cell septum

id: GO:0030428
name: cell septum
namespace: cellular_component
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: A structure composed of peptidoglycan and often chitin in addition to other materials. It usually forms perpendicular to the long axis of a cell or hypha and grows centripetally from the cell wall to the center of the cell and often functions in the compartmentalization of a cell into two daughter cells.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0000933adventitious septum
GO:0000934porous cell septum
GO:0000935barrier septum
GO:0000936primary cell septum
GO:0051077secondary cell septum

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0044464cell part