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Source ontology files for the Gene Ontology
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Merge 'envenomation resulting in modulation of cell migration in another organism' into parent 'modulation of cell migration in another organism' #23656

Closed pgaudet closed 4 months ago

pgaudet commented 2 years ago
pgaudet commented 2 years ago

Need to find references - the papers cited dont clearly talk about the toxin modulating cell migration under physiological conditions:

pgaudet commented 2 years ago

this term is not precise enough to know what process is being disrupted: epithelial cell migration /wound healing? macrophage migration / immune response

@genegodbold @pmasson55 @mgiglio99 @dsiegele

Do you have examples of modulation of host cell migration for bacteria/viruses?

genegodbold commented 2 years ago

@pgaudet What counts as modulation of migration? Lots of bacterial virulence factors paralyze phagocytes like macrophages by messing with their cytoskeleton. This usually abolishes the ability to move/migrate.

Other factors affect the chemokine environment so that they don't move as they would in the absence of those virulence factors. There are secreted Streptococcal proteases that cleave interleukin-8 and complement inflammatory mediators like C5a so that the host neutrophils "lose" coordination of the response with deleterious effects on the host.

Is this modulation of migration? I count the former as anti-phagocytic and use terms like PATHGO:0000232 (suppresses phagocytosis in another organism) OR PATHGO:0000231 (suppresses opsonization in another organism)

I also use PathGO terms specifying what aspect of the host cell cytoskeleton is disabled 'in another organism' PATHGO:0000028 (modulates cytoskeleton dynamics in another organism)

pgaudet commented 2 years ago

Nice! These are much more specific. Thanks for pointing this out.

FJungo commented 2 years ago

Hi @pgaudet I reviewed all references linked to "cell migration" in UP entries of venoms, and found nothing physiological. Most of proteins were tested to find anti-cancer drugs. I suggest to definitely suppress the term "envenomation resulting ... cell migration in another organism".