Muscle biology- Muscle Implementation after Content Meeting

12 September, 2007

Participants: Erika Feltrin, Jennifer Deegan

We went through about two thirds of the list on the google spreadsheet and figured out what to do about each item.

13 September, 2007

Participants: Erika Feltrin, Jennifer Deegan

We went through the descendants of skeletal muscle regeneration and fixed the graph and definitions. We made the terms is_a complete as we went along.

We made a new term called cell-cell fusion as an is_a parent for the myoblast fusion term. Cell-cell fusion has been placed as a cellular process.

To Do

Fix the new cell fusion term that we made according to Midori's mail below:

We have 'cell-cell fusion' as a broad synonym of plasma membrane fusion:

[Term]
id: GO:0045026
name: plasma membrane fusion
namespace: biological_process
alt_id: GO:0006947
def: "The joining of two or more lipid bilayer membranes that surround a 
cell." [GOC:elh]
synonym: "cell-cell fusion" BROAD []
is_a: GO:0006944 ! membrane fusion

And if I understand the biology correctly (usual caveats apply), myoblast fusion could be a type of syncytium formation by plasma membrane fusion (GO:0000768).