Term Details for "T cell differentiation" (GO:0030217) (original) (raw)

Accession

GO:0030217

Name

T cell differentiation

Ontology

biological_process

Synonyms

T lymphocyte differentiation, T-cell differentiation, T-lymphocyte differentiation, T cell development

Alternate IDs

GO:0042112, GO:0046652

Definition

The process in which a precursor cell type acquires characteristics of a more mature T-cell. A T cell is a type of lymphocyte whose definin characteristic is the expression of a T cell receptor complex.Source: GO_REF:0000022,GOC:mah,GOC:jid

Comment

Note that the term 'thymocyte differentiation' was merged into this term because thymocytes are T cells, and thus the term was essentially redundant. 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:0030217 at QuickGO

Chem. react.

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Subset

None

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