[Annotation] Annotating Viral Proteins

[Magdalen Lindeberg]

Jason,
The term you are looking for is "GO:0052559 : induction by symbiont of host 
immune response" which captures the biological process of interest as it 
occurs during the interaction between organisms

Magdalen Lindeberg


At 11:43 AM 1/30/2009, vanauken at caltech.edu wrote:
>Dear Jason,
>
>Thanks for writing to the GO.
>
>I am forwarding your email on to the GO annotation mailing list, as there
>are a number of people in GO who work on annotating host-pathogen
>interactions and they likely can give you good advice on annotating viral
>proteins.
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>Best,
>--Kimberly Van Auken
>Database Curator, WormBase
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>
> > Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:54:59 -0800 (PST)
> > To: gohelp at genome.stanford.edu
> > Subject: GO Help query (from Jason Pokorny)
> > From: jpokorny at mcw.edu
> >
> > contactName: Jason Pokorny
> > contactEmail: jpokorny at mcw.edu
> > contactText: I have a viral protein (Vaccinia Virus H3) that has been
> > shown to be antigentic to the host during infection.  I want to assign
> > this protein to a biological process, but I can't determine the best term.
> >  I though that "activation of immune response GO:0002253" may be
> > appropriate.  However, I feel this term was intended for cellular proteins
> > where the cell is the host of the infection and not for the proteins in
> > the infectious agent.  Any advice?  Thanks.
> >
> >
>
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