antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity

id: GO:0001788
name: antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: Cytolysis of target cells by natural killer cells, eosinophils, neutrophils, monocytes, or macrophages following engagement of antibodies bound to the target cells by Fc receptors on the effector cells.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0001794type IIa hypersensitivity
GO:0001909leukocyte mediated cytotoxicity
GO:0006917induction of apoptosis