AmiGO 2: Term Details for "plasma cell differentiation" (GO:0002317)

Accession: GO:0002317
Name: plasma cell differentiation
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: plasma cell development
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The process in which a B cell acquires the specialized features of a plasma cell. A plasma cell is a lymphocyte which develops from a B cell and produces high amounts of antibody. Source: GOC:jal
Comment: Note that immunologists typically use the word 'development' to refer to cells of B or T cell lineages undergoing the process that GO describes as 'cell differentiation'.
History: See term history for GO:0002317 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to plasma cell differentiation (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to plasma cell differentiation (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for plasma cell differentiation (excluding "regulates").

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subject	relation	object
plasma cell differentiation	is_a	mature B cell differentiation involved in immune response (GO:0002313)
plasma cell differentiation	RO:0002315	plasma cell (CL:0000786)

subject	relation	object
positive regulation of plasma cell differentiation (GO:1900100)	RO:0002213	plasma cell differentiation
Peyer's patch germinal center (UBERON:0004697)	BFO:0000067	plasma cell differentiation
regulation of plasma cell differentiation (GO:1900098)	RO:0002211	plasma cell differentiation
negative regulation of plasma cell differentiation (GO:1900099)	RO:0002212	plasma cell differentiation

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