| id | GO:0005792 Detailed information
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| name | microsome
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| namespace | cellular_component
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| def | "Any of the small, heterogeneous, artifactual, vesicular particles, 50-150 nm in diameter, that are formed when some eukaryotic cells are homogenized and that sediment on centrifugation at 100000 g." [ISBN:0198506732 "Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology"]
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| comment | Note that this term refers to disrupted cells, and does not necessarily correspond to any specific structure(s) in an intact cell.
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| synonym | "microsomal membrane" RELATED []
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| xref | Wikipedia:Microsome
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| is_a | GO:0042598 ! vesicular fraction
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