AmiGO 2: Term Details for "B cell costimulation" (GO:0031296)

Accession: GO:0031296
Name: B cell costimulation
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: B cell co-stimulation, B lymphocyte co-stimulation, B lymphocyte costimulation, B-cell co-stimulation, B-cell costimulation, B-lymphocyte co-stimulation, B-lymphocyte costimulation
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The process of providing, via surface-bound receptor-ligand pairs, a second, antigen-independent, signal in addition to that provided by the B cell receptor to augment B cell activation. Source: ISBN:0781735149
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0031296 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to B cell costimulation (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to B cell costimulation (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for B cell costimulation (excluding "regulates").

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subject	relation	object
B cell costimulation	is_a	positive regulation of B cell activation (GO:0050871)
B cell costimulation	RO:0004009	B cell (CL:0000236)
B cell costimulation	is_a	lymphocyte costimulation (GO:0031294)

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