Term Details for "hormone binding" (GO:0042562) (original) (raw)

Accession

GO:0042562

Name

hormone binding

Ontology

molecular_function

Synonyms

None

Alternate IDs

None

Definition

Binding to an hormone, a naturally occurring substance secreted by specialized cells that affect the metabolism or behavior of cells possessing functional receptors for the hormone. Hormones may be produced by the same, or different, cell as express the receptor.Source: GOC:jl

Comment

None

History

See term history for GO:0042562 at QuickGO

Chem. react.

None

Subset

goslim_chembl

goslim_pir

Link to all genes and gene products annotated to hormone binding (excluding "regulates").

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