[Go] Possible new GO terms for cell wall

[Diane Inglis]

Dear GO Consortium members,

I am curating at AspGD and am wondering what your policy is on adding new
cell wall terms for Aspergillus. During asexual development, Aspergillus
generates conidiophores that consist of several types of individual
specialized cells. These cells are conidia/spores, phialides, metulae
(phialides and metulae are also known as sterigmata), vesicle cells and
stalks. I am curating a paper in which the protein of interest is localized
specifically to the cell walls of the conidia and the phialides within the
conidiophore (PMID14599891).

I am wondering if it would be appropriate to request new cell wall terms
under Cellular Component specifically for these cell types ("spore cell
wall" and "phialide cell wall"). Currently there is a term "fungal-type cell
wall" and terms for more specialized cells walls such as "yeast form cell
wall" and "hyphal cell wall." Within the Aspergilli, the individual cells of
the conidiophore are developmentally distinct from hyphal cells so I think
it might be appropriate to add these terms.

Please let me know what your policy is on adding these terms.

Thank you!

Diane Inglis
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Diane O. Inglis, Ph.D.
Scientific Curator, Candida and Aspergillus Genome Databases
Department of Genetics
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, CA 94305-5120
Phone: 650-736-0075
http://www.candidagenome.org/
http://www.aspgd.org/
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