The rigid or semi-rigid envelope lying outside the cell membrane of plant, fungal, most prokaryotic cells and some protozoan parasites, maintaining their shape and protecting them from osmotic lysis. In plants it is made of cellulose and, often, lignin; in fungi it is composed largely of polysaccharides; in bacteria it is composed of peptidoglycan; in protozoan parasites such as Giardia species, it's made of carbohydrates and proteins. (Gene Ontology, GO_0005618)
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1 proteins localized to the cell wall cellular component from the COMPARTMENTS Curated Protein Localization Evidence Scores dataset.
