[Ontology-editors] [Refgenome] Cell fractions

Harold Drabkin hjd at informatics.jax.org
Thu Feb 12 07:21:45 PST 2009


Harold Drabkin wrote:
> I strongly disagree. Without the IMP you would not know what protein  
> you are assaying.  You have no other evidence to directly link the the 
> specific gene product to the activity. Without the IMP, the assay just 
> says that this activity is present, but it could be one of several 
> proteins. The IMP says which one.
>
> hjd
>
>
> Pankaj Jaiswal (OSU) wrote:
>> Harold,
>>
>> But I guess the confirmation that the activity was present in the 
>> fraction-X was estimated by IDA / western. Whether it was 
>> present/absent in mutant/reference is a different issue. The 
>> confirmation is based on the exact experimental method i.e. 
>> western/enzymatic assay of the fraction and not the genotype 
>> (mutant/ref/WT) of the individual being assayed.
>>
>> I concur with Chris it should be limited to only IDA and IEP.
>>
>> Pankaj
>>
>> Harold Drabkin wrote:
>>> No, not necessarily. If a  cell-fractions from mutant and wild type 
>>> were examined for the presence of the protein by either western or 
>>> assay, the difference between the mutant and wild type is the basis 
>>> for the IMP. Or, a western could be done and it appears in a sample 
>>> from one fraction in wild type but not mutant. If the comparison is 
>>> not made, and it is some activity measurement in a crude assay, the 
>>> identify of the protein cannot be made.
>>>
>>> hd
>>>
>>> Chris Mungall wrote:
>>>> Following on from our call this morning - it seems the cell 
>>>> fraction terms may be around for a while yet. However, I was 
>>>> wondering what people's opinions were on evidence codes for 
>>>> fraction terms. I'm not really sure how valid it is to make an ISS 
>>>> to a fraction term. Or an IMP. Shouldn't IDA be the only code allowed?
>>>>
>>>> Here are some IMPs for microsome:
>>>>
>>>> http://amigo.geneontology.org/cgi-bin/amigo/term-assoc.cgi?gptype=all&speciesdb=all&taxid=all&evcode=IMP&term_assocs=all&term=GO%3A0005792&action=filter 
>>>> <http://amigo.geneontology.org/cgi-bin/amigo/term-assoc.cgi?gptype=all&speciesdb=all&taxid=all&evcode=IMP&term_assocs=all&term=GO%3A0005792&action=filter> 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I followed up the mouse one and am not really sure how the IMP is 
>>>> justified
>>>>
>>>> Here are some numbers for the genes annotated to cell fractions 
>>>> using different evidence codes
>>>>
>>>>>> +------------+---------------------------------------------+--------------------+------+---------+ 
>>>>>> | acc        | name                                        | 
>>>>>> term_type          | code | n_genes | 
>>>>>> +------------+---------------------------------------------+--------------------+------+---------+ 
>>>>>> | GO:0000267 | cell fraction                               | 
>>>>>> cellular_component | IDA  |       3 | | GO:0000267 | cell 
>>>>>> fraction                               | cellular_component | 
>>>>>> NAS  |       1 | | GO:0000299 | integral to membrane of membrane 
>>>>>> fraction   | cellular_component | IDA  |      27 | | GO:0000299 | 
>>>>>> integral to membrane of membrane fraction   | cellular_component 
>>>>>> | IPI  |       2 | | GO:0000299 | integral to membrane of 
>>>>>> membrane fraction   | cellular_component | ISA  |       1 | | 
>>>>>> GO:0000299 | integral to membrane of membrane fraction   | 
>>>>>> cellular_component | ISO  |       2 | | GO:0000299 | integral to 
>>>>>> membrane of membrane fraction   | cellular_component | ISS  
>>>>>> |      16 | | GO:0000299 | integral to membrane of membrane 
>>>>>> fraction   | cellular_component | NAS  |       1 | | GO:0000299 | 
>>>>>> integral to membrane of membrane fraction   | cellular_component 
>>>>>> | TAS  |       3 | | GO:0000300 | peripheral to membrane of 
>>>>>> membrane fraction | cellular_component | IDA  |      28 | | 
>>>>>> GO:0000300 | peripheral to membrane of membrane fraction | 
>>>>>> cellular_component | IPI  |       1 | | GO:0000300 | peripheral 
>>>>>> to membrane of membrane fraction | cellular_component | ISA  
>>>>>> |       1 | | GO:0000300 | peripheral to membrane of membrane 
>>>>>> fraction | cellular_component | ISO  |       3 | | GO:0000300 | 
>>>>>> peripheral to membrane of membrane fraction | cellular_component 
>>>>>> | ISS  |       6 | | GO:0005624 | membrane 
>>>>>> fraction                           | cellular_component | IDA  
>>>>>> |     615 | | GO:0005624 | membrane 
>>>>>> fraction                           | cellular_component | IGI  
>>>>>> |       1 | | GO:0005624 | membrane 
>>>>>> fraction                           | cellular_component | IMP  
>>>>>> |       5 | | GO:0005624 | membrane 
>>>>>> fraction                           | cellular_component | ISA  
>>>>>> |       4 | | GO:0005624 | membrane 
>>>>>> fraction                           | cellular_component | ISO  
>>>>>> |      19 | | GO:0005624 | membrane 
>>>>>> fraction                           | cellular_component | ISS  
>>>>>> |     280 | | GO:0005624 | membrane 
>>>>>> fraction                           | cellular_component | NAS  
>>>>>> |      17 | | GO:0005624 | membrane 
>>>>>> fraction                           | cellular_component | RCA  
>>>>>> |       2 | | GO:0005624 | membrane 
>>>>>> fraction                           | cellular_component | TAS  
>>>>>> |     249 | | GO:0005625 | soluble 
>>>>>> fraction                            | cellular_component | IDA  
>>>>>> |     428 | | GO:0005625 | soluble 
>>>>>> fraction                            | cellular_component | IMP  
>>>>>> |       2 | | GO:0005625 | soluble 
>>>>>> fraction                            | cellular_component | ISA  
>>>>>> |       1 | | GO:0005625 | soluble 
>>>>>> fraction                            | cellular_component | ISO  
>>>>>> |       8 | | GO:0005625 | soluble 
>>>>>> fraction                            | cellular_component | ISS  
>>>>>> |      99 | | GO:0005625 | soluble 
>>>>>> fraction                            | cellular_component | NAS  
>>>>>> |      10 | | GO:0005625 | soluble 
>>>>>> fraction                            | cellular_component | TAS  
>>>>>> |     135 | | GO:0005626 | insoluble 
>>>>>> fraction                          | cellular_component | IDA  
>>>>>> |      65 | | GO:0005626 | insoluble 
>>>>>> fraction                          | cellular_component | ISO  
>>>>>> |       1 | | GO:0005626 | insoluble 
>>>>>> fraction                          | cellular_component | ISS  
>>>>>> |      32 | | GO:0005626 | insoluble 
>>>>>> fraction                          | cellular_component | TAS  
>>>>>> |       5 | | GO:0005792 | 
>>>>>> microsome                                   | cellular_component 
>>>>>> | IDA  |     240 | | GO:0005792 | 
>>>>>> microsome                                   | cellular_component 
>>>>>> | IMP  |       5 | | GO:0005792 | 
>>>>>> microsome                                   | cellular_component 
>>>>>> | IPI  |       3 | | GO:0005792 | 
>>>>>> microsome                                   | cellular_component 
>>>>>> | ISA  |       2 | | GO:0005792 | 
>>>>>> microsome                                   | cellular_component 
>>>>>> | ISO  |       4 | | GO:0005792 | 
>>>>>> microsome                                   | cellular_component 
>>>>>> | ISS  |     105 | | GO:0005792 | 
>>>>>> microsome                                   | cellular_component 
>>>>>> | NAS  |      97 | | GO:0005792 | 
>>>>>> microsome                                   | cellular_component 
>>>>>> | RCA  |       1 | | GO:0005792 | 
>>>>>> microsome                                   | cellular_component 
>>>>>> | TAS  |      40 | | GO:0019717 | 
>>>>>> synaptosome                                 | cellular_component 
>>>>>> | IDA  |      77 | | GO:0019717 | 
>>>>>> synaptosome                                 | cellular_component 
>>>>>> | IEP  |       1 | | GO:0019717 | 
>>>>>> synaptosome                                 | cellular_component 
>>>>>> | ISA  |       1 | | GO:0019717 | 
>>>>>> synaptosome                                 | cellular_component 
>>>>>> | ISO  |       5 | | GO:0019717 | 
>>>>>> synaptosome                                 | cellular_component 
>>>>>> | ISS  |      34 | | GO:0019717 | 
>>>>>> synaptosome                                 | cellular_component 
>>>>>> | NAS  |       2 | | GO:0019718 | rough 
>>>>>> microsome                             | cellular_component | IDA  
>>>>>> |       5 | | GO:0019719 | smooth 
>>>>>> microsome                            | cellular_component | IDA  
>>>>>> |       1 | | GO:0042598 | vesicular 
>>>>>> fraction                          | cellular_component | IDA  
>>>>>> |      12 | | GO:0042598 | vesicular 
>>>>>> fraction                          | cellular_component | ISS  
>>>>>> |       7 | 
>>>>>> +------------+---------------------------------------------+--------------------+------+---------+ 
>>>>>> 53 rows in set (36.97 sec) 
>>>>
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>>>>
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