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===Question for group===  
===Question for group===  
In this obsoletion: GO:0006118 ; name: electron transport, I put 'consider' for oxidoreductase activity ; GO:0016491 and respiratory electron transport chain ; GO:0022904.  
*In this obsoletion: GO:0006118 ; name: electron transport, I put 'consider' for oxidoreductase activity ; GO:0016491 and respiratory electron transport chain ; GO:0022904.  
However there were lots of old obsolete terms that had consider GO:0006118 and I have changed them to consider GO:0022900 ; electron transport chain. Which is correct?
However there were lots of old obsolete terms that had consider GO:0006118 and I have changed them to consider GO:0022900 ; electron transport chain. Which is correct?
*Can we have some examples of the kind of wrong annotations to this term so I can make it clear in the annotation email why it needs to go?

Revision as of 11:51, 23 January 2008

Beginning

  • Jen is contacting Jim Hu to try to arrange a skype call to clear up some relationship problems under electron transport. 12/12/07
  • Meeting will be on Tuesday Dec 18, 9 AM Central Time.

Discussion Points

  • GO: 0006118 electron transport

and children

  • GO:0006133 : 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate oxidation
  • GO:0019646 : aerobic electron transport
  • GO:0019645 : anaerobic electron transport
  • GO:0000044 : ascorbate stabilization
  • GO:0042773 : ATP synthesis coupled electron transport
  • GO:0010478 : chlororespiration
  • GO:0006127 : glycerophosphate shuttle
  • GO:0043490 : malate-aspartate shuttle
  • GO:0006123 : mitochondrial electron transport, cytochrome c to oxygen (ok?)
  • GO:0006120 : mitochondrial electron transport, NADH to ubiquinone (ok?)
  • GO:0006121 : mitochondrial electron transport, succinate to ubiquinone (ok?)
  • GO:0006122 : mitochondrial electron transport, ubiquinol to cytochrome c (ok?)
  • GO:0006138 : NADH-O2 electron transport(ok?)
  • GO:0009767 : photosynthetic electron transport (ok?)
  • GO:0030965 : plasma membrane electron transport, NADH to quinone
  • GO:0009766 : primary charge separation
  • GO:0006136 : succinate-O2 electron transport
  • GO:0006125 : thioredoxin pathway
  • GO:0006137 : ubiquinone-8-O2 electron transport(ok?)


while we're at it:

  • NADH dehydrogenase complex (plastoquinone) (sensu Cyanobacteria)
  • NADH dehydrogenase complex (quinone) (sensu Bacteria)
  • NADH dehydrogenase complex (ubiquinone) (sensu Bacteria)

Emails

Hi Harold,

Do you know if all cytochrome P450 proteins are involved in electron transport?

I wonder if those mappings are always correct: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/IEntry?ac=IPR001128

Thanks Pascale


In I nutshell, and based on our def, yes.

Cytochome P450s are a large group of monooxygenase enzymes that metabolize of toxic hydrocarbons. They use NADPH coenzyme. Oxygen is a substrate. Some are enzymes are located in the endoplasmic reticulum as well as in the the mitochondrial membrane. So the ones in the mitochondria might be considered to be involved in THE electron transport if you are referring to the one that makes ATP. So, unless the definition of electron transport is really broad, I wonder if it would not be fair to classify all of them as being invovled in that process. SO, notice that our def is very broad: :*GO:0006118: **The transport of electrons from an electron donor to an electron acceptor.

  • It has a child,

GO term: *NADH-O2 electron transport* GO id: *GO:0006138*


SO I would say any CYP450 is involved in GO:0006138.


Harold


But, remember how we've have been trying to clean that up?

see http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1226172&group_id=36855&atid=440764 there was also this really fun item: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1332197&group_id=36855&atid=440764 but that was rather for function.

The problem is that this used to cover all electron transfer reactions, including all oxidoreductases. I just wonder if that's the case for some cytochrome P450s. Also, electron transport is a child of 'generation of precursor metabolites and energy'. It's possible that many children of 'electron transport' dont belong there. If that parent is correct, then 'electron transport' as you describe it above should not be a child. Also, GO:6120 to 6023 should be children of 'ATP synthesis coupled electron transport'??

Seems like some work is needed here... Should I open a SF item?

Thanks for your input,

Pascale


Yes, most definitely, tt seems obvious that the standing definition of "electron transport" is too broad. The Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry (aka, the bible), has this for an entry

Electron transport: 1. respiratory electron transport: the process by which pairs of electrons derived from intermediates of the tricarboxcylic acid cycle and other substraes flows down the respiratory chain to dioxygen, the ultimate electron acceptor in respiration. 2. photosynthetic elecron transport: the process by which pairs of electrons are trasported from water to NADP+ in the light phase of photosynthesis during noncyclic photophosphorylation.

Also, I still object to the actual term "electron transport", since it is not has if the same electron is passed down the chain. However, the term is historical in context, so we need to keep the convention.

So, some CYP450's could be annotated using def. 1; not all

It is clear that electron transport uses oxidation/reduction at each of it's steps. The way ET is defined in the GO now is almost meaningless

A definite SF item

hjd


Hi Jen and Pascale,

Is this really transport? According to Harold it's not. The electrons don't really get transported anywhere. People just call it that.

David


Hi David,

Transport for me is transmembrane transport, which this isn't. But this also happens in membranes, and I know a fair bit about both, so I'd be happy to take the ball, quietly rename it, and then run with it.

Jen

First Meeting Jan 2008

Participants: Debby Siegele, Jim Hu, Jennifer Deegan, David Hill, Michelle Gwinn-Giglio, Pascale Gaudet.

In our fist meeting we figured out that there are quite a lot of changes needed in this area of the ontology and that we should start by properly defining the top term 'electron transport'. We were also not sure whether photosynthetic eletron transport was a type of respiratory electron transport so we went away to figure this out for the next meeting.

16th Jan 2008

Participants: Jennifer Deegan, Pascale Gaudet, Michelle Gwinn-Gigio, Jim Hu, Debby Siegele.

Top Terms

We examined the very top terms in great detail.

GO:0006118
name: electron transport
Def: The transport of electrons from an electron 
donor to an electron acceptor.

was redefined to:

id: GO:0006118
name: respiratory electron transport chain
namespace: biological_process
def: "A process whereby a series of electron carriers operate together 
to transfer electrons from donors such as NADH and FADH2 to any of several
different terminal electron acceptors to generate a transmembrane 
electrochemical gradient." [GOC:mtg_electron_transport, http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/]
subset: goslim_candida
subset: goslim_generic
subset: goslim_goa
subset: goslim_pir
subset: goslim_plant
subset: goslim_yeast
subset: gosubset_prok
synonym: "6-phosphofructokinase reduction" RELATED []
synonym: "dihydrobiopterin reduction" RELATED []
synonym: "dihydrolipoamide reduction" RELATED []
synonym: "dihydrolipoylprotein reduction" RELATED []
synonym: "dihydropteridine reduction" RELATED []
synonym: "electron transfer" EXACT []
synonym: "other pathways of electron transport" RELATED []
synonym: "oxidized glutathione reduction" RELATED []
synonym: "protein-disulfide reduction" RELATED []
is_a: GO:0022900 ! electron transport chain

though via email right after the meeting someone pointed out that we should have obsoleted.

Action item: Jen to obsolete GO:0006118 ; electron transport and make the above term as a new term.

We made a new grouping term as below:

[Term]
id: GO:0022900
name: electron transport chain
namespace: biological_process
def: "A process whereby a series of electron carriers operate together
to transfer electrons from donors to any of several different terminal
electron acceptors to generate a transmembrane electrochemical gradient." [GOC:mtg_electron_transport]
is_a: GO:0006091 ! generation of precursor metabolites and energy

There was some discussion of whether photosynthetic electron transport chain was a type of respiratory electron transport chain:

[i]respiratory electron transport chain
---[i]photosynthetic electron transport chain

but in the end we decided to make these to terms siblings under a new grouping term (above) which is GO:0022900 ; electron transport chain:

[i]electron transport chain
---[i]respiratory electron transport chain
---[i]photosynthetic electron transport chain

The three terms were carefully redefined.

Component Ontology

During our edits we also discovered a term in the component ontology that should be obsoleted:

GO:0009502
photosynthetic electron transport chain
def: A series of membrane-linked oxidation-reduction reactions 
in which electrons are transferred from an initial electron donor 
through a series of intermediates to a final electron acceptor (usually oxygen).

Action item: Jen to obsolete this term.

Branch File

The edits were made in a branch file that was checked out at about 2.30 pm GMT on 16th Jan 2008 and the file was committed to go/scratch as electron_transport.obo

The number range being used is 0022900 - 0023000.


Action Items:

  • obsolete: GO:0009502 ; photosynthetic electron transport chain : obsoleted in branch, but mail not yet sent.
  • obsolete: GO:0006118 ; name: electron transport : obsoleted in branch, but mail not yet sent.

Question for group

  • In this obsoletion: GO:0006118 ; name: electron transport, I put 'consider' for oxidoreductase activity ; GO:0016491 and respiratory electron transport chain ; GO:0022904.

However there were lots of old obsolete terms that had consider GO:0006118 and I have changed them to consider GO:0022900 ; electron transport chain. Which is correct?

  • Can we have some examples of the kind of wrong annotations to this term so I can make it clear in the annotation email why it needs to go?