:0000050	apoptotic cell clearance (GO:0043277)

subject	relation	object
negative regulation of engulfment of apoptotic cell (GO:1901075)	RO:0002212	engulfment of apoptotic cell
positive regulation of engulfment of apoptotic cell (GO:1901076)	RO:0002213	engulfment of apoptotic cell
regulation of engulfment of apoptotic cell (GO:1901074)	RO:0002211	engulfment of apoptotic cell

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