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Restructure GO:0022857 transmembrane transporter activity branch #27495

Open hattrill opened 3 months ago

hattrill commented 3 months ago

The current structure of the GO:0022857 transmembrane transporter activity branch is not working very well for classifying TMTs. This is leading to some confusion over primary, secondary, faciltated diffusion and passive transport. See discussion on https://github.com/geneontology/go-ontology/issues/27340

The main framework currently this:

transmembrane transporter activity
    |__active transmembrane transporter activity
        |__primary active transmembrane transporter activity
        |__secondary active transmembrane transporter activity
            |__antiporter activity
            |__symporter activity
            |__uniporter activity
    |__passive transmembrane transporter activity
        |__channel activity

We propose that this structure, which is more inline with the current TC system would be less confusing:

transmembrane transporter activity
    |__primary active transmembrane transporter activity
    |__transmembrane carrier activity
        |__antiporter activity
        |__symporter activity
        |__uniporter activity
    |__channel activity
    |_group translocator activity 

The restructure would involve:

transmembrane transporter activity
    |__active transmembrane transporter activity **OBSOLETE** as unhelpful grouping term
        |__primary active transmembrane transporter activity
        |__secondary active transmembrane transporter activity **RENAME** to 'transmembrane carrier activity'
            |__antiporter activity
            |__symporter activity
            |__uniporter activity
    |__passive transmembrane transporter activity **OBSOLETE** as a single parent 'branch'
        |__channel activity
    |_group translocator activity **NEW**
hattrill commented 3 months ago

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hattrill commented 3 months ago

GO:0022804 active transmembrane transporter activity