GO cellular component ontology term - GO:0000932 - P-body
Term summary
- ID
- GO:0000932
- Name
- P-body
- Ontology or CV name
- GO cellular component
- Definition
- A focus in the cytoplasm where mRNAs may become inactivated by decapping or some other mechanism. Protein and RNA localized to these foci are involved in mRNA degradation, nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD), translational repression, and RNA-mediated gene silencing.
