MENGO Deconstruction

Working group members:

• Biswarup Mukhopadhyay (Lead)
• Adam Book
• Garret Suen

Trudy 2/22/11(excerpts from 1st MENGO workshop)

1. General ideas/terms proposed include:

All catabolic-related terms will have corresponding biosynthesis-related terms

Bolded italicised terms are currently missing in the Gene Ontology

GO:0016052 carbohydrate metabolic process
    GO:0005976 polysaccharide metabolic process
        GO:0000272 polysaccharide catabolic process
             GO:0005983 starch catabolic process
             GO:0030245 cellulose catabolic process
             hemicellulose catabolic process
                       GO:0045493 xylan catabolic process
                       GO:0046355 mannan catabolic process
                       xyloglucan catabolic process
              GO:0045490 pectin catabolic process

2. Other areas to consider: Degradation of storage carbohydrate

  Degradation of organelle carbohydrate
    Degradation of plastids

3. Cross link breaking

  backbone
  side chain

4. Soluble phenolics