| id | GO:0005488 Detailed information
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| name | binding
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| namespace | molecular_function
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| def | "The selective, non-covalent, often stoichiometric, interaction of a molecule with one or more specific sites on another molecule." [GOC:ceb, GOC:mah, ISBN:0198506732 "Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology"]
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| comment | For ligands that bind to signal transducing receptors, consider the molecular function term 'receptor binding ; GO:0005102' and its children.
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| subset | goslim_pir
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| subset | goslim_plant
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| subset | gosubset_prok
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| synonym | "ligand" NARROW []
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| xref | Wikipedia:Binding_(molecular)
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| is_a | GO:0003674 ! molecular_function
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