[Annotation] annotating ribosomal proteins

Karen Christie kchris at genome.stanford.edu
Wed Jun 18 11:25:29 PDT 2008


sure ;) SGD wouldn't mind. We're mostly done with all 138 or so of them, 
and only a minority of ours have duplicated genes!




... probably not a good idea to do them all in one month

-Karen


On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Pascale Gaudet wrote:

> On a related topic-  should we take all ribosomal proteins as annotation targets for
> July?
> 
> Karen Christie wrote:
>       we're talking about the process annotations (and the contributes to
>       qualifier is valid only for function) and which evidence code to use.
>
>       -K
> 
>
>       On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, hjd at informatics.jax.org wrote:
>
>             I would think the individual members of the complex would an a
>             contribute_to qualifer for the activity term annotation, with
>             each member
>             having a component annotation to the complex. That way no one
>             would be
>             confused into thinking that the particuarl protein had the
>             activity all by
>             itself.
>
>             hjd
> 
>
>                   Hi,
>
>                   I don't think I can contribute anything but more
>                   questions to this
>                   discussion, but would really like to know the
>                   answers.  First of all, I
>                   could absolutely swear that not too long ago, I saw
>                   a sentence somewhere
>                   in the annotation documentation saying something
>                   along the lines of, if
>                   a complex has a function, the function is
>                   transferred to its subunits.
>                   (Maybe it was about process, I don't recall.)
>                   However, I can not find
>                   this anywhere any more.  It is very important to us
>                   to know the answer
>                   to this; in EcoCyc, I have the ability to annotate
>                   complexes themselves
>                   with GO terms, and I think those become attached to
>                   the individual gene
>                   products for the mapping file.
>
>                   While poking around in the guide, I only found a
>                   couple of relevant
>                   references to protein complexes.  Under "Valid
>                   Function Terms" in
>                   http://geneontology.org/GO.function.guidelines.shtml,
>                   it says this:
>                   "Functions are not restricted to the activities of
>                   single gene products;
>                   multi-gene product complexes can also have
>                   functions."  That's generous
>                   :-) , but no word on how to transfer those functions
>                   to single gene
>                   products.  There is also a section on "Function
>                   Terms for Subunits",
>                   which refers to the GO annotation guide for advice
>                   on how to annotate
>                   subunits of a complex - in this case, referring to
>                   itself is not
>                   entirely useful.
>
>                    From the discussion so far, my take-home message
>                   was that one should
>                   never annotate components of a complex to a process
>                   or function of the
>                   complex with IDA.  Is this the correct impression?
>                   If yes, then looking
>                   at this the other way, any function/process that is
>                   performed by a
>                   multi-subunit complex will never have an IDA
>                   annotation.  No more IDAs
>                   for translation, replication, transcription,...?
>
>                   Aside from my IDA concerns, would it be possible to
>                   use IMP?  Granted,
>                   if the mutant phenotype is death, that's not very
>                   interesting (Botstein
>                   said so himself) nor very informative in and of
>                   itself, but if a protein
>                   is part of the ribosome and you can't knock out the
>                   gene without killing
>                   the cell, would it be a safe assumption that said
>                   subunit is involved in
>                   translation?  (I think there *are* non-essential
>                   ribosomal subunits,
>                   which would then not get the translation term.)
>
>                   -Ingrid
>
>                   Valerie Wood wrote:
>
>                         I was thinking along the same lines, but
>                         that we could do IPI with
>                         GO:complexID
>
>                         I don't think we should use IDA. Up to
>                         now, where there is no direct
>                         evidence for the process, I have used IC
>                         from GO:complexID for the
>                         process if the inference can be made
>                         from an IDA to a complex,  but
>                         this is probably not  ideal.
>
>                         Val
>
>                         Midori Harris wrote:
>                               Reactome has identifiers for
>                               complexes ... could you use
>                               IPI with the
>                               Reactome ID for the
>                               ribosome? (E.g. S.
>                               cerevisiae ribosome is
>                               Reactome:141693; H. sapiens
>                               is 72500.)
>
>                               If this is a stupid idea,
>                               I'll bow out quietly ...
>                               it's been a long,
>                               long time since I did
>                               annotation.
>
>                               m
>
>                               On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Karen
>                               Christie wrote:
>
>                                     As of the 2006
>                                     Annotation camp,
>                                     we agreed that
>                                     IPI could only
>                                     be
>                                     used when you
>                                     know it is a
>                                     direct
>                                     interaction and
>                                     that you should
>                                     fill the with
>                                     column with the
>                                     directly
>                                     interacting gene
>                                     products.
>
>                                     Prior to that, I
>                                     often used to
>                                     use IPI for the
>                                     proteins that
>                                     came
>                                     down in a
>                                     complex, and for
>                                     'modern'
>                                     purifications
>                                     where one
>                                     protein
>                                     was tagged, I'd
>                                     put that one in
>                                     the with column.
>                                     But we agreed
>                                     that
>                                     it isn't known
>                                     that this is
>                                     direct, so we
>                                     quit doing it.
>                                     I've been
>                                     having the same
>                                     problem with
>                                     spliceosomal
>                                     complexes and
>                                     have become
>                                     rather unkeen on
>                                     the decision
>                                     that IPI could
>                                     only be used for
>                                     known
>                                     direct
>                                     interactions. It
>                                     seems that this
>                                     requirement got
>                                     added by the
>                                     people who want
>                                     to use the IPI
>                                     with field as a
>                                     protein-protein
>                                     interaction
>                                     database.
>
>                                     Anyway, I
>                                     thought that IPI
>                                     with the tagged
>                                     protein seemed
>                                     like a
>                                     much better
>                                     representation
>                                     of the evidence
>                                     for the process
>                                     than IDA.
>                                     Coming down as
>                                     part of a
>                                     complex doesn't
>                                     seem like a
>                                     direct assay
>                                     for process. IPI
>                                     with one of the
>                                     proteins in the
>                                     complex seems
>                                     like
>                                     a better
>                                     representation
>                                     of what was
>                                     actually done,
>                                     but we can't do
>                                     now that because
>                                     of the direct
>                                     interaction
>                                     requirement.
>
>                                     IC also seems a
>                                     little
>                                     unsatisfying,
>                                     since it's not
>                                     experimental. I
>                                     don't know,
>                                     maybe for
>                                     complexes as
>                                     well
>                                     characterized as
>                                     the
>                                     ribosome, or the
>                                     spliceosome,
>                                     just being in
>                                     the complex is
>                                     direct
>                                     evidence that
>                                     it's part of the
>                                     process that the
>                                     complex is
>                                     experimentally
>                                     characterized to
>                                     be part of...
>
>                                     I've been a bit
>                                     muddled about
>                                     how best to deal
>                                     with these ever
>                                     since
>                                     the 2006
>                                     Annotation camp.
>                                     I liked using
>                                     IPI better than
>                                     IDA...
>
>                                     -Karen
> 
>
>                                     On Tue, 17 Jun
>                                     2008, Pascale
>                                     Gaudet wrote:
>
>                                           Can
>                                           you
>                                           then
>                                           IPI
>                                           the
>                                           process?
>
>                                           Doug
>                                           howe
>                                           wrote:
>
>                                           I
>                                           think:
>
>                                           "the
>                                           IDA
>                                           is
>                                           just
>                                           for
>                                           the
>                                           annotation
>                                           to
>                                           the
>                                           complex
>                                           term
>                                           and
>                                           then
>                                           use
>                                           IC
>                                           from
>                                           the
>
>                                           complex
>                                           term
>                                           for
>                                           the
>                                           Process
>                                           annotation"
>
>                                           is
>                                           the
>                                           way
>                                           to
>                                           go.
>
>
>                                           Doug
>
>
>                                           Karen
>                                           Christie
>                                           wrote:
>
>                                           Hi
>                                           Pascale,
>
>
>                                           Rama
>                                           is
>                                           looking
>                                           at
>                                           the
>                                           original
>                                           papers,
>                                           and
>                                           ribosomes
>                                           and
>                                           the
>                                           processes
>
>                                           of
>                                           ribosome
>                                           assembly
>                                           are
>                                           probably
>                                           better
>                                           characterized
>                                           in
>                                           cerevisiae
>
>                                           than
>                                           in
>                                           any
>                                           other
>                                           eukaryote.
>
>
>                                           The
>                                           real
>                                           issue
>                                           here
>                                           is
>                                           that
>                                           what
>                                           has
>                                           been
>                                           shown
>                                           is
>                                           that
>                                           protein
>                                           X is
>
>                                           part
>                                           of a
>                                           big
>                                           complex,
>                                           e.g.
>                                           the
>                                           ribosome,
>                                           for
>                                           which
>                                           the
>                                           function
>                                           is
>
>                                           known.
>                                           The
>                                           sum
>                                           total
>                                           of
>                                           the
>                                           experimental
>                                           evidence
>                                           available
>                                           for
>                                           a
>
>                                           significant
>                                           number
>                                           of
>                                           ribosomal
>                                           proteins
>                                           is
>                                           that
>                                           they
>                                           are
>                                           purified
>                                           as
>
>                                           part
>                                           of
>                                           the
>                                           ribosome
>                                           complex.
>                                           So,
>                                           for
>                                           component,
>                                           it's
>                                           easy.
>                                           This
>                                           is
>                                           IDA
>
>                                           evidence
>                                           that
>                                           protein
>                                           X is
>                                           in
>                                           the
>                                           ribosome,
>                                           or
>                                           in
>                                           the
>                                           Small
>                                           SubUnit
>
>                                           (SSU)
>                                           or
>                                           in
>                                           the
>                                           Large
>                                           SubUnit
>                                           (LSU),
>                                           or
>                                           whatever
>                                           complex
>                                           is
>
>                                           characterized.
>
>
>                                           But
>                                           is
>                                           being
>                                           in
>                                           the
>                                           ribosome
>                                           considered
>                                           to
>                                           be
>                                           IDA
>                                           evidence
>                                           for
>                                           a
>                                           process
>
>                                           annotation
>                                           to
>                                           translation?
>                                           In
>                                           one
>                                           way
>                                           of
>                                           looking
>                                           at
>                                           it,
>                                           the
>                                           direct
>                                           assay
>
>                                           is
>                                           that
>                                           it's
>                                           part
>                                           of a
>                                           complex
>                                           and
>                                           then
>                                           you're
>                                           assuming
>                                           that
>                                           the
>
>                                           individual
>                                           protein
>                                           is
>                                           involved
>                                           in
>                                           translation
>                                           because
>                                           it's
>                                           in
>                                           that
>
>                                           complex.
>                                           Is
>                                           this
>                                           a
>                                           direct
>                                           assay
>                                           for
>                                           being
>                                           involved
>                                           in
>                                           translation?
>                                           Can
>
>                                           we
>                                           use
>                                           IDA
>                                           for
>                                           a
>                                           process
>                                           annotation?
>                                           or
>                                           is
>                                           it a
>                                           more
>                                           accurate
>                                           statement
>
>                                           to
>                                           say
>                                           that
>                                           the
>                                           IDA
>                                           is
>                                           just
>                                           for
>                                           the
>                                           annotation
>                                           to
>                                           the
>                                           complex
>                                           term
>                                           and
>
>                                           then
>                                           use
>                                           IC
>                                           from
>                                           the
>                                           complex
>                                           term
>                                           for
>                                           the
>                                           Process
>                                           annotation?
>
>
>                                           -Karen
> 
> 
>
>
>                                           On
>                                           Tue,
>                                           17
>                                           Jun
>                                           2008,
>                                           Pascale
>                                           Gaudet
>                                           wrote:
>
>
>                                           Hi
>                                           Rama,
>
>
>                                           I
>                                           think
>                                           this
>                                           is a
>                                           perfect
>                                           case
>                                           where
>                                           one
>                                           of
>                                           us
>                                           should
>                                           go
>
>                                           back
>                                           to
>                                           the
>                                           original
>                                           papers
>                                           and
>                                           find
>
>                                           what
>                                           we
>                                           all
>                                           need
>                                           to
>                                           ISS
>                                           to
>                                           (in
>                                           which
>                                           organism
>                                           the
>                                           funtion
>
>                                           and
>                                           process
>                                           were
>                                           shown).
>
>
>                                           Pascale
>
>
>                                           Rama
>                                           Balakrishnan
>                                           wrote:
>
>                                           Hi,
>
>
>                                           I
>                                           have
>                                           couple
>                                           of
>                                           ribosomal
>                                           proteins
>                                           to
>                                           annotate
>                                           as
>
>                                           part
>                                           of
>                                           the
>                                           ref-genome
>                                           curation
>
>                                           project.
>                                           Turns
>                                           out
>                                           that
>                                           there
>                                           is
>                                           no
>                                           direct
>
>                                           experimental
>                                           evidence
>                                           showing
>                                           that
>                                           these
>
>                                           proteins
>                                           are
>                                           involved
>                                           in
>                                           translation.
>                                           Almost
>                                           all
>                                           the
>
>                                           studies
>                                           purify
>                                           the
>                                           ribosome
>
>                                           from
>                                           yeast
>                                           and
>                                           identify
>                                           the
>                                           subunits
>                                           by
>                                           one
>                                           or
>                                           more
>
>                                           techniques.
>
>
>                                           I
>                                           can
>                                           do
>                                           IDA
>                                           for
>                                           CC
>                                           annotation,
>                                           that
>                                           is
>
>                                           straightforward.
>                                           Is
>                                           IDA
>                                           for
>                                           function
>
>                                           annotation-
>                                           structural
>                                           constituent
>                                           of
>                                           ribsomome
>                                           okay?
>
>                                           What
>                                           about
>                                           BP?
>                                           I
>                                           can
>                                           do
>                                           IC
>
>                                           from
>                                           the
>                                           CC
>                                           term,
>                                           but
>                                           that
>                                           is
>                                           not
>                                           direct
>                                           experimental
>
>                                           evidence.
>                                           What
>                                           do
>                                           you
>                                           all
>
>                                           think?
>
>
>                                           Thanks
>                                           for
>                                           your
>                                           time,
>
>
>                                           Rama
> 
>
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