stress fiber

id: GO:0001725
name: stress fiber
namespace: cellular_component
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: A contractile actin filament bundle that consists of short actin filaments with alternating polarity, cross-linked by alpha-actinin and possibly other actin bundling proteins, and with myosin present in a periodic distribution along the fiber.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0032432actin filament bundle
GO:0042641actomyosin