--------------------------------------------------------------------------- UniProt Knowledgebase: Swiss-Prot Protein Knowledgebase TrEMBL Protein Database SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics; Geneva, Switzerland European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI); Hinxton, United Kingdom Protein Information Resource (PIR); Washington DC, USA --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description: Controlled vocabulary of keywords Name: keywlist.txt Release: 2024_02 of 27-Mar-2024 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This document lists the keywords and categories used in the UniProt knowledgebase (Swiss-Prot and TrEMBL). The keywords are classified into the following 10 categories: * Biological process * Cellular component * Coding sequence diversity * Developmental stage * Disease * Domain * Ligand * Molecular function * PTM * Technical term The definition of the keywords and categories usage as well as other information is provided in the following format: --------- --------------------------- ------------------------------ Line code Content Occurrence in an entry --------- --------------------------- ------------------------------ ID Identifier (keyword) Once; starts a keyword entry IC Identifier (category) Once; starts a category entry AC Accession (KW-xxxx) Once DE Definition Once or more SY Synonyms Optional; once or more GO Gene ontology (GO) mapping Optional; once or more HI Hierarchy Optional; once or more WW Relevant WWW site Optional; once or more CA Category Once per keyword entry; absent in category entries // Terminator Once; ends an entry ___________________________________________________________________________ ID 2Fe-2S. AC KW-0001 DE Protein which contains at least one 2Fe-2S iron-sulfur cluster: 2 iron DE atoms complexed to 2 inorganic sulfides and 4 sulfur atoms of DE cysteines from the protein. SY [2Fe-2S] cluster; [Fe2S2] cluster; 2 iron, 2 sulfur cluster binding; SY Di-mu-sulfido-diiron; Fe2/S2 (inorganic) cluster; Fe2S2. GO GO:0051537; 2 iron, 2 sulfur cluster binding HI Ligand: Iron; Iron-sulfur; 2Fe-2S. HI Ligand: Metal-binding; Iron-sulfur; 2Fe-2S. HI Ligand: Metal-binding; 2Fe-2S. CA Ligand. // ID 3D-structure. AC KW-0002 DE Protein, or part of a protein, whose three-dimensional structure has DE been resolved experimentally (for example by X-ray crystallography or DE NMR spectroscopy) and whose coordinates are available in the PDB DE database. Can also be used for theoretical models. HI Technical term: 3D-structure. CA Technical term. // ID 3Fe-4S. AC KW-0003 DE Protein which contains at least one 3Fe-4S iron-sulfur cluster: 3 iron DE atoms complexed to 4 inorganic sulfides and 3 sulfur atoms of DE cysteines from the protein. In a number of iron-sulfur proteins, the DE 4Fe-4S cluster can be reversibly converted by oxidation and loss of DE one iron ion to a 3Fe-4S cluster. GO GO:0051538; 3 iron, 4 sulfur cluster binding HI Ligand: Iron; Iron-sulfur; 3Fe-4S. HI Ligand: Metal-binding; Iron-sulfur; 3Fe-4S. HI Ligand: Metal-binding; 3Fe-4S. CA Ligand. // ID 4Fe-4S. AC KW-0004 DE Protein which contains at least one 4Fe-4S iron-sulfur cluster: 4 iron DE atoms complexed to 4 inorganic sulfides and 4 sulfur atoms of DE cysteines from the protein. In a number of iron-sulfur proteins, the DE 4Fe-4S cluster can be reversibly converted by oxidation and loss of DE one iron ion to a 3Fe-4S cluster. GO GO:0051539; 4 iron, 4 sulfur cluster binding HI Ligand: Iron; Iron-sulfur; 4Fe-4S. HI Ligand: Metal-binding; Iron-sulfur; 4Fe-4S. HI Ligand: Metal-binding; 4Fe-4S. CA Ligand. // ID Abscisic acid biosynthesis. AC KW-0937 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of abscisic acid (ABA) (5-(1- DE hydroxy-2,6,6,trimethyl-4-oxocyclohex-2-en-1-y1)-3-methylpenta-2,4- DE dienoic acid). ABA is a plant hormone which play a role in many DE aspects of plant growth, development and cellular signaling (e.g. seed DE dormancy, seed maturation, vegetative growth and responses to various DE environmental stimuli such as stomatal closure during drought). This DE phytohormone can be synthesized from farnesyl diphosphate (direct C15 DE pathway) or from 9-cis-violaxanthine (indirect C40 pathway). SY ABA anabolism; ABA biosynthesis; ABA formation; ABA synthesis; SY Abscisic acid anabolism; Abscisic acid biosynthetic process; SY Abscisic acid formation; Abscisic acid synthesis. GO GO:0009688; abscisic acid biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Abscisic acid biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Abscisic acid signaling pathway. AC KW-0938 DE Protein involved in the abscisic acid (ABA) (5-(1-hydroxy- DE 2,6,6,trimethyl-4-oxocyclohex-2-en-1-y1)-3-methylpenta-2,4-dienoic DE acid) signaling pathway (e.g. transport and signal transduction) that DE regulates many aspects of plant growth, development and cellular DE signaling (e.g. seed dormancy, seed maturation, vegetative growth and DE responses to various environmental stimuli such as stomatal closure DE during drought). This phytohormone can be synthesized from farnesyl DE diphosphate (direct C15 pathway) or from 9-cis-violaxanthine (indirect DE C40 pathway). SY ABA mediated signaling; ABA signaling pathway; SY Abscisic acid mediated signaling. GO GO:0009738; abscisic acid-activated signaling pathway HI Biological process: Abscisic acid signaling pathway. CA Biological process. // ID Acetoin biosynthesis. AC KW-0005 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of acetoin (3-hydroxy-2-butanone). DE Acetoin is a component of the butanediol cycle (butanediol DE fermentation) in microorganisms. SY 3-hydroxy-2-butanone anabolism; 3-hydroxy-2-butanone biosynthesis; SY 3-hydroxy-2-butanone biosynthetic process; SY 3-hydroxy-2-butanone formation; 3-hydroxy-2-butanone synthesis; SY Acetoin anabolism; Acetoin biosynthetic process; Acetoin formation; SY Acetoin synthesis. GO GO:0045151; acetoin biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Acetoin biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Acetoin catabolism. AC KW-0006 DE Protein involved in the degradation of acetoin (3-hydroxy-2-butanone). DE Acetoin is a component of the butanediol cycle (butanediol DE fermentation) in microorganisms. SY 3-hydroxy-2-butanone breakdown; SY 3-hydroxy-2-butanone catabolic process; SY 3-hydroxy-2-butanone catabolism; 3-hydroxy-2-butanone degradation; SY Acetoin breakdown; Acetoin catabolic process; Acetoin degradation. GO GO:0045150; acetoin catabolic process HI Biological process: Acetoin catabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Acetylation. AC KW-0007 DE Protein which is posttranslationally modified by the attachment of at DE least one acetyl group; generally at the N-terminus. SY Acetylated; N-acetylated. HI PTM: Acetylation. CA PTM. // ID Acetylcholine receptor inhibiting toxin. AC KW-0008 DE Toxin which interferes with the function of the nicotinic DE acetylcholine receptor (nAChR). The nAChR is a postsynaptic membrane DE protein that undergoes an extensive conformational change upon binding DE to acetylcholine, leading to opening of an ion-conducting channel DE across the plasma membrane. These toxins are mostly found in snake and DE cone snail venoms. SY nAChR inhibitor; Nicotinic AChR inhibitor. GO GO:0030550; acetylcholine receptor inhibitor activity HI Molecular function: Toxin; Neurotoxin; Postsynaptic neurotoxin; Acetylcholine receptor inhibiting toxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Actin capping. AC KW-0117 DE Protein that binds to the free end of the actin filament and thereby DE blocks further addition of subunits. SY Actin filament capping; F-actin capping. GO GO:0051693; actin filament capping HI Molecular function: Actin capping. CA Molecular function. // ID Actin-binding. AC KW-0009 DE Protein which binds to actin, and thereby can modulate the properties DE and/or functions of the actin filament. SY Actin filament binding. GO GO:0003779; actin binding HI Molecular function: Actin-binding. CA Molecular function. // ID Actin-dependent inwards viral transport. AC KW-1178 DE Viral protein that allows the active transport of viral material along DE actin filaments toward the intracellular replication sites during DE virus entry. This transport probably involves motor proteins like DE myosins or polymerization/depolymerization reactions as a driving DE force. Viruses such as poliovirus may utilize this type of DE intracellular transport. GO GO:0039680; actin-dependent intracellular transport of virus towards nucleus HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Cytoplasmic inwards viral transport; Actin-dependent inwards viral transport. CA Biological process. // ID Activation of host autophagy by virus. AC KW-1072 DE Viral protein involved in the activation of host autophagy. Autophagy DE is a major intracellular pathway in the delivery of cytoplasmic DE material to lysosomes for degradation. It is also essential for the DE removal of pathogenic protein aggregates from the cell during DE infection. Although autophagy is clearly important for antiviral DE immune response, it can also be activated by viruses and serves as DE platform for viral replication. Some viruses such as poliovirus, use DE the autophagic pathway as a nonlytic mechanism for viral release. GO GO:0039520; induction by virus of host autophagy HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Activation of host autophagy by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Activation of host caspases by virus. AC KW-1073 DE Viral protein involved in the activation of host cell apoptosis by DE acting on host caspases. While many viruses encode protein that DE inhibit apoptosis, viruses can also use apoptosis to their advantage DE to suppress immune response or to disseminate. Therefore, some viral DE proteins are able to cleave or activate caspases in order to promote DE apoptosis. GO GO:0019051; induction by virus of host apoptotic process HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Modulation of host cell apoptosis by virus; Activation of host caspases by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Activation of host NF-kappa-B by virus. AC KW-1074 DE Viral protein involved in the activation of host NF-kappa-B. This DE protein is a pleiotropic transcription factor which is present in DE almost all cell types and is involved in many biological processed DE such as inflammation, immunity, differentiation, cell growth, DE tumorigenesis and apoptosis. Several viruses have developed strategies DE to activate the NF-kappa-B pathway in order to promote viral DE replication and prevent virus-induced apoptosis. GO GO:0039652; induction by virus of host NF-kappaB cascade HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Activation of host NF-kappa-B by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Activator. AC KW-0010 DE Protein that positively regulates either the transcription of one or DE more genes, or the translation of mRNA. SY Positive activator. HI Molecular function: Activator. CA Molecular function. // ID Acute phase. AC KW-0011 DE Protein involved in acute phase, a response of the vertebrate body to DE insults, infections, immunological reactions or inflammatory DE processes; characterised by redness (rubor), heat (calor), swelling DE (tumor), pain (dolor) and sometimes loss of function. SY Acute-phase reaction; Acute-phase response. GO GO:0006953; acute-phase response HI Biological process: Acute phase. CA Biological process. // ID Acyltransferase. AC KW-0012 DE Enzyme catalyzing the transfer of acyl- (RCO-) groups. GO GO:0016746; acyltransferase activity HI Molecular function: Transferase; Acyltransferase. CA Molecular function. // ID Adaptive immunity. AC KW-1064 DE Protein involved in adaptive immunity. Vertebrates can develop a broad DE and almost infinite repertoire of antigen-specific receptors, which DE allows vertebrates to recognize almost any potential pathogen or toxin DE and to mount antigen-specific responses to it. Two types of adaptive DE immunity systems have evolved in vertebrates in order to generate DE immune receptor diversity. The jawed vertebrates strategy uses the DE V(D)JC recombination to achieve combinatorial diversity of DE immunoglobulin-based B cell receptors and T cell receptors. The DE jawless vertebrate strategy uses the somatic rearrangements of DE variable leucine-rich cassettes in the variable lymphocyte receptors DE (VLRs). The hallmarks of an adaptive immune system is the production DE of antigen-specific recognition receptor by somatic gene DE rearrangement. The long life of some antigen-primed cytotoxic DE lymphocytes and plasma cells provide protective memory to prevent DE reinvasion. SY Acquired immunity. GO GO:0002250; adaptive immune response HI Biological process: Immunity; Adaptive immunity. WW https://www.nature.com/articles/nri2686 CA Biological process. // ID ADP-ribosylation. AC KW-0013 DE Protein which is posttranslationally modified by the attachment of at DE least one ADP-ribosyl group. SY Adenosinediphospho-ribosylation; ADP-ribosylated. HI PTM: ADP-ribosylation. CA PTM. // ID Age-related macular degeneration. AC KW-0913 DE Protein which, if defective, causes age-related macular degeneration DE (ARMD), the most common cause of irreversible vision loss in the DE developed world. In most patients, the disease is manifest as DE ophthalmoscopically visible yellowish accumulations of protein and DE lipid (known as drusen) that lie beneath the retinal pigment DE epithelium and within an elastin-containing structure known as Bruch's DE membrane. ARMD is likely to be a mechanistically heterogeneous group DE of disorders, and the specific disease mechanisms that underlie the DE vast majority of cases are currently unknown. However, a number of DE studies have suggested that both genetic and environmental factors are DE likely to play a role. SY ARMD. HI Disease: Age-related macular degeneration. CA Disease. // ID Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome. AC KW-0948 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome, a DE genetic disorder that is phenotypically similar to in utero viral DE infection. The disease is characterized by severe neurological DE dysfunction in infancy, leading to progressive microcephaly, DE spasticity, dystonic posturing, profound psychomotor retardation and DE often death in early childhood. SY AGS; Cree encephalitis; Pseudo-torch syndrome; SY Pseudotoxoplasmosis syndrome. HI Disease: Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome. CA Disease. // ID AIDS. AC KW-0014 DE Protein encoded by the human immunodeficiency viruses HIV-1 or HIV-2, DE which are the cause of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). This DE disease is characterized by a severe defect of cell-mediated immunity DE which is often accompanied by cancers such as Kaposi's sarcoma, as DE well as secondary infections such as tuberculosis. SY Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. HI Disease: AIDS. CA Disease. // ID Albinism. AC KW-0015 DE Protein which, if defective, causes albinism, a genetically determined DE or environmentally induced absence of pigmentation in animals normally DE pigmented. This can lead for example to lack of pigmentation in hair, DE skin and eyes. HI Disease: Albinism. CA Disease. // ID Alginate biosynthesis. AC KW-0016 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of alginate. Alginate is an DE exopolysaccharide in the cell walls of brown algae and in the capsular DE material of certain strains of Pseudomonas and Azotobacter, in which DE it provides a protective barrier against host immune defenses and DE antibiotics. SY Alginate anabolism; Alginate formation; Alginate synthesis; SY Alginic acid anabolism; Alginic acid biosynthesis; SY Alginic acid formation; Alginic acid synthesis. GO GO:0042121; alginic acid biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Alginate biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Alkaloid metabolism. AC KW-0017 DE Protein involved in a biochemical reaction with alkaloids, a group of DE nitrogenous organic molecules (mostly heterocyclic) usually found in DE plants. Various alkaloids have toxic or medical properties, such as DE caffeine, morphine and nicotine. SY Alkaloid metabolic process. GO GO:0009820; alkaloid metabolic process HI Biological process: Alkaloid metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Alkylphosphonate uptake. AC KW-0019 DE Protein involved in alkylphosphonate uptake. Certain bacteria such as DE Escherichia coli can use alkylphosphonates as a phosphorus source. GO GO:0015716; organic phosphonate transport HI Biological process: Alkylphosphonate uptake. CA Biological process. // ID Allergen. AC KW-0020 DE Protein that stimulates the production of, and reacts with, antibodies DE (IgE) thus creating an allergic reaction (immediate-type DE hypersensitivity). Examples are pollen allergens from plants, venom DE allergens from insects, dust-mite allergens, and animal hair DE allergens. HI Disease: Allergen. CA Disease. // ID Allosteric enzyme. AC KW-0021 DE Enzyme whose activity is modified by the noncovalent binding of an DE allosteric effector at a site other than the active site. This binding DE mediates conformational changes, altering its catalytic or binding DE properties. GO GO:0003824; catalytic activity GO GO:0008152; metabolic process HI Molecular function: Allosteric enzyme. CA Molecular function. // ID Alpha-amylase inhibitor. AC KW-0022 DE Protein that inhibits alpha-amylase, an enzyme that catalyzes the DE endohydrolysis of 1,4-alpha-glucosidic linkages in oligosaccharides DE and polysaccharides. GO GO:0015066; alpha-amylase inhibitor activity HI Molecular function: Alpha-amylase inhibitor. CA Molecular function. // ID Alport syndrome. AC KW-0023 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Alport syndrome, an hereditary DE disorder characterized by a progressive glomerulonephritis leading to DE end-stage renal disease, often associated with sensorineural hearing DE loss and ocular abnormalities. HI Disease: Alport syndrome. CA Disease. // ID Alternative initiation. AC KW-0024 DE Protein for which at least two isoforms exist due to the usage of DE alternative initiation codons in the same mRNA (the resulting isoforms DE differ in their N-terminus if they are in frame). HI Coding sequence diversity: Alternative initiation. CA Coding sequence diversity. // ID Alternative promoter usage. AC KW-0877 DE Protein for which at least two isoforms exist due to the alternative DE usage of promoters. HI Coding sequence diversity: Alternative promoter usage. CA Coding sequence diversity. // ID Alternative splicing. AC KW-0025 DE Protein for which at least two isoforms exist due to distinct pre-mRNA DE splicing events. HI Coding sequence diversity: Alternative splicing. CA Coding sequence diversity. // ID Alzheimer disease. AC KW-0026 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Alzheimer disease, a DE neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive dementia and DE global loss of cognitive abilities. The condition primarily occurs DE after age 60, and is marked pathologically by severe cortical atrophy, DE senile plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and neuropil threads. Early- DE onset forms also occurr. SY Alzheimer's disease. HI Disease: Alzheimer disease. CA Disease. // ID Amelogenesis imperfecta. AC KW-0986 DE Protein which, if defective, causes amelogenesis imperfecta, a DE clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of disorders affecting DE the dental enamel. The enamel may be hypoplastic, hypomineralized or DE both, and affected teeth may be discoloured, sensitive or prone to DE disintegration either pre-eruption or post-eruption. In the DE hypoplastic type of amelogenesis imperfecta, the enamel is of normal DE hardness but does not develop to normal thickness. In the DE hypomineralized type, the enamel is of normal thickness but opaque or DE yellowish white without lustre on newly erupted teeth; it is so soft DE that it is lost soon after eruption. Amelogenesis imperfecta DE occasionally occurs in conjunction with other dental, oral and extra- DE oral features. HI Disease: Amelogenesis imperfecta. CA Disease. // ID Amidation. AC KW-0027 DE Peptide which is posttranslationally modified by C-terminal amidation. DE The amino acid to be modified is almost always followed by a glycine, DE which provides the amide group. In a first reaction step the glycine DE is oxidized to form alpha-hydroxy-glycine. The oxidized glycine DE cleaves into the C-terminally amidated peptide and an N-glyoxylated DE peptide. C-terminal amidation is essential to the biological activity DE of many neuropeptides and hormones. In a few cases alpha-oxidative DE cleavage of an amino acid other than glycine has been observed. All DE such cases are additionally annotated with the word "atypical" in the DE feature description. SY Amidated. HI PTM: Amidation. CA PTM. // ID Amino-acid biosynthesis. AC KW-0028 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of naturally-occuring amino acids. DE In addition to their use for protein biosynthesis, they are the DE precursors of many molecules such as purines, pyrimidines, histamines, DE adrenaline and melanin. SY Amino-acid anabolism; Amino-acid formation; Amino-acid synthesis. GO GO:0008652; amino acid biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Amino-acid biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Amino-acid transport. AC KW-0029 DE Protein involved in the transport of amino acids. SY Amino acid transport. GO GO:0006865; amino acid transport HI Biological process: Transport; Amino-acid transport. CA Biological process. // ID Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase. AC KW-0030 DE Enzyme that activates an amino acid for translation by forming an DE aminoacyladenylate intermediate and then links this activated amino DE acid to the corresponding tRNA molecule (amino acid-tRNA, aminoacyl- DE tRNA). In general, a specific aminoacyl-tRNA synthase is available for DE each amino acid. SY Amino acid translase; Aminoacyl-tRNA ligase; Aminoacyl-tRNA synthase. GO GO:0004812; aminoacyl-tRNA ligase activity HI Molecular function: Ligase; Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase. CA Molecular function. // ID Aminopeptidase. AC KW-0031 DE Enzyme that catalyzes the removal of amino acids from the N-terminus DE of peptides and proteins. GO GO:0004177; aminopeptidase activity HI Molecular function: Hydrolase; Protease; Aminopeptidase. CA Molecular function. // ID Aminotransferase. AC KW-0032 DE Enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of an alpha-amino group from an DE amino acid to an alpha-keto acid. The amino group is usually DE covalently bound by the prosthetic group pyridoxal phosphate. SY Transaminase. GO GO:0008483; transaminase activity HI Molecular function: Transferase; Aminotransferase. CA Molecular function. // ID Ammonia transport. AC KW-0924 DE Protein involved in the transport of ammonia/ammonium. Ammonia is an DE excellent nitrogen source for many bacteria, fungi, and plants, but it DE can be cytotoxic, especially for animal cells at high concentration. DE Its transport across cellular membranes is thus of high biological DE relevance. Ammonia (NH3) is a weak base and exists predominantly as DE the ammonium ion (NH4+) in biological fluids. SY Ammonium transport. GO GO:0072488; ammonium transmembrane transport HI Biological process: Transport; Ammonia transport. CA Biological process. // ID Amphibian defense peptide. AC KW-0878 DE Protein specifically found in the skin of animals belonging to the DE vertebrate class amphibia, that includes frogs, toads, newts, DE salamanders and worm-like apoda. The skins of anuran amphibians, in DE addition to mucous glands, contain highly specialized poison glands, DE which, in reaction to stress or attack, exude a complex noxious DE species-specific cocktail of biologically active molecules. These DE secretions often contain a plethora of peptides such as neuropeptides DE and hormones. The frog dermatous glands also synthesize and store an DE extraordinarily rich variety of wide-spectrum antimicrobial peptides DE that are released onto the outer layer of the skin to provide an DE effective and fast-acting defense against harmful microorganisms. GO GO:0006952; defense response HI Molecular function: Amphibian defense peptide. CA Molecular function. // ID Amyloid. AC KW-0034 DE Proteins which may form wide, insoluble, unbranched filaments DE possessing a cross-beta sheet quaternary structure, where the beta DE sheets are oriented perpendicular to the fibre axis. Amyloid fibrils DE may be involved in abnormal protein depositions, or amyloidosis, such DE as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's diseases. Functional amyloids, found in DE a wide range of organism, from bacteria to mammals are involved in DE diverse functions such as biofilm formation, formation of aerial DE hyphae, long-term memory or regulation of melanin biosynthesis. SY Amyloid fibre-forming; Amyloid fibril-forming; SY Amyloid filament-forming; Amyloid-forming; Amyloid-like fibre-forming; SY Amyloid-like fibril-forming; Amyloid-like filament-forming; SY Functional amyloid. HI Cellular component: Amyloid. CA Cellular component. // ID Amyloidosis. AC KW-1008 DE Protein which, if defective, causes amyloidosis, a vast group of DE diseases defined by the accumulation of amyloid in tissues. DE Amyloidoses are classified according to clinical signs, biochemical DE type of amyloid protein involved, and the extent of amyloid deposition DE (generalized or localized). Most amyloidoses are multisystemic DE diseases affecting several organs or systems. Mainly affected organs DE are the kidneys, heart, gastrointestinal tract, liver, skin, DE peripheral nerves and eyes, but any organ can be affected. The most DE frequent forms are primary amyloidosis, also known as light-chain DE immunoglobulin amyloidosis (AL), reactive or inflammatory amyloidosis, DE also known as acquired amyloidosis (AA), and transthyretin amyloidosis DE (ATTR). Localized amyloidosis affecting the brain is characteristic of DE Alzheimer's disease, trisomy 21, and prion diseases (transmissible DE spongiform encephalitis, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Gerstmann- DE Straussler-Scheinker syndrome, fatal familial insomnia). In prion DE diseases the amyloid precursor is the prion protein. HI Disease: Amyloidosis. CA Disease. // ID Amyloplast. AC KW-0035 DE Protein found in the amyloplast, a colorless plant plastid that forms DE and stores starch. Amyloplasts are found in many tissues, particularly DE in storage tissues. GO GO:0009501; amyloplast HI Cellular component: Plastid; Amyloplast. CA Cellular component. // ID Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. AC KW-0036 DE Protein which, if defective, causes amyotrophic lateral sclerosis DE (ALS), a degenerative disorder of motor neurons in the cortex, brain DE stem and spinal cord. ALS is characterized by muscular weakness and DE atrophy. SY ALS. HI Disease: Neurodegeneration; Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. CA Disease. // ID Angiogenesis. AC KW-0037 DE Protein involved in angiogenesis, the sprouting or splitting of DE capillaries from pre-existing vasculature. Angiogenesis plays an DE important role for example during embryonic development, normal growth DE of tissues and maintenance of the normal vasculature, wound healing, DE tumor growth and metastasis. SY Vascularization. GO GO:0001525; angiogenesis HI Biological process: Angiogenesis. CA Biological process. // ID Anion exchange. AC KW-0039 DE Protein involved in the exchange of anions across a membrane. Anion DE exchange is a cellular transport function which contributes to the DE regulation of cell pH and volume by a functionally related anion DE exchanger protein family. SY Anion exchanger activity. GO GO:0015297; antiporter activity HI Biological process: Transport; Ion transport; Anion exchange. CA Biological process. // ID ANK repeat. AC KW-0040 DE Protein containing at least one ANK repeat, a conserved domain of DE approximately 33 amino acids, that was originally identified in DE ankyrin. It has been described as an L-shaped structure consisting of DE a beta-hairpin and two alpha-helices. Many ankyrin repeat regions are DE known to function as protein-protein interaction domains. SY ANK motif; Ankyrin repeat. HI Domain: ANK repeat. CA Domain. // ID Annexin. AC KW-0041 DE Protein containing at least one annexin repeat, a conserved domain of DE 61 residues, which is present in proteins of the annexin family in DE either four or eight copies. The annexin calcium binding sites are DE found within the repeated domains. SY Annexin repeat. HI Domain: Annexin. CA Domain. // ID Antenna complex. AC KW-0042 DE Component of an antenna complex or protein regulating the expression DE of such components. Antenna complexes are light-harvesting systems DE (LHC) which are protein-pigment complexes in or on photosynthetic DE membranes. LHCs receive radiant energy and transfer it to the reaction DE centers; an array of LHCs is often referred to as an "antenna". LHCs DE typically include one or more associated pigments (phycobilins, DE chlorophylls, bacteriochlorophylls and carotenoids). SY Light-harvesting antenna; Light-harvesting complex. GO GO:0030076; light-harvesting complex HI Cellular component: Antenna complex. CA Cellular component. // ID Antibiotic. AC KW-0044 DE Protein with antibacterial activity. SY Antibacterial; Bactericide. GO GO:0042742; defense response to bacterium HI Molecular function: Antimicrobial; Antibiotic. CA Molecular function. // ID Antibiotic biosynthesis. AC KW-0045 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of antibiotics. Antibiotics are DE organic compounds produced by living organims that can selectively DE inhibit the growth of, or kill bacteria. SY Antibiotic anabolism; Antibiotic formation; Antibiotic synthesis. GO GO:0017000; antibiotic biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Antibiotic biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Antibiotic resistance. AC KW-0046 DE Protein that confers, on bacteria, the ability to withstand DE antibiotics. The resistance is often due either to mutations that DE prevent antibiotic binding to the protein or to amplification of the DE gene encoding the protein. SY Resistance to antibiotic. GO GO:0046677; response to antibiotic HI Biological process: Antibiotic resistance. CA Biological process. // ID Antifreeze protein. AC KW-0047 DE Protein that lowers the freezing point of blood or other biological DE fluids by inhibiting the formation of water ice crystals. SY AFP; Ice structuring protein; ISP. HI Molecular function: Antifreeze protein. CA Molecular function. // ID Antimicrobial. AC KW-0929 DE Protein which has deleterious effects on any type of microbe. Microbe DE is a general term for microscopic unicellular organisms, such as DE bacteria, archaea, fungi and protista. While the term microbe is often DE also used for viruses, we do not apply the keyword antimicrobial to DE antiviral proteins. HI Molecular function: Antimicrobial. CA Molecular function. // ID Antioxidant. AC KW-0049 DE Protein capable of counteracting the damaging effects of oxidation, DE e.g. by trapping free radicals generated during the metabolic burst DE and possibly inhibiting ageing. Scavengers of highly reactive and DE harmful oxygen species. GO GO:0016209; antioxidant activity HI Molecular function: Antioxidant. CA Molecular function. // ID Antiport. AC KW-0050 DE Protein involved in the transport of a solute across a biological DE membrane coupled, directly, to the transport of a different solute in DE the opposite direction. SY Antiporter; Countertransporter; Exchanger; Exchange transporter. GO GO:0015297; antiporter activity HI Biological process: Transport; Antiport. CA Biological process. // ID Antiviral defense. AC KW-0051 DE Protein synthesized or activated in the cell in response to viral DE infection, or protein with specific antiviral activity within the DE cell. Eukaryotic cells have an innate immune mechanism to fight viral DE infection, which is activated through the interferon signaling pathway DE or through dsRNA detection in the cytoplasm. It leads to the DE establishment of an antiviral cell state, which prevents virus DE replication or induces apoptosis. Most viruses have developed specific DE proteins to prevent the establishment of an antiviral state. About DE half of all bacteria and most archaea have a CRISPR (clustered DE regularly interspersed short plaindromic repeats) system of adaptive DE immunity to exogenous DNA. CRISPRs clusters are tandem arrays of DE alternating repeats and spacers, where the spacers in some cases are DE homologous to sequences from virus and plasmid genomes. The CRISPR DE arrays are transcribed, processed and in some way aid in detection and DE resistance to foreign DNA. In at least a few bacteria (E.coli, DE S.epidermidis) it seems DNA is the target, whereas in Pyrococcus DE furiosis it seems the CRISPR system targets RNA. GO GO:0051607; defense response to virus HI Biological process: Antiviral defense. CA Biological process. // ID Antiviral protein. AC KW-0930 DE Protein with antiviral activity. Often this activity is fortuitous DE (e.g. a bacterial protein displaying anti-HIV activity). GO GO:0050688; regulation of defense response to virus HI Molecular function: Antiviral protein. CA Molecular function. // ID Aortic aneurysm. AC KW-0993 DE Protein which, if defective, causes aortic aneurysm. Aortic aneurysm DE is the dilation of the wall of the aorta. It forms a sac that is DE filled with fluid or clotted blood, often resulting in a pulsating DE tumor. Aortic aneurysms are classified by their location on the aorta. HI Disease: Aortic aneurysm. CA Disease. // ID Apicoplast. AC KW-0933 DE Protein encoded by the apicoplast genome or protein located in the DE apicoplast, a plastid found in some apicomplexan parasites which is a DE non-photosynthetic plastid relict. This organelle contains ring-like DE DNA of about 35 Kb as a third type of cell genome. Apicoplasts do not DE contain thylakoids; it is not yet clear if they contain internal DE membranes. SY Golgi-adjunct organelle; Thick-walled organelle. GO GO:0020011; apicoplast HI Cellular component: Plastid; Apicoplast. CA Cellular component. // ID Apoplast. AC KW-0052 DE Protein which is found in the part of the plant which is external to DE the living protoplast, ie the cell wall, the intercellular space and DE the lumina of dead cells such as xylem vessels and tracheids. GO GO:0048046; apoplast HI Cellular component: Apoplast. CA Cellular component. // ID Apoptosis. AC KW-0053 DE Protein involved in apoptotic programmed cell death. Apoptosis is DE characterized by cell morphological changes, including blebbing, cell DE shrinkage, nuclear fragmentation, chromatin condensation and DE chromosomal DNA fragmentation, and eventually death. Unlike necrosis, DE apoptosis produces cell fragments, called apoptotic bodies, that DE phagocytic cells are able to engulf and quickly remove before the DE contents of the cell can spill out onto surrounding cells and cause DE damage. In general, apoptosis confers advantages during an organism's DE life cycle. SY Active cell death; Apoptotic programmed cell death; SY Type I programmed cell death. GO GO:0006915; apoptotic process HI Biological process: Apoptosis. CA Biological process. // ID Arabinose catabolism. AC KW-0054 DE Protein involved in arabinose breakdown. Arabinose is a 5-carbon DE aldose sugar found in plant gums, pectins and bacterial cell wall DE polysaccharides. SY Arabinose breakdown; Arabinose catabolic process; SY Arabinose degradation. GO GO:0019568; arabinose catabolic process HI Biological process: Carbohydrate metabolism; Arabinose catabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Archaeal flagellum. AC KW-0974 DE The archaellum (archaeal flagellum) is the motility apparatus of DE archaea which propels the cell through liquid medium. The archaellum DE is the functional equivalent of the bacterial flagellum but its DE architecture, composition and mode of assembly is completely DE unrelated. The archaellum is thinner (10-15 nm) compared to the DE bacterial flagellum (18-24 nm). Its filament is assembled from DE archaellin subunits, which are N-glycosylated proteins. The archaellum DE is considered to be a type IV pilus-like structure and accordingly is DE assembled from the base into a 3-start helix. Archaellins have a type DE III signal sequence which is removed by the pre-archaellin peptidase. DE Core components of the assembly machinery are ArlI and ArlJ DE (previously FlaI, FlaJ) which are distantly related to PilB and PilC DE from type II secretion systems and type IV pills assembly systems. DE ArlI is a dual function ATPase which first assembles the filament and DE then rotates it by using the energy from ATP hydrolysis. Ion gradients DE are not used for archaellum rotation. SY Archaeal flagella; Archaeal flagellar apparatus; Archaellum. GO GO:0097589; archaeal-type flagellum HI Cellular component: Archaeal flagellum. CA Cellular component. // ID Archaeal flagellum biogenesis. AC KW-1209 DE Protein which is involved in the formation, organization or DE maintenance of the archaellum (archaeal flagellum) the motility DE apparatus of archaea which propels the cell through liquid medium. The DE archaellum is the functional equivalent of the bacterial flagellum but DE its architecture, composition and mode of assembly is completely DE unrelated. The archaellum is thinner (10-15 nm) compared to the DE bacterial flagellum (18-24 nm). Its filament is assembled from DE archaellin subunits (archaeal flagellin), N-glycosylated proteins. The DE archaellum is considered to be a type IV pilus-like structure and DE accordingly is assembled from the base into a 3-start helix. DE Archaellins have a type III signal sequence which is removed by the DE pre-archaellin peptidase. Core components of the assembly machinery DE are ArlI and ArlJ (previously FlaI, FlaJ) which are distantly related DE to PilB and PilC from type II secretion systems and type IV pills DE assembly systems. ArlI is a dual function ATPase which first assembles DE the filament and then rotates it by using the energy from ATP DE hydrolysis. SY Archaeal flagella biogenesis; Archaeal flagellar apparatus biogenesis. HI Biological process: Archaeal flagellum biogenesis. CA Biological process. // ID Arginine biosynthesis. AC KW-0055 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of the basic amino acid arginine DE (Arg). SY Arginine anabolism; Arginine biosynthetic process; Arginine formation; SY Arginine synthesis. GO GO:0006526; arginine biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Amino-acid biosynthesis; Arginine biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Arginine metabolism. AC KW-0056 DE Protein involved in biochemical reactions with the basic amino acid DE arginine (Arg). SY Arginine metabolic process. GO GO:0006525; arginine metabolic process HI Biological process: Arginine metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Aromatic amino acid biosynthesis. AC KW-0057 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of an amino acid with an aromatic DE side-chain: phenylalanine (Phe), tyrosine (Tyr) and tryptophan (Trp). SY Aromatic amino acid anabolism; SY Aromatic amino acid family biosynthetic process; SY Aromatic amino acid formation; Aromatic amino acid synthesis. GO GO:0009073; aromatic amino acid family biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Amino-acid biosynthesis; Aromatic amino acid biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Aromatic hydrocarbons catabolism. AC KW-0058 DE Protein involved in the breakdown of aromatic hydrocarbons. Aromatic DE hydrocarbons are compounds which only contain carbon and hydrogen, DE examples include the common pollutants benzene and naphthalene. SY Aromatic compound catabolic process; Aromatic hydrocarbons breakdown; SY Aromatic hydrocarbons degradation. GO GO:0019439; aromatic compound catabolic process HI Biological process: Aromatic hydrocarbons catabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Arsenical resistance. AC KW-0059 DE Protein that confers, on bacteria and other microorganisms, the DE ability to withstand aromatic compounds of arsenic. SY Arsenic resistance; Resistance to arsenic. GO GO:0046685; response to arsenic-containing substance HI Biological process: Arsenical resistance. CA Biological process. // ID Ascorbate biosynthesis. AC KW-0060 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of ascorbate, the ionized form of DE ascorbic acid (vitamin C). Ascorbic acid is derived from glucose via DE the uronic acid pathway. This water-soluble vitamin is essential for DE the synthesis of bone, cartilage and dentine. It is required in the DE diet of primates and some other species that cannot synthesize L- DE ascorbic acid because of their deficiency in L-gulono-gamma-lactone DE oxidase, a key enzyme for the biosynthesis of this vitamin. SY Ascorbate anabolism; Ascorbate biosynthetic process; SY Ascorbate formation; Ascorbate synthesis; Ascorbic acid anabolism; SY Ascorbic acid biosynthesis; Ascorbic acid biosynthetic process; SY Ascorbic acid formation; Ascorbic acid synthesis; Vitamin C anabolism; SY Vitamin C biosynthesis; Vitamin C biosynthetic process; SY Vitamin C formation; Vitamin C synthesis. GO GO:0019853; L-ascorbic acid biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Ascorbate biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Asparagine biosynthesis. AC KW-0061 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of the polar amino acid asparagine DE (Asn). SY Asparagine anabolism; Asparagine biosynthetic process; SY Asparagine formation; Asparagine synthesis. GO GO:0006529; asparagine biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Amino-acid biosynthesis; Asparagine biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Aspartic protease inhibitor. AC KW-0062 DE Protein which inhibits the catalytic activity of an aspartyl protease, DE a class of proteases that contains an active site aspartate residue DE (Asp), e.g. pepsin, HIV retropepsin, renin, etc. SY Aspartic proteinase inhibitor; Aspartic-type endopeptidase inhibitor; SY Aspartyl protease inhibitor. GO GO:0019828; aspartic-type endopeptidase inhibitor activity HI Molecular function: Protease inhibitor; Aspartic protease inhibitor. CA Molecular function. // ID Aspartyl esterase. AC KW-0063 DE Enzyme which catalyzes the hydrolysis of esters and is characterized DE by a catalytically active aspartic acid residue in its active site. GO GO:0045330; aspartyl esterase activity HI Molecular function: Hydrolase; Aspartyl esterase. CA Molecular function. // ID Aspartyl protease. AC KW-0064 DE Proteolytic enzyme with an aspartate residue (Asp) in its active site. DE There are many families of aspartyl proteases. The most well known one DE is the pepsin family (A1 in MEROPS classification) which is known to DE exist in vertebrates, fungi, plants, retroviruses and some plant DE viruses. SY Acid protease; Aspartate protease; Aspartic protease; SY Aspartic proteinase; Aspartic-type endopeptidase; Aspartyl proteinase. GO GO:0004190; aspartic-type endopeptidase activity HI Molecular function: Hydrolase; Protease; Aspartyl protease. CA Molecular function. // ID Asperger syndrome. AC KW-1270 DE Protein which, if defective, is involved in Asperger syndrome, a DE complex, multifactorial disorder. It is characterized by clinically DE significant impairment of social interaction, and restricted DE repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior. Asperger syndrome is DE primarily distinguished from autism by the higher cognitive abilities DE and a more normal and timely development of language and communicative DE phrases. HI Disease: Autism spectrum disorder; Asperger syndrome. CA Disease. // ID Asthma. AC KW-1058 DE Protein which, if defective, is associated with asthma, a bronchial DE disorder associated with airway inflammation, swelling and DE obstruction. It is marked by recurrent attacks of paroxysmal dyspnea, DE with wheezing due to spasmodic contraction of the bronchi. HI Disease: Asthma. CA Disease. // ID Atherosclerosis. AC KW-0065 DE Protein which, if defective, causes atherosclerosis, which is DE characterized by deposits of plaques (atheromas) in the blood vessels, DE thus narrowing the vessel lumen and restricting blood flow. Atheromas DE consist of lipids (cholesterol), carbohydrates, blood products, DE fibrous tissue and calcium deposits. SY Arteriosclerosis. HI Disease: Atherosclerosis. CA Disease. // ID ATP synthesis. AC KW-0066 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP). DE ATP is a ribonucleotide adenosine (a purine base adenine linked to the DE sugar D-ribofuranose) which carries 3 phosphate groups esterified to DE the sugar moiety. It is the cell's source for energy and phosphate. SY Adenosine 5'-triphosphate anabolism; SY Adenosine 5'-triphosphate biosynthesis; SY Adenosine 5'-triphosphate biosynthetic process; SY Adenosine 5'-triphosphate formation; Adenosine triphosphate anabolism; SY Adenosine triphosphate biosynthesis; SY Adenosine triphosphate biosynthetic process; SY Adenosine triphosphate formation; ATP anabolism; ATP biosynthesis; SY ATP biosynthetic process; ATP formation. GO GO:0006754; ATP biosynthetic process HI Biological process: ATP synthesis. CA Biological process. // ID ATP-binding. AC KW-0067 DE Protein which binds adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP), a ribonucleotide DE adenosine (a purine base adenine linked to the sugar D-ribofuranose) DE that carries three phosphate groups esterified to the sugar moiety. It DE is the cell's source for energy and phosphate. SY Adenosine 5'-triphosphate binding; Adenosine triphosphate binding. GO GO:0005524; ATP binding HI Ligand: Nucleotide-binding; ATP-binding. CA Ligand. // ID Atrial fibrillation. AC KW-1020 DE Protein which, if defective, causes atrial fibrillation, a common DE cardiac arrhythmia marked by disorganized atrial electrical activity DE and rapid randomized contractions of small areas of the atrial DE myocardium, causing a totally irregular, and rapid, ventricular rate. SY AF; ATFB. HI Disease: Atrial fibrillation. CA Disease. // ID Atrial septal defect. AC KW-0976 DE Protein which, if defective, causes atrial septal defect, a congenital DE cardiac anomaly characterized by persistent patency of the atrial DE septum that results in blood flow between the atria. It is due to DE failure of fusion between either the septum secundum or the septum DE primum and the endocardial cushions. SY Atrioseptal defect. HI Disease: Atrial septal defect. CA Disease. // ID Autism. AC KW-1269 DE Protein which, if defective, is involved in autism, a pervasive DE developmental disorder. It is a complex, multifactorial disease DE characterized by impairments in reciprocal social interaction and DE communication, restricted and stereotyped patterns of interests and DE activities, and the presence of developmental abnormalities by 3 years DE of age. Most individuals with autism manifest moderate mental DE retardation. SY Autistic disorder. HI Disease: Autism spectrum disorder; Autism. CA Disease. // ID Autism spectrum disorder. AC KW-1268 DE Protein which, if defective, is involved in autism spectrum disorder, DE a clinically heterogeneous group of disorders that share common DE features of impaired social relationships, impaired language and DE communication, repetitive behaviors, and a restricted range of DE interests. The spectrum includes diverse phenotypic manifestations, DE such as classic autism, Asperger syndrome, childhood disintegrative DE disorder, Rett syndrome, and pervasive developmental disorder not DE otherwise specified. SY ASD. HI Disease: Autism spectrum disorder. CA Disease. // ID Autocatalytic cleavage. AC KW-0068 DE Protein catalyzing its own cleavage. SY Autocatalytic peptide cleavage. HI PTM: Autocatalytic cleavage. CA PTM. // ID Autoimmune encephalomyelitis. AC KW-0069 DE Protein which, if defective, causes autoimmune encephalomyelitis. This DE form of autoimmune inflammation of the brain and spinal cord causes DE demyelination. SY Autoimmune encephalitis. HI Disease: Autoimmune encephalomyelitis. CA Disease. // ID Autoimmune uveitis. AC KW-0070 DE Protein which, if defective, causes autoimmune inflammation of the DE uvea, which is the vascular middle coat of the eye, comprising the DE iris, ciliary body and choroid. HI Biological process: Sensory transduction; Vision; Autoimmune uveitis. HI Disease: Autoimmune uveitis. CA Disease. // ID Autoinducer synthesis. AC KW-0071 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of an autoinducer, a molecule which DE triggers the regulators of biosynthetic genes. SY Autoinducer anabolism; Autoinducer biosynthesis; SY Autoinducer biosynthetic process; Autoinducer formation. HI Biological process: Autoinducer synthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Autophagy. AC KW-0072 DE Protein participating in autophagy, a process of intracellular bulk DE degradation in which cytoplasmic components including organelles are DE sequestered within double-membrane vesicles that deliver the contents DE to the lysosome/vacuole for degradation. There are three primary forms DE of autophagy: chaperone-mediated autophagy, microautophagy and DE macroautophagy. During macroautophagy, the sequestering vesicles, DE termed autophagosomes, fuse with the lysosome or vacuole resulting in DE the delivery of an inner vesicle (autophagic body) into the lumen of DE the degradative compartment. GO GO:0006914; autophagy HI Biological process: Autophagy. CA Biological process. // ID Auxin biosynthesis. AC KW-0073 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of auxins. Auxins are plant hormones DE which play a role in many aspects of plant growth and development. SY Auxin anabolism; Auxin biosynthetic process; Auxin formation; SY Auxin synthesis. GO GO:0009851; auxin biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Auxin biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Auxin signaling pathway. AC KW-0927 DE Protein involved in the auxin signaling pathway (e.g. transport and DE signal transduction) that regulates many aspects of plant growth and DE development (e.g. caulogenesis, rhizogenesis, tropisms, nodulation). DE The major form of this phytohormone is indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) that DE can be synthesized both from tryptophan (Trp) using Trp-dependent DE pathways and from an indolic Trp precursor via Trp-independent DE pathways. Plants can also obtain IAA by b-oxidation of indole-3- DE butyric acid (IBA), a second endogenous auxin, or by hydrolysing IAA DE conjugates, in which IAA is linked to amino acids, sugars or peptides. SY Auxin mediated signaling pathway. GO GO:0009734; auxin-activated signaling pathway HI Biological process: Auxin signaling pathway. CA Biological process. // ID B-cell activation. AC KW-0075 DE Protein involved in the activation and proliferation of B-cells. B- DE cells are activated by the binding of antigen to receptors on its cell DE surface which causes the cell to divide and proliferate. Some DE stimulated B-cells become plasma cells, which secrete antibodies. DE Others become long-lived memory B-cells which can be stimulated at a DE later time to differentiate into plasma cells. GO GO:0042113; B cell activation HI Biological process: B-cell activation. CA Biological process. // ID Bacterial flagellum. AC KW-0975 DE Bacterial protein present in a flagellum, a long hair-like cell DE surface appendage. The flagellar apparatus consists of the flagellar DE filament made of polymerized flagellin, the hook-like structure near DE the cell surface and a system of rings embedded in the cell enveloppe DE (the basal body or flagellar motor). The basal body and the hook DE anchor the whip-like filament to the cell surface. The flagellum is a DE rotating structure with switches propels the cell through a liquid DE medium. SY Bacterial flagella; Bacterial flagellar apparatus. GO GO:0009288; bacterial-type flagellum HI Cellular component: Bacterial flagellum. CA Cellular component. // ID Bacterial flagellum biogenesis. AC KW-1005 DE Protein which is involved in the formation, organization or DE maintenance of the bacterial flagellum, a long hair-like cell surface DE appendage. The flagellar apparatus consists of the flagellar filament DE made of polymerized flagellin, the hook-like structure near the cell DE surface and a system of rings embedded in the cell enveloppe (the DE basal body or flagellar motor). The basal body and the hook anchor the DE whip-like filament to the cell surface. The flagellum is a rotating DE structure whose switches propels the cell through a liquid medium. SY Bacterial flagella biogenesis; SY Bacterial flagellar apparatus biogenesis. GO GO:0044781; bacterial-type flagellum organization HI Biological process: Bacterial flagellum biogenesis. CA Biological process. // ID Bacterial flagellum protein export. AC KW-1006 DE Protein which is involved in the export of bacterial flagellar DE proteins. The bacterial flagellum export apparatus consists of six DE integral membrane proteins (FlhA, FlhB, FliO, FliP, FliQ and FliR) and DE three soluble proteins (FliH, FliI and FliJ), and is located at the DE base of the flagellum. This system is characterized by ATP hydrolysis DE and a lack of substrate signal peptide cleavage. SY Bacterial flagella protein export; SY Bacterial flagellar apparatus protein export; SY Bacterial flagellar protein export. HI Biological process: Transport; Protein transport; Bacterial flagellum protein export. CA Biological process. // ID Bacterial host gene expression shutoff by virus. AC KW-1261 DE Viral protein which prevents host gene expression by blocking host DE transcription or inducing the degradation of the bacterial chromosome. DE This gives viral transcripts a competitive edge to use the hijacked DE host translation machinery. Preventing the expression of host proteins DE is also a strategy to counteract the antiviral response. HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Host gene expression shutoff by virus; Bacterial host gene expression shutoff by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Bacterial host transcription shutoff by virus. AC KW-1263 DE Viral protein involved in inhibiting transcription of bacterial genes DE to ensure the shutoff of host proteins expression and give viral DE transcripts a competitive edge for access to the cellular translation DE machinery. Preventing the expression of host proteins is also a DE strategy to counteract the antiviral response. Some bacterial viruses DE inhibit the host RNAP: bacteriophage SPO1 for example is known to shut DE off host RNA synthesis. HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Host gene expression shutoff by virus; Bacterial host gene expression shutoff by virus; Bacterial host transcription shutoff by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Bacterial microcompartment. AC KW-1283 DE Protein located in or on a bacterial microcompartment (BMC), DE proteinaceous polyhedral shells that encapsulate enzymes. The DE selectively permeable organelles protect their contents from the DE cytoplasm and/or the cytoplasm from reactants in their interior. DE Examples of BMCs include carboxysomes, which enhance autotrophic CO(2) DE fixation by encapsulating RuBisCO and carbonic anhydrase, as well as DE BMCs involved in ethanolamine or propanediol degradation; both DE pathways make toxic intermediates. Artifical BMCs can be expressed and DE filled with cargo proteins for biotechnological uses. BMCs are found DE in many bacterial phyla; in most cases their cargo is unknown. GO GO:0031469; bacterial microcompartment HI Cellular component: Bacterial microcompartment. CA Cellular component. // ID Bacteriochlorophyll. AC KW-0076 DE Protein interacting with bacteriochlorophyll, a photosynthetic pigment DE found in non-oxygenic photosynthetic bacteria. It is a magnesium- DE porphyrin complex esterified to a long hydrophobic terpenoid side DE chain (the alcohol phytol). It differs from chlorophyll of oxygenic DE organisms in the substituents around the tetrapyrrole nucleus of the DE molecule, and in the absorption spectra. Different bacteria have DE different species of bacteriochlorophyll. GO GO:0042314; bacteriochlorophyll binding HI Ligand: Chromophore; Chlorophyll; Bacteriochlorophyll. CA Ligand. // ID Bacteriochlorophyll biosynthesis. AC KW-0077 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of bacteriochlorophylls. These DE photosynthetic pigments are magnesium-porphyrin complexes with a long DE hydrophobic terpenoid side chain (the alcohol phytol). Biosynthesis of DE bacteriochlorophyll is a light-independent reaction. SY Bacteriochlorophyll anabolism; SY Bacteriochlorophyll biosynthetic process; SY Bacteriochlorophyll formation; Bacteriochlorophyll synthesis. GO GO:0030494; bacteriochlorophyll biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Chlorophyll biosynthesis; Bacteriochlorophyll biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Bacteriocin. AC KW-0078 DE Peptidic antibiotic, often plasmid encoded, produced by specific DE strains of bacteria that is lethal against other strains of the same DE or related species. E.g. bacteriocin, colicin, lantibiotic. GO GO:0031640; killing of cells of another organism HI Molecular function: Antimicrobial; Antibiotic; Bacteriocin. CA Molecular function. // ID Bacteriocin biosynthesis. AC KW-0871 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of a bacteriocin. SY Bacteriocin anabolism; Bacteriocin biosynthetic process; SY Bacteriocin formation; Bacteriocin synthesis. GO GO:0030152; bacteriocin biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Antibiotic biosynthesis; Bacteriocin biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Bacteriocin immunity. AC KW-0079 DE Protein that confers to a bacteria immunity against a specific DE bacteriocin that it synthesizes. GO GO:0030153; bacteriocin immunity HI Biological process: Bacteriocin immunity. CA Biological process. // ID Bacteriocin transport. AC KW-0080 DE Protein involved in the export of a bacteriocin (bacterial DE antibiotic). GO GO:0043213; bacteriocin transport HI Biological process: Transport; Protein transport; Bacteriocin transport. CA Biological process. // ID Bacteriolytic enzyme. AC KW-0081 DE Enzyme, e.g. lysozyme or endopeptidase, essential for lysis of DE bacterial cell walls. GO GO:0003824; catalytic activity GO GO:0008152; metabolic process GO GO:0031640; killing of cells of another organism GO GO:0042742; defense response to bacterium HI Molecular function: Antimicrobial; Bacteriolytic enzyme. CA Molecular function. // ID Bait region. AC KW-0082 DE Protein having a peptide stretch which contains specific cleavage DE sites for different proteinases, and which enables inhibition of all DE four classes of proteinases. GO GO:0010466; negative regulation of peptidase activity GO GO:0030414; peptidase inhibitor activity HI Domain: Bait region. CA Domain. // ID Bardet-Biedl syndrome. AC KW-0083 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS), a DE genetically heterogeneous, autosomal recessive disorder. It is DE characterized by pigmentary retinopathy, obesity, polydactyly, DE hypogenitalism, renal malformation and intellectual disability. DE Secondary features include diabetes mellitus, hypertension and DE congenital heart disease. SY BBS. HI Disease: Ciliopathy; Bardet-Biedl syndrome. CA Disease. // ID Bartter syndrome. AC KW-0910 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Bartter syndrome (BS). In general, DE Bartter syndrome refers to a group of autosomal recessive disorders DE characterized by often severe intravascular volume depletion due to DE renal salt-wasting associated with low blood pressure, hypokalemic DE alkalosis, hypercalciuria, and normal serum magnesium levels. Patients DE with Bartter syndrome are often critically ill from birth onwards, and DE their long-term clinical course may be complicated by DE nephrocalcinosis, leading to renal failure. Clinical disease results DE from defective renal reabsorption of sodium chloride in the thick DE ascending limb (TAL) of the Henle loop, where only 30% of filtered DE salt is normally reabsorbed. HI Disease: Bartter syndrome. CA Disease. // ID Basement membrane. AC KW-0084 DE Protein which is a component of the basement membrane, an DE extracellular matrix found under epithelial cells and around smooth DE and striated muscle cells. This matrix contains intrinsic DE macromolecular components such as collagen, laminin, and sulfated DE proteoglycans. GO GO:0005604; basement membrane HI Cellular component: Secreted; Extracellular matrix; Basement membrane. CA Cellular component. // ID Behavior. AC KW-0085 DE Protein which affects the behavior, the action or reaction, of an DE organism to a stimulus or situation. GO GO:0007610; behavior HI Biological process: Behavior. CA Biological process. // ID Bence-Jones protein. AC KW-0086 DE Protein which is a dimer of immunoglobulin light chains synthesized in DE large amounts by patients who have myeloma or bone marrow tumor. DE Bence-Jones protein is sufficiently small to be excreted by the kidney DE into urine. HI Molecular function: Bence-Jones protein. CA Molecular function. // ID Bernard Soulier syndrome. AC KW-0087 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Bernard Soulier syndrome (BSS), a DE familial coagulation disorder characterized by a prolonged bleeding DE time, unusually large platelets, and impaired prothrombin consumption. DE BSS is caused by a genetic deficiency in platelet membrane DE glycoprotein Ib alpha chain and platelet glycoprotein IX, where DE platelets aggregate normally but do not stick to collagen of the sub- DE endothelial membrane. SY BSS. HI Disease: Bernard Soulier syndrome. CA Disease. // ID Bile acid catabolism. AC KW-0088 DE Protein involved in degradation of bile acids. Bile acids, which exist DE mainly as bile salts, are a family of carboxylic acid derivatives of DE cholesterol which play an important role in the digestion and DE absorption of fat. They are made in the liver, stored in the DE gallblader, and secreted as needed into the intestines. SY Bile acid breakdown; Bile acid catabolic process; SY Bile acid degradation; Bile salt breakdown; SY Bile salt catabolic process; Bile salt catabolism; SY Bile salt degradation. GO GO:0030573; bile acid catabolic process HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Lipid degradation; Bile acid catabolism. HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Steroid metabolism; Bile acid catabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Bile pigment. AC KW-0089 DE Protein binding covalently at least one linear tetrapyrrole DE chromophore, e.g. bilirubin, biliverdin, bilifuscin, biliprasin, DE choleprasin, bilihumin, and bilicyanin. Bile pigments are produced by DE breaking down protoporphyrin IX derived from hemoglobin and other heme DE proteins. SY Bilin chromophore. HI Ligand: Chromophore; Bile pigment. CA Ligand. // IC Biological process. AC KW-9999 DE Keywords assigned to proteins because they are involved in a DE particular biological process. // ID Biological rhythms. AC KW-0090 DE Protein involved in the generation of rhythmic pattern of behaviors or DE activities, e.g. circadian rhythm which is a metabolic or behavioural DE rhythm within a cycle of 24 hours. SY Rhythmic process. GO GO:0048511; rhythmic process HI Biological process: Biological rhythms. CA Biological process. // ID Biomineralization. AC KW-0091 DE Protein involved in the process by which mineral crystals are DE deposited in an organized fashion in the matrix (either cellular or DE extracellular) of living organisms. Such process give rise to DE inorganic-based structures such as bone, tooth, ivory, shells, DE cuticles, corals or bacterial magnetosomes. GO GO:0031214; biomineral tissue development HI Biological process: Biomineralization. CA Biological process. // ID Biotin. AC KW-0092 DE Protein which contains at least one biotin as prosthetic group or DE cofactor (e.g. some carboxylases and decarboxylases, and biotin DE carboxyl carrier protein) or which binds biotin, like avidin. Biotin DE is a water-soluble vitamin (member of the B complex vitamins) DE essential for fatty acid biosynthesis, catabolism, and it acts as a DE growth factor for many cells. SY Biopeiderm; Coenzyme R; Vitamin B7; Vitamin B8; Vitamin H. HI Ligand: Biotin. CA Ligand. // ID Biotin biosynthesis. AC KW-0093 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of biotin, a prosthetic group for DE some carboxylase and decarboxylase enzymes. This water-soluble vitamin DE is essential for fatty acid biosynthesis, catabolism, and it acts as a DE growth factor for many cells. SY Biopeiderm anabolism; Biopeiderm biosynthesis; SY Biopeiderm biosynthetic process; Biopeiderm formation; SY Biopeiderm synthesis; Biotin anabolism; Biotin biosynthetic process; SY Biotin formation; Biotin synthesis; Coenzyme R anabolism; SY Coenzyme R biosynthesis; Coenzyme R biosynthetic process; SY Coenzyme R formation; Coenzyme R synthesis; Vitamin B7 anabolism; SY Vitamin B7 biosynthetic process; Vitamin B7 formation; SY Vitamin B7 synthesis; Vitamin B8 anabolism; SY Vitamin B8 biosynthetic process; Vitamin B8 formation; SY Vitamin B8 synthesis; Vitamin H anabolism; Vitamin H biosynthesis; SY Vitamin H biosynthetic process; Vitamin H formation; SY Vitamin H synthesis. GO GO:0009102; biotin biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Biotin biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Blood coagulation. AC KW-0094 DE Protein involved in blood clotting, a complex enzymatic cascade in DE which the activated form of one factor catalyzes the activation of the DE next factor. Both the extrinsic clotting pathway, induced by a damaged DE surface, and the intrinsic pathway, induced by a trauma, converge in a DE final common pathway to form cross-linked fibrin clots. GO GO:0007596; blood coagulation HI Biological process: Hemostasis; Blood coagulation. CA Biological process. // ID Blood coagulation cascade activating toxin. AC KW-1204 DE Toxin which activates the blood coagulation cascade, which leads to DE the production of fibrin clots. Blood coagulation activating toxins DE include a variety of snake venom proteases. HI Molecular function: Toxin; Hemostasis impairing toxin; Blood coagulation cascade activating toxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Blood coagulation cascade inhibiting toxin. AC KW-1203 DE Toxin which inhibits the blood coagulation cascade, which leads to the DE production of fibrin clots. Blood coagulation inhibiting toxins DE include a variety of snake venom proteases. HI Molecular function: Toxin; Hemostasis impairing toxin; Blood coagulation cascade inhibiting toxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Blood group antigen. AC KW-0095 DE Protein belonging to the set of cell surface antigens found chiefly, DE but not solely, on blood cells. More than fifteen different blood DE group systems are recognised in humans. In most cases the antigenic DE determinant resides in the carbohydrate chains of membrane DE glycoproteins or glycolipids. SY Agglutinogen. HI Molecular function: Blood group antigen. CA Molecular function. // ID Bradykinin receptor impairing toxin. AC KW-1222 DE Toxin which interferes with the function of the bradykinin receptor DE (BDKR). BDKRs are G-protein coupled receptors whose principal ligand DE is the 9-amino acid peptide bradykinin. HI Molecular function: Toxin; G-protein coupled receptor impairing toxin; Bradykinin receptor impairing toxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Bradyzoite. AC KW-1136 DE Protein expressed in the bradyzoite stage, a latent, slowly growing DE and cyst-forming stage in the life cycle of coccidians (e.g. DE Toxoplasmy). Encysted bradyzoites promote chronic infection and DE widespread dissemination of the parasite. HI Developmental stage: Bradyzoite. CA Developmental stage. // ID Branched-chain amino acid biosynthesis. AC KW-0100 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of the essential aliphatic branched- DE chain amino acids leucine (Leu), isoleucine (Ile) and valine (Val). SY Branched-chain amino acid anabolism; SY Branched-chain amino acid biosynthetic process; SY Branched-chain amino acid formation; SY Branched-chain amino acid synthesis. GO GO:0009082; branched-chain amino acid biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Amino-acid biosynthesis; Branched-chain amino acid biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Branched-chain amino acid catabolism. AC KW-0101 DE Protein involved in the degradation of the branched-chain amino acids DE leucine (Leu), isoleucine (Ile) and valine (Val). SY Branched-chain amino acid breakdown; SY Branched-chain amino acid catabolic process; SY Branched-chain amino acid degradation. GO GO:0009083; branched-chain amino acid catabolic process HI Biological process: Branched-chain amino acid catabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Brassinosteroid biosynthesis. AC KW-1069 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of brassinosteroids, a class of DE steroid plant hormones. Brassinosteroids are involved in numerous DE plant processes, such as cell expansion and elongation (in association DE with auxin), vascular differentiation, pollen elongation and pollen DE tube formation and protection to plants during chilling and drought DE stress. Brassinolide is the first isolated brassinosteroid. SY Brassinosteroid anabolism; Brassinosteroid biosynthetic process; SY Brassinosteroid formation; Brassinosteroid synthesis. GO GO:0016132; brassinosteroid biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Lipid biosynthesis; Steroid biosynthesis; Brassinosteroid biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Brassinosteroid signaling pathway. AC KW-1070 DE Protein involved in the brassinosteroid (BR) signaling pathway (e.g. DE transport and signal transduction) that regulates many aspects of DE plant growth and development including cell expansion and elongation DE (in association with auxin), vascular differentiation and pollen DE elongation and pollen tube formation. Also involved in plants DE protection during chilling and drought stress. BRs are DE polyhydroxysteroid phytohormones and over 70 BR compounds have been DE isolated in plants. Brassinolide was the first BR isolated from DE Brassica napus and remains one of the most active BR. SY BR signalling pathway; BR-signalling pathway. GO GO:0009742; brassinosteroid mediated signaling pathway HI Biological process: Brassinosteroid signaling pathway. CA Biological process. // ID Bromination. AC KW-0102 DE Protein which is posttranslationally modified by the attachment of at DE least one bromine. SY Bromated; Brominated. HI PTM: Bromination. CA PTM. // ID Bromodomain. AC KW-0103 DE Protein containing at least one bromodomain. The bromodomain is a DE conserved region, approximately 70 amino acids, characteristic for a DE class of regulatory proteins. It mediates interactions with proteins DE that are necessary for transcriptional activation. HI Domain: Bromodomain. CA Domain. // ID Brugada syndrome. AC KW-0992 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Brugada syndrome, a heart disease DE characterized by an electrocardiogram pattern showing ST segment DE elevation in right precordial leads (V1 to V3), incomplete or complete DE right bundle branch block, and ventricular tachyarrhythmia. In some DE cases, tachycardia does not terminate spontaneously and it may DE degenerate into ventricular fibrillation and lead to sudden death. SY BRS. HI Disease: Brugada syndrome. CA Disease. // ID c-di-GMP. AC KW-0973 DE Protein whose function is c-di-GMP-dependent or which catalyzes its DE hydrolysis. c-di-GMP is the abbreviation for cyclic di-GMP, bis-(3'- DE 5') cyclic diguanylic acid. It acts as a bacterial second messenger. SY 3',5'-cyclic di-GMP; 3'-5'-cyclic diguanylic acid; SY Bis-(3'-5') cyclic diguanylic acid; SY Bis-(3'-5')-cyclic dimeric guanosine monophosphate; c-(Gpgp); cGpGp; SY Cyclic-bis(3',5')diguanylic acid; Cyclic diguanylate; SY Cyclic diguanylic acid; Cyclic dinucleotide di-GMP; SY Guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate. HI Ligand: c-di-GMP. CA Ligand. // ID Cadmium. AC KW-0104 DE Protein which binds at least one cadmium atom, or protein whose DE function is cadmium-dependent. Cadmium is a heavy metal, chemical DE symbol Cd. SY Cadmium ion; Cd. HI Ligand: Cadmium. WW https://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/text/Cd/ CA Ligand. // ID Cadmium resistance. AC KW-0105 DE Protein that confers, on bacteria and other microorganisms, the DE ability to withstand the transition metal cadmium (Cd). SY Cadmium ion resistance; Cd resistance; Resistance to cadmium; SY Resistance to cadmium ion; Resistance to Cd. GO GO:0046686; response to cadmium ion HI Biological process: Cadmium resistance. CA Biological process. // ID Calcium. AC KW-0106 DE Protein which binds at least one calcium atom, or protein whose DE function is calcium-dependent. Calcium is a metal, chemical symbol Ca. DE Calcium is essential for a variety of bodily functions, such as DE neurotransmission, muscle contraction and proper heart function. SY Ca; Calcium ion. HI Ligand: Calcium. WW https://www.webelements.com/calcium/ CA Ligand. // ID Calcium channel. AC KW-0107 DE Cell membrane glycoprotein forming a channel in a biological membrane DE selectively permeable to calcium ions. Calcium is essential for a DE variety of bodily functions, such as neurotransmission, muscle DE contraction and proper heart function. SY Ca channel; Calcium ion channel. GO GO:0005262; calcium channel activity GO GO:0070588; calcium ion transmembrane transport HI Ligand: Calcium; Calcium channel. HI Biological process: Transport; Ion transport; Calcium transport; Calcium channel. HI Molecular function: Ion channel; Calcium channel. CA Molecular function. // ID Calcium channel impairing toxin. AC KW-0108 DE Protein which interferes with the function of calcium channels which DE are membrane proteins forming a channel in a biological membrane DE selectively permeable to calcium ions. They are found in various DE venoms from snakes, scorpions and spiders. SY Ca channel inhibitor; Calcium ion channel inhibitor. GO GO:0005246; calcium channel regulator activity HI Molecular function: Toxin; Ion channel impairing toxin; Calcium channel impairing toxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Calcium transport. AC KW-0109 DE Protein involved in the transport of calcium ions. Calcium is DE essential for a variety of bodily functions, such as DE neurotransmission, muscle contraction and proper heart function. SY Calcium ion transport; Ca transport. GO GO:0006816; calcium ion transport HI Ligand: Calcium; Calcium transport. HI Biological process: Transport; Ion transport; Calcium transport. CA Biological process. // ID Calcium-activated potassium channel impairing toxin. AC KW-1221 DE Protein which interferes with the function of calcium-activated DE potassium channels (KCa) which are membrane proteins forming a channel DE in a biological membrane selectively permeable to potassium ions and DE gated by intracellular calcium. They are mostly found in snake and DE scorpion venoms. HI Molecular function: Toxin; Ion channel impairing toxin; Potassium channel impairing toxin; Calcium-activated potassium channel impairing toxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Calcium/phospholipid-binding. AC KW-0111 DE Protein which contains at least one binding site for calcium and DE phospholipid. For example, proteins with annexin repeats, of which a DE pair may form one binding site for calcium and phospholipid, or some DE proteins with C2 domains. SY Calcium-dependent phospholipid binding. GO GO:0005544; calcium-dependent phospholipid binding HI Ligand: Calcium; Calcium/phospholipid-binding. CA Ligand. // ID Calmodulin-binding. AC KW-0112 DE Protein which binds at least one calmodulin, an ubiquitous small DE calcium-binding protein. Its binding to proteins may cause a DE conformational change which either activates or inactivates their DE function. GO GO:0005516; calmodulin binding HI Molecular function: Calmodulin-binding. CA Molecular function. // ID Calvin cycle. AC KW-0113 DE Protein involved in the cycle of biochemical reactions responsible for DE photosynthetic CO(2) fixation in many photosynthetic bacteria and in DE the stroma of plant chloroplasts. The energy and reducing power for DE this reaction are provided by the ATP and NADPH produced during the DE light reactions of photosynthesis. The Calvin cycle is the only DE photosynthetic pathway in C3 plants. In C4 and CAM plants CO(2) is DE initially fixed into other organic acids that are subsequently DE decarboxylated to release CO(2) to the Calvin cycle. Non- DE photosynthetic organism (e.g. Rhizobium) also use the cycle to fix DE CO(2). SY Calvin-Benson cycle; Reductive pentose phosphate cycle. GO GO:0019253; reductive pentose-phosphate cycle HI Biological process: Calvin cycle. CA Biological process. // ID cAMP. AC KW-0114 DE Protein whose function is cAMP-dependent or which catalyzes its DE hydrolysis. cAMP is the abbreviation for cyclic AMP, adenosine 3',5'- DE cyclic monophosphate, the first second messenger hormone signaling DE system to be characterised. It is generated from ATP by the action of DE adenyl cyclase that is coupled to hormone receptors by G proteins. DE cAMP activates a specific protein kinase and is inactivated by DE phosphodiesterase action giving 5'AMP. SY 3',5'-cyclic AMP; Adenosine-3',5'-cyclic-monophosphate; SY Adenosine 3',5'-phosphate; Cyclic adenylic acid; Cyclic AMP. HI Ligand: cAMP. CA Ligand. // ID cAMP biosynthesis. AC KW-0115 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of cAMP. cAMP is the abbreviation DE for cyclic AMP, adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate. SY 3',5'-cyclic AMP anabolism; 3',5'-cyclic AMP biosynthesis; SY 3',5'-cyclic AMP biosynthetic process; 3',5'-cyclic AMP formation; SY 3',5'-cyclic AMP synthesis; SY Adenosine-3',5'-cyclic-monophosphate anabolism; SY Adenosine-3',5'-cyclic-monophosphate biosynthesis; SY Adenosine-3',5'-cyclic-monophosphate biosynthetic process; SY Adenosine-3',5'-cyclic-monophosphate formation; SY Adenosine-3',5'-cyclic-monophosphate synthesis; SY Adenosine 3',5'-phosphate anabolism; SY Adenosine 3',5'-phosphate biosynthesis; SY Adenosine 3',5'-phosphate biosynthetic process; SY Adenosine 3',5'-phosphate formation; SY Adenosine 3',5'-phosphate synthesis; cAMP anabolism; SY cAMP biosynthetic process; cAMP formation; cAMP synthesis; SY Cyclic adenylic acid anabolism; Cyclic adenylic acid biosynthesis; SY Cyclic adenylic acid biosynthetic process; SY Cyclic adenylic acid formation; Cyclic adenylic acid synthesis; SY Cyclic AMP anabolism; Cyclic AMP biosynthesis; SY Cyclic AMP biosynthetic process; Cyclic AMP formation; SY Cyclic AMP synthesis. GO GO:0006171; cAMP biosynthetic process HI Biological process: cAMP biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID cAMP-binding. AC KW-0116 DE Protein which binds at least one cAMP. cAMP is the abbreviation for DE cyclic AMP, adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate. SY 3',5'-cyclic AMP-binding; SY Adenosine-3',5'-cyclic-monophosphate-binding; SY Adenosine 3',5'-phosphate-binding; Cyclic adenylic acid-binding; SY Cyclic AMP-binding. GO GO:0030552; cAMP binding HI Ligand: cAMP; cAMP-binding. HI Ligand: Nucleotide-binding; cAMP-binding. CA Ligand. // ID Cap snatching. AC KW-1157 DE Protein involved in cap snatching, a process in which a cellular mRNA DE is cleaved few nucleotides after the 5'cap. The resulting 10- to 13- DE nucleotides long capped fragment serve as primer for the initiation of DE viral mRNA synthesis. Cap snatching is used by negative stranded RNA DE virus which do not encode a guanylyl transferase, like influenza or DE hantaviruses. GO GO:0075526; cap snatching HI Biological process: Cap snatching. CA Biological process. // ID Capsid decoration protein. AC KW-1232 DE Viral decoration protein attached to the capsid of some prokaryotic DE viruses. Decoration proteins are located on the outermost surface of DE the capsid and are involved in stabilizing the head structure. GO GO:0098021; viral capsid, decoration HI Cellular component: Virion; Capsid protein; Capsid decoration protein. CA Cellular component. // ID Capsid inner membrane protein. AC KW-1231 DE Viral protein part of the inner membrane of the capsid, a lipid DE bilayer contained inside the virion capsid. GO GO:0039641; viral inner membrane HI Cellular component: Virion; Capsid inner membrane protein. CA Cellular component. // ID Capsid protein. AC KW-0167 DE Structural protein which is part of the complex forming the protective DE shell around the nucleic acids of the virus. In prokaryotic viruses, DE this closed shell is also referred to as the head. SY Coat protein; Head protein. GO GO:0019028; viral capsid HI Cellular component: Virion; Capsid protein. CA Cellular component. // ID Capsule. AC KW-0875 DE Protein which is part of a capsule, the protective structure DE surrounding some bacteria or fungi. The bacterial capsule is a layer DE of material, usually polysaccharide, attached to the cell wall DE possibly via covalent attachments to either phospholipid or lipid-A DE molecules. It has several functions: promote bacterial adhesion to DE surfaces or interaction with other organisms; act as a permeability DE barrier, as a defense mechanism against phagocytosis and/or as a DE nutrient reserve. Among pathogens, capsule formation often correlates DE with pathogenicity. The fungal capsule is an extracellular layer which DE lies outside the cell wall and it is usually composed of DE polysaccharides. It protects the cell from different environmental DE dangers such as phagocytosis, dessication, etc. GO GO:0042603; capsule HI Cellular component: Secreted; Capsule. CA Cellular component. // ID Capsule biogenesis/degradation. AC KW-0972 DE Protein which is involved in the formation, organization, maintenance DE or degradation of the capsule. The capsule is a protective structure DE surrounding some bacteria or fungi. The bacterial capsule is a layer DE of material, usually polysaccharide, attached to the cell wall DE possibly via covalent attachments to either phospholipid or lipid-A DE molecules. The fungal capsule is an extracellular layer which lies DE outside the cell wall and it is usually composed of polysaccharides. HI Biological process: Capsule biogenesis/degradation. CA Biological process. // ID Carbohydrate metabolism. AC KW-0119 DE Protein participating in biochemical reactions in which carbohydrates DE are involved. Carbohydrate is a general term for sugars and related DE compounds with the general formula Cn(H2O)n. The smallest are DE monosaccharides (e.g. glucose); polysaccharides (e.g. starch, DE cellulose, glycogen) can be large and vary in length. SY Carbohydrate metabolic process; Sugar metabolic process; SY Sugar metabolism. GO GO:0005975; carbohydrate metabolic process HI Biological process: Carbohydrate metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Carbon dioxide fixation. AC KW-0120 DE Protein involved in the process of carbon dioxide fixation, e.g. DE incorporation of carbon dioxide into carbohydrates by photosynthetic DE organisms or formation of oxaloacetate from pyruvate. SY Carbon utilization by fixation of carbon dioxide; SY Carbon utilization by fixation of CO(2); SY Carbon utilization by fixation of CO2; CO(2) fixation; CO2 fixation. GO GO:0015977; carbon fixation HI Biological process: Carbon dioxide fixation. CA Biological process. // ID Carboxypeptidase. AC KW-0121 DE Protein that hydrolyzes a C-terminal peptide bond in polypeptide DE chains. GO GO:0004180; carboxypeptidase activity HI Molecular function: Hydrolase; Protease; Carboxypeptidase. CA Molecular function. // ID Carboxysome. AC KW-1282 DE Protein located in or on the carboxysome, bacterial microcompartments DE in which ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase (RuBisCO)-mediated CO(2) DE fixation occurs. The cytoplasmic polyhedral inclusion bodies are DE surrounded by a thin protein coat. Found in cyanobacteria and some DE chemoautotrophs, they enhance autotrophic CO(2) fixation in air by DE increasing the CO(2) concentration around RuBisCO, thus reducing its DE reaction with O(2), a competing substrate. They contain carbonic DE anhydrase as part of the CO(2) concentration mechanism. GO GO:0031470; carboxysome HI Cellular component: Bacterial microcompartment; Carboxysome. CA Cellular component. // ID Cardiomyopathy. AC KW-0122 DE Protein which, if defective, causes cardiomyopathy, a chronic disorder DE which affects the heart muscle causing a reduced pumping function. It DE is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. HI Disease: Cardiomyopathy. CA Disease. // ID Cardiotoxin. AC KW-0123 DE Protein which has a poisonous or deleterious effect upon the heart or DE other parts of the cardiovascular system. HI Molecular function: Toxin; Cardiotoxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Carnitine biosynthesis. AC KW-0124 DE Protein involved in the biosynthesis of carnitine (L-3-hydroxy-4, DE N,N,N-trimethylaminobutyrate), an essential metabolite with a number DE of indispensable roles in intermediary metabolism. SY 3-hydroxy-4-(trimethylammonio)butanoate anabolism; SY 3-hydroxy-4-(trimethylammonio)butanoate biosynthesis; SY 3-hydroxy-4-(trimethylammonio)butanoate biosynthetic process; SY 3-hydroxy-4-(trimethylammonio)butanoate formation; SY 3-hydroxy-4-(trimethylammonio)butanoate synthesis; SY Carnitine anabolism; Carnitine biosynthetic process; SY Carnitine formation; Carnitine synthesis; SY Gamma-trimethyl-hydroxybutyrobetaine anabolism; SY Gamma-trimethyl-hydroxybutyrobetaine biosynthesis; SY Gamma-trimethyl-hydroxybutyrobetaine biosynthetic process; SY Gamma-trimethyl-hydroxybutyrobetaine formation; SY Gamma-trimethyl-hydroxybutyrobetaine synthesis. GO GO:0045329; carnitine biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Carnitine biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Carotenoid biosynthesis. AC KW-0125 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of carotenoids, a group of orange, DE yellow, red, purple or brown pigments in plants, bacteria and some DE fungi. Carotenoids, which comprise the carotenes and the xanthophylls, DE are long polyisoprenoid molecules having conjugated double bonds DE enabling light absorbtion. SY Carotenoid anabolism; Carotenoid biosynthetic process; SY Carotenoid formation; Carotenoid synthesis. GO GO:0016117; carotenoid biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Carotenoid biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Cataract. AC KW-0898 DE Protein which, if defective, causes cataract, a partial or complete DE ocular opacity that affects the crystalline lens or its capsule, DE leading to impaired vision or blindness. The many types of cataract DE are classified by their morphology (size, shape, location) or etiology DE (cause and time of occurrence). Cataracts may occur as an isolated DE anomaly, as part of generalized ocular developmental defects, or as a DE component of a multisystem disorder. HI Disease: Cataract. CA Disease. // ID Catecholamine biosynthesis. AC KW-0127 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of catecholamines, which are amine DE derivatives of catechol (2-hydroxyphenol). They are synthesized from DE the amino acid tyrosine (Tyr) in sympathetic-nerve terminals and in DE the adrenal gland. Catecholamines act as hormones or neuro- DE transmitters, e.g. adrenaline, noradrenaline and dopamine. SY Catecholamine anabolism; Catecholamine biosynthetic process; SY Catecholamine formation; Catecholamine synthesis. GO GO:0042423; catecholamine biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Catecholamine biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Catecholamine metabolism. AC KW-0128 DE Protein participating the biochemical reactions in which DE catecholamines are involved. Catecholamines are amine derivatives of DE catechol (2-hydroxyphenol). They are synthesized from the amino acid DE tyrosine (Tyr) in sympathetic-nerve terminals and in the adrenal DE gland. Catecholamines act as hormones or neuro-transmitters, e.g. DE adrenaline, noradrenaline and dopamine. SY Catecholamine metabolic process. GO GO:0006584; catecholamine metabolic process HI Biological process: Catecholamine metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Caveolin-mediated endocytosis of virus by host. AC KW-1166 DE Viral protein involved in virus internalization by the host cell via DE caveolae, which are specialized lipid rafts that form 50-70 nm flask- DE shaped invaginations of the cell membrane. Caveolins form the DE structural backbone of caveolae. Internalization via caveolae is not a DE constitutive process but only occurs upon cell stimulation.Endocytic DE caveolae deliver their viral content to early endosomes. Caveolae DE represent a low capacity but highly regulated pathway. This pathway is DE used by viruses including HPV-31, BK virus, NDV, RSV, Coxsackie B DE virus, SV40, murine polyomavirus, and Echovirus 1. SY Virion endocytosis by caveolin-coated vesicle. GO GO:0075513; caveolin-mediated endocytosis of virus by host cell HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Viral penetration into host cytoplasm; Virus endocytosis by host; Caveolin-mediated endocytosis of virus by host. CA Biological process. // ID CBS domain. AC KW-0129 DE Protein containing at least one CBS domain, a conserved domain found DE in a wide range of proteins, which is named after cystathionine beta- DE synthase (CBS), an enzyme that contains 2 copies of this domain. HI Domain: CBS domain. CA Domain. // ID Cell adhesion. AC KW-0130 DE Protein involved in the adherence of cells to other cells or to a DE matrix. Cell adhesion is mediated by cell surface proteins. GO GO:0007155; cell adhesion HI Biological process: Cell adhesion. CA Biological process. // ID Cell adhesion impairing toxin. AC KW-1217 DE Toxin which interferes with the adherence of cells to other cells or DE to a matrix. Cell adhesion impairing toxins are mostly found in venom DE of snakes. HI Molecular function: Toxin; Cell adhesion impairing toxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Cell cycle. AC KW-0131 DE Protein involved in the complex series of events by which the cell DE duplicates its contents and divides into two. The eukaryotic cell DE cycle can be divided in four phases termed G1 (first gap period), S DE (synthesis, phase during which the DNA is replicated), G2 (second gap DE period) and M (mitosis). The prokaryotic cell cycle typically involves DE a period of growth followed by DNA replication, partition of DE chromosomes, formation of septum and division into two similar or DE identical daughter cells. GO GO:0007049; cell cycle HI Biological process: Cell cycle. CA Biological process. // ID Cell division. AC KW-0132 DE Protein involved in the separation of one cell into two daughter DE cells. In eukaryotic cells, cell division includes the nuclear DE division (mitosis) and the subsequent cytoplasmic division DE (cytokinesis). GO GO:0051301; cell division HI Biological process: Cell cycle; Cell division. CA Biological process. // ID Cell inner membrane. AC KW-0997 DE Protein found in or associated with the prokaryotic cell inner DE membrane, a selectively permeable membrane which separates the DE cytoplasm from the periplasm in prokaryotes with 2 membranes. SY Inner membrane. GO GO:0005886; plasma membrane HI Cellular component: Membrane; Cell membrane; Cell inner membrane. CA Cellular component. // ID Cell junction. AC KW-0965 DE Protein found in or associated with a cell junction, a cell-cell or DE cell-extracellular matrix contact within a tissue of a multicellular DE organism, especially abundant in epithelia. In vertebrates, there are DE three major types of cell junctions: anchoring junctions (e.g. DE adherens junctions), communicating junctions (e.g. gap junctions) and DE occluding junctions (e.g. tight junctions). GO GO:0070161; anchoring junction HI Cellular component: Cell junction. WW https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=mboc4&part=A3469 CA Cellular component. // ID Cell membrane. AC KW-1003 DE Protein found in or associated with the cytoplasmic membrane, a DE selectively permeable membrane which separates the cytoplasm from its DE surroundings. Known as the cell inner membrane in prokaryotes with 2 DE membranes. SY Cytoplasmic membrane; Plasmalemma; Plasma membrane. GO GO:0005886; plasma membrane HI Cellular component: Membrane; Cell membrane. CA Cellular component. // ID Cell outer membrane. AC KW-0998 DE Protein found in or associated with the prokaryotic cell outer DE membrane, a selectively permeable membrane which separates the DE prokaryotic periplasm from its surroundings. Traditionally only Gram- DE negative bacteria were thought of as having an outer membrane, but DE recent work has shown some Actinobacteria, including Mycobacterium DE tuberculosis, as well as at least 1 archaea (Ignicoccus hospitalis) DE have a cell outer membrane. SY Outer membrane. GO GO:0009279; cell outer membrane HI Cellular component: Membrane; Cell outer membrane. CA Cellular component. // ID Cell projection. AC KW-0966 DE Protein found in or associated with a cell protrusion such as DE pseudopodium, filopodium, lamellipodium, growth cone, flagellum, DE acrosome or axon, or bacterial comet tail. These membrane- DE cytoskeleton-coupled processes are involved in many biological DE functions, such as cell motility, cancer-cell invasion, endocytosis, DE phagocytosis, exocytosis, pathogen infection, neurite extension and DE cytokinesis. SY Cell protrusion. GO GO:0042995; cell projection HI Cellular component: Cell projection. CA Cellular component. // ID Cell shape. AC KW-0133 DE Protein involved in the formation and maintenance of the cell shape, DE the physical dimensions of a cell. In most plants, algae, bacteria and DE fungi the cell wall is responsible for the shape of the cells. GO GO:0008360; regulation of cell shape HI Biological process: Cell shape. CA Biological process. // ID Cell wall. AC KW-0134 DE Protein found in or associated with a complex and rigid layer DE surrounding the cell. Cell walls are found in bacteria, archaea, DE fungi, plants, and algae. The cell wall envelopes the inner or plasma DE membrane in all bacteria and is surrounded by the outer membrane in DE bacteria with 2 membranes (Gram-negative). Bacterial cell walls DE contain peptidoglycan whereas those of archaea do not. Some archaea DE may contain pseudopeptidoglycan, which is composed of N- DE acetyltalosaminuronic acid, instead of N-acetyl muramic acid in DE peptidoglycan. The plant cell wall is made of fibrils of cellulose DE embedded in a matrix of several other kinds of polymers such as pectin DE and lignin. Algal cell walls are usually composed of cellulose, DE glycoproteins, sporopollenin, calcium and various polysaccharides such DE as manosyl, xylanes, alginic acid. Diatom cell walls (or frustules) DE contain silica. The cell wall plays a role in cell shape, cell DE stability and development, and protection against environmental DE dangers. GO GO:0005618; cell wall HI Cellular component: Secreted; Cell wall. CA Cellular component. // ID Cell wall biogenesis/degradation. AC KW-0961 DE Protein which is involved in the formation, organization, maintenance DE or degradation of the cell wall. The cell wall is an extracellular DE layer outside the cell membrane which protects the cell against DE mechanical damage, osmotic strength and which determines the cell DE shape. It is prominent in most plants, algae, bacteria and fungi. GO GO:0071555; cell wall organization HI Biological process: Cell wall biogenesis/degradation. CA Biological process. // IC Cellular component. AC KW-9998 DE Keywords assigned to proteins because they are found in a specific DE cellular or extracellular component. // ID Cellulose biosynthesis. AC KW-0135 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of cellulose, a linear polymer of DE (1-4)-beta-linked D-glucose subunits. It is the most abundant cell- DE wall and structural polysaccharide in plants and it is also found in DE some lower invertebrates. Cellulose is the major component of wood and DE thus of paper. Cotton is the purest natural form of cellulose. As a DE raw material, it forms the basis for many derivatives used in DE chromatography, ion exchange materials, explosives manufacturing and DE pharmaceutical preparations. SY Cellulose anabolism; Cellulose biosynthetic process; SY Cellulose formation; Cellulose synthesis. GO GO:0030244; cellulose biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Cellulose biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Cellulose degradation. AC KW-0136 DE Protein involved in the conversion of cellulose into D-glucose. DE Cellulose is the most abundant cell-wall and structural polysaccharide DE in plants and it is also found in some lower invertebrates. Cellulose DE is the major component of wood and thus of paper. Cotton is the purest DE natural form of cellulose. As a raw material, it forms the basis for DE many derivatives used in chromatography, ion exchange materials, DE explosives manufacturing and pharmaceutical preparations. SY Cellulose breakdown; Cellulose catabolic process; SY Cellulose catabolism. GO GO:0030245; cellulose catabolic process HI Biological process: Carbohydrate metabolism; Polysaccharide degradation; Cellulose degradation. CA Biological process. // ID Centromere. AC KW-0137 DE Protein which binds centromeres or which is required for the assembly DE and movement of centromeres. Centromeres are the regions of replicated DE eukaryotic chromosomes where the two chromatids are joined together. SY Chromosome pericentric region. GO GO:0000775; chromosome, centromeric region HI Cellular component: Centromere. CA Cellular component. // ID CF(0). AC KW-0138 DE Protein component of the F-type ATP synthase complex CF(0) or protein DE involved in its assembly. F-type ATPases consist of the two complex DE components CF(0), the membrane proton channel, and CF(1), the DE catalytic core. SY ATPase membrane proton channel; SY Proton-transporting ATP synthase complex coupling factor F(0). GO GO:0045263; proton-transporting ATP synthase complex, coupling factor F(o) HI Biological process: Transport; Ion transport; Hydrogen ion transport; CF(0). HI Cellular component: CF(0). CA Cellular component. // ID CF(1). AC KW-0139 DE Protein component of the F-type ATP synthase complex CF(1) or protein DE involved in its assembly. F-type ATPases consist of the two complex DE components CF(0), the membrane proton channel, and CF(1), the DE catalytic core. SY ATPase catalytic core; SY Proton-transporting ATP synthase complex catalytic core F(1). GO GO:0045261; proton-transporting ATP synthase complex, catalytic core F(1) HI Biological process: ATP synthesis; CF(1). HI Cellular component: CF(1). CA Cellular component. // ID cGMP. AC KW-0140 DE Protein whose function is cGMP-dependent or which catalyzes its DE hydrolysis. cGMP is the abbreviation for cyclic GMP, guanosine 3',5'- DE cyclic monophosphate. It acts as a second messenger. SY 3',5'-cyclic GMP; Cyclic GMP; Cyclic guanylic acid; SY Guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate; Guanosine 3',5'-phosphate. HI Ligand: cGMP. CA Ligand. // ID cGMP biosynthesis. AC KW-0141 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of cGMP. cGMP is the abbreviation DE for cyclic GMP, guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate. SY 3',5'-cyclic GMP anabolism; 3',5'-cyclic GMP biosynthesis; SY 3',5'-cyclic GMP biosynthetic process; 3',5'-cyclic GMP formation; SY 3',5'-cyclic GMP synthesis; cGMP anabolism; cGMP biosynthetic process; SY cGMP formation; cGMP synthesis; Cyclic GMP anabolism; SY Cyclic GMP biosynthesis; Cyclic GMP biosynthetic process; SY Cyclic GMP formation; Cyclic GMP synthesis; SY Cyclic guanylic acid anabolism; Cyclic guanylic acid biosynthesis; SY Cyclic guanylic acid biosynthetic process; SY Cyclic guanylic acid formation; Cyclic guanylic acid synthesis; SY Guanosine-3',5'-cyclic-monophosphate anabolism; SY Guanosine-3',5'-cyclic-monophosphate biosynthesis; SY Guanosine-3',5'-cyclic-monophosphate biosynthetic process; SY Guanosine-3',5'-cyclic-monophosphate formation; SY Guanosine-3',5'-cyclic-monophosphate synthesis; SY Guanosine 3',5'-phosphate anabolism; SY Guanosine 3',5'-phosphate biosynthesis; SY Guanosine 3',5'-phosphate biosynthetic process; SY Guanosine 3',5'-phosphate formation; SY Guanosine 3',5'-phosphate synthesis. GO GO:0006182; cGMP biosynthetic process HI Biological process: cGMP biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID cGMP-binding. AC KW-0142 DE Protein which binds at least one cGMP. cGMP is the abbreviation for DE cyclic GMP, guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate. SY 3',5'-cyclic GMP-binding; Cyclic GMP-binding; SY Cyclic guanylic acid-binding; SY Guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate-binding; SY Guanosine 3',5'-phosphate-binding. GO GO:0030553; cGMP binding HI Ligand: cGMP; cGMP-binding. HI Ligand: Nucleotide-binding; cGMP-binding. CA Ligand. // ID Chaperone. AC KW-0143 DE Protein which is transiently involved in the noncovalent folding, DE assembly and/or disassembly of other polypeptides or RNA molecules, DE including any transport and oligomerisation processes they may DE undergo, and the refolding and reassembly of protein and RNA molecules DE denatured by stress. Though involved in these processes, chaperones DE are not an integral part of these functioning molecules. Also used for DE metallochaperones, which function to provide a metal directly to DE target proteins while protecting this metal from scavengers. HI Molecular function: Chaperone. CA Molecular function. // ID Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. AC KW-0144 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT), DE a heterogeneous group of hereditary motor and sensory neuropathies DE (HMSN) characterized by distal muscular atrophy and weakness, hollow DE feet, absent or diminished deep-tendon reflexes and impaired DE sensation. CMT is classified into two major classes. CMT type 1 DE includes demyelinating neuropathies that are characterized by nerve DE conductance velocities (NCVs) less than 38m/s and segmental DE demyelination and remyelination; CMT type 2 includes axonal DE neuropathies that are characterized by normal or mildly reduced NCVs DE and chronic axonal degeneration and regeneration. HI Disease: Neuropathy; Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. CA Disease. // ID Chemotaxis. AC KW-0145 DE Protein involved in the movement of a cell, or organism, along a DE concentration gradient of a chemotactic agent, such as a protein which DE causes, mediates or responds to chemotaxis. Chemotactic molecules such DE as sugars, peptides, cell metabolites, cell-wall or membrane lipids DE bind to cell surface receptors and trigger activation of intracellular DE signaling pathways, as well as remodeling of the cytoskeleton through DE the activation or inhibition of various actin-binding proteins. GO GO:0006935; chemotaxis HI Biological process: Chemotaxis. CA Biological process. // ID Chitin degradation. AC KW-0146 DE Protein involved in the breakdown of chitin, a linear polysaccharide DE consisting of (1->4)-beta-linked D-glucosamine residues, most of which DE are N-acetylated. SY Chitin breakdown; Chitin catabolic process; Chitin catabolism. GO GO:0006032; chitin catabolic process HI Biological process: Carbohydrate metabolism; Polysaccharide degradation; Chitin degradation. CA Biological process. // ID Chitin-binding. AC KW-0147 DE Protein which binds chitin, a linear polysaccharide consisting of DE (1->4)-beta-linked D-glucosamine residues, most of which are N- DE acetylated. The 30-43 amino acids long chitin-binding domain contains DE several conserved glycine and cysteines residues. The conserved DE cysteines form disulfide bonds. Chitin-binding domains have been found DE in plant, fungal and bacterial proteins. GO GO:0008061; chitin binding HI Ligand: Chitin-binding. CA Ligand. // ID Chloride. AC KW-0868 DE Protein which binds at least one chloride, or protein whose function DE is chloride-dependent. Chloride is a negatively-charged ion, which is DE abbreviated Cl(-). SY Chloride anion; Chloride ion; Cl-. HI Ligand: Chloride. WW https://www.webelements.com/chlorine/ CA Ligand. // ID Chloride channel. AC KW-0869 DE Protein which is part of an anion channel found in the plasma membrane DE and in intracellular membranes. These channels are permeable for DE various anions, such as iodide, bromide, but also for nitrates, DE phosphates and even negatively charged amino acids. They are called DE chloride channels, because chloride is the most abundant anion and the DE predominant permeating species in all organisms. They have been DE classified according to their gating mechanisms, which may depend on DE changes in the transmembrane electric field (voltage-dependent/gated DE chloride channels, e.g. ClC family), on a protein kinase/nucleotide DE mediated mechanism (CFTR), an increase in intracellular calcium DE (calcium activated chloride channels, e.g. CaCC), cell swelling DE (volume-regulated anion channels, e.g. VRAC) or binding of a ligand, DE e.g. glycine or - aminobutyric acid (GABA) activated channels. In DE contrast with cation channels, they are not involved in the initiation DE or spread of excitation, but in the regulation of excitability in DE nerve and muscle. They also participate in many housekeeping DE processes, such as volume regulation, pH regulation in organelles, DE electrogenesis and control of synaptic activity. The chloride channels DE are crucial for transepithelial transport and the control of water DE flow, and often provide unexpected permeation pathways for a large DE variety of anions. SY Chloride anion channel; Chloride ion channel; Cl- channel. GO GO:0005254; chloride channel activity GO GO:0006821; chloride transport GO GO:0034707; chloride channel complex HI Biological process: Transport; Ion transport; Chloride channel. HI Molecular function: Ion channel; Chloride channel. HI Ligand: Chloride; Chloride channel. CA Molecular function. // ID Chloride channel impairing toxin. AC KW-1265 DE Protein which interferes with the function of chloride channels which DE are membrane proteins forming a channel in a biological membrane DE selectively permeable to chloride ions. Chloride channels include DE voltage-gated chloride channels (ClC), ionotropic GABA receptors DE (ligand-gated ion channels activated by GABA) and CFTR ion channels DE (ABC transporter-class ion channels). Toxins that target these DE channels are found in venom of several species including scorpions and DE snakes. SY Chloride anion channel inhibitor; Chloride ion channel inhibitor; SY Cl- channel inhibitor. HI Molecular function: Toxin; Ion channel impairing toxin; Chloride channel impairing toxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Chlorophyll. AC KW-0148 DE Protein which interacts with chlorophyll, the major light-absorbing DE pigment in most oygenic green organisms. Higher plants contain DE chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b which are magnesium-porphyrin DE complexes esterified to a long hydrophobic terpenoid side chain (the DE alcohol phytol). GO GO:0016168; chlorophyll binding HI Ligand: Chromophore; Chlorophyll. CA Ligand. // ID Chlorophyll biosynthesis. AC KW-0149 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of chlorophylls. These DE photosynthetic pigments are magnesium-porphyrin complexes with a long DE hydrophobic terpenoid side chain (the alcohol phytol). Angiosperms DE have only a light-dependent pathway for chlorophyll biosynthesis, DE other oxygenic organisms seem to have both the light-dependent and the DE light-independent pathways. Non-oxygenic organisms, which make DE bacteriochlorophyll, only have a light-independent pathway. SY Chlorophyll anabolism; Chlorophyll biosynthetic process; SY Chlorophyll formation; Chlorophyll synthesis. GO GO:0015995; chlorophyll biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Chlorophyll biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Chlorophyll catabolism. AC KW-0881 DE Protein involved in the degradation of chlorophylls. These DE photosynthetic pigments are magnesium-porphyrin complexes with a long DE hydrophobic terpenoid side chain (the alcohol phytol). SY Chlorophyll breakdown; Chlorophyll catabolic process; SY Chlorophyll degradation. GO GO:0015996; chlorophyll catabolic process HI Biological process: Chlorophyll catabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Chloroplast. AC KW-0150 DE Protein encoded by or localized in the chloroplast, the most common DE form of plastid, found in all photosynthetic organisms except DE glaucophyte algae. In green (photosynthesizing) tissue they house the DE machinery necessary for photosynthesis and CO(2) fixation. They are DE surrounded by between 2 and 4 membranes and contain thylakoids in DE green tissue. GO GO:0009507; chloroplast HI Cellular component: Plastid; Chloroplast. CA Cellular component. // ID Chlorosome. AC KW-0151 DE Photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes found in green bacteria. DE Chlorosomes are sac-like organelles appressed to the cytoplasmic DE membrane of the cell membrane. GO GO:0046858; chlorosome HI Biological process: Photosynthesis; Chlorosome. HI Cellular component: Chlorosome. CA Cellular component. // ID Cholesterol biosynthesis. AC KW-0152 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of cholesterol, the major sterol of DE higher animals. It is a component of cell membranes, especially of the DE plasma membrane. SY Cholesterol anabolism; Cholesterol biosynthetic process; SY Cholesterol formation; Cholesterol synthesis. GO GO:0006695; cholesterol biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Steroid metabolism; Sterol metabolism; Cholesterol metabolism; Cholesterol biosynthesis. HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Lipid biosynthesis; Steroid biosynthesis; Sterol biosynthesis; Cholesterol biosynthesis. HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Steroid metabolism; Sterol metabolism; Sterol biosynthesis; Cholesterol biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Cholesterol metabolism. AC KW-0153 DE Protein which participates in the biochemical reactions where DE cholesterol is involved, including transport. Cholesterol is the major DE sterol of higher animals and an important component of cell membranes, DE especially of the plasma membrane. SY Cholesterol metabolic process. GO GO:0008203; cholesterol metabolic process HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Steroid metabolism; Sterol metabolism; Cholesterol metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Chondrogenesis. AC KW-0891 DE Protein involved in chondrogenesis, the mechanism of cartilage DE formation. Chondrogenesis proceeds through determination of cells and DE their aggregation into prechondrogenic condensations, differentiation DE into chondrocytes, and later maturation. The formation of the long DE bones requires a cartilage template. SY Cartilage biogenesis; Cartilage biosynthesis; Cartilage development; SY Cartilage formation. GO GO:0051216; cartilage development HI Biological process: Chondrogenesis. CA Biological process. // ID Chromate resistance. AC KW-0155 DE Protein that enables bacteria and other microorganisms to withstand DE chromate, a salt of chromic acid (H2CrO4). SY Resistance to chromate. GO GO:0046687; response to chromate HI Biological process: Chromate resistance. CA Biological process. // ID Chromatin regulator. AC KW-0156 DE Protein controlling the opening or closing of chromatin. GO GO:0006325; chromatin organization HI Molecular function: Chromatin regulator. CA Molecular function. // ID Chromophore. AC KW-0157 DE Protein which interacts with one or more chromophores. A chromophore DE absorbs and transmits light energy. Originally it was used for visibly DE colored molecules, but it applies also to UV- and IR-absorbing DE molecules. HI Ligand: Chromophore. CA Ligand. // ID Chromoplast. AC KW-0957 DE Protein found in or associated with a chromoplast, a plastid DE containing pigments other than chlorophyll. Found in flower, petals DE and fruit. GO GO:0009509; chromoplast HI Cellular component: Plastid; Chromoplast. CA Cellular component. // ID Chromosomal rearrangement. AC KW-0160 DE Protein which can be altered by a structural chromosomal DE rearrangement. Structural rearrangements result from chromosome DE breakage, followed by reconstitution in an abnormal combination. DE Classes of chromosomal rearrangements include: deletions, DE duplications, insertions, inversions, translocations and DE transpositions. HI Coding sequence diversity: Chromosomal rearrangement. CA Coding sequence diversity. // ID Chromosome. AC KW-0158 DE Protein which is associated with chromosomal DNA, including histones, DE protamines and high mobility group proteins. SY Chromosomal protein. GO GO:0005694; chromosome HI Cellular component: Chromosome. CA Cellular component. // ID Chromosome partition. AC KW-0159 DE Protein involved in chromosome partition, the process by which newly DE replicated plasmids and chromosomes are actively segregated prior to DE cell division. E.g., par and soj which contribute to efficient DE chromosome partitioning by serving functions analogous to centromeres DE (i.e. pairing or positioning of sister chromosomes). SY Chromosome segregation. GO GO:0007059; chromosome segregation HI Biological process: Chromosome partition. CA Biological process. // ID Chronic granulomatous disease. AC KW-0161 DE Protein which, if defective, causes chronic granulomatous disease DE (CGD), a disease characterized by the failure of activated phagocytes DE to generate superoxide. SY CGD. HI Disease: Chronic granulomatous disease. CA Disease. // ID Chylomicron. AC KW-0162 DE Protein component of the chylomicrons or involved in their catabolism. DE Chylomicrons are the largest lipoprotein complexes with the lowest DE protein-to-lipid ratio. They are present in the blood or lymph and DE transport exogenous (dietary) cholesterol, triacylglycerols and other DE lipids from the intestine to the liver or to the adipose tissue. GO GO:0042627; chylomicron HI Cellular component: Chylomicron. CA Cellular component. // ID Ciliopathy. AC KW-1186 DE Protein which, if defective, causes any one of a group of diseases DE associated with either abnormal formation or function of cilia. DE Ciliopathies cover a large spectrum of often overlapping phenotypes DE ranging from relatively mild, tissue-restricted pathologies to severe DE defects in multiple organs. Although cilia play important roles in DE many tissues, the predominantly affected organs are kidney, eye, liver DE and brain. Clinical features typically include retinal degeneration, DE renal disease and cerebral anomalies. Additional manifestations DE include congenital fibrocystic diseases of the liver, diabetes, DE obesity and skeletal dysplasias. Ciliary dysfunction in the embryo may DE cause randomization of left-right body asymmetry or situs inversus, as DE well as severe malformations leading to embryonic lethality. HI Disease: Ciliopathy. CA Disease. // ID Cilium. AC KW-0969 DE Protein found in or associated with a cilium, a cell surface DE projection found at the surface of a large proportion of eukaryotic DE cells. The two basic types of cilia, motile (alternatively named DE flagella) and non-motile, collectively perform a wide variety of DE functions broadly encompassing cell/fluid movement and sensory DE perception. Their most prominent structural component is the axoneme DE which consists of nine doublet microtubules, with all motile cilia DE - except those at the embryonic node - containing an additional DE central pair of microtubules. The axonemal microtubules of all cilia DE nucleate and extend from a basal body, a centriolar structure most DE often composed of a radial array of nine triplet microtubules. In most DE cells, basal bodies associate with cell membranes and cilia are DE assembled as 'extracellular' membrane-enclosed compartments. SY Cilia. GO GO:0005929; cilium HI Cellular component: Cell projection; Cilium. WW https://ciliome.com CA Cellular component. // ID Cilium biogenesis/degradation. AC KW-0970 DE Protein which is involved in the formation, organization, maintenance DE and degradation of the cilium, a cell surface projection found at the DE surface of a large proportion of eukaryotic. Their most prominent DE structural component is the axoneme which consists of nine doublet DE microtubules, with all motile cilia - except those at the embryonic DE node - containing an additional central pair of microtubules. GO GO:0030030; cell projection organization HI Biological process: Cilium biogenesis/degradation. CA Biological process. // ID Citrate utilization. AC KW-0163 DE Protein which allows the utilization of the 6-carbon tricarboxylic DE acid citrate as a sole source of carbon and energy. GO GO:0006101; citrate metabolic process HI Biological process: Citrate utilization. CA Biological process. // ID Citrullination. AC KW-0164 DE Protein which is posttranslationally modified by the deimination of DE one or more arginine residues. SY 2-amino-5-(carbamoylamino)pentanoic acid; Citrulline; SY N5-carbamoylornithine. HI PTM: Citrullination. CA PTM. // ID Clathrin- and caveolin-independent endocytosis of virus by host. AC KW-1167 DE Viral protein involved in virus internalization into the host cell via DE endocytic pathways that involve neither clathrin nor caveolins. These DE pathways can be further defined by their dependency on various DE molecules such as cholesterol, DNM2/Dynamin-2, small GTPases or DE tyrosine kinase and possibly involve non-caveolar lipid rafts. DE Clathrin- and caveolin-independent pathways are used by viruses DE including poliovirus, human rhinovirus 14, lymphocytic DE choriomeningitis virus, murine norovirus-1 and SV40. SY Non-clathrin/non caveolin-mediated endocytosis by host. GO GO:0019065; receptor-mediated endocytosis of virus by host cell HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Viral penetration into host cytoplasm; Virus endocytosis by host; Clathrin- and caveolin-independent endocytosis of virus by host. CA Biological process. // ID Clathrin-mediated endocytosis of virus by host. AC KW-1165 DE Viral protein involved in virus internalization by the host cell via DE clathrin-mediated endocytosis. In response to an internalization DE signal, clathrin is assembled on the inside face of the cell membrane DE to form characteristic invaginations or clathrin coated pits that DE pinch off through the action of DNM1/Dynamin-1 or DNM2/Dynamin-2. The DE virus bound to its host cell receptor is internalized into clathrin- DE coated vesicles (CCV). Endocytic CCV deliver their viral content to DE early endosomes. The endosomal acidic pH and/or receptor binding DE usually induces structural modifications of the virus surface proteins DE that lead to penetration of the endosomal membrane via fusion or DE permeabilization mechanisms. SY Virion endocytosis by clathrin-coated vesicle. GO GO:0075512; clathrin-dependent endocytosis of virus by host cell HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Viral penetration into host cytoplasm; Virus endocytosis by host; Clathrin-mediated endocytosis of virus by host. CA Biological process. // ID Cleavage on pair of basic residues. AC KW-0165 DE Protein which is posttranslationally modified by the cleavage on at DE least one pair of basic residues, in order to release one or more DE mature active peptides (such as hormones). HI PTM: Cleavage on pair of basic residues. CA PTM. // ID Coated pit. AC KW-0168 DE Protein which is a component of a coated pit. Coated pits are regions DE of the donor membrane where the assembly of the vesicle coat take DE place. The coat assembles from soluble protomers such as coat protein DE complex-I and coat protein complex-II. The components of the coat DE often define the intracellular sorting station, and contribute to both DE membrane deformation and local movement of the resulting transport DE intermediate following scission. During the first steps of the DE vesicle-mediated membrane transport, coated pits are internalized to DE form coated vesicles which transport proteins between distinct DE membrane-bound organelles. GO GO:0005905; clathrin-coated pit HI Cellular component: Membrane; Coated pit. CA Cellular component. // ID Cobalamin. AC KW-0846 DE Protein which contains at least one cobalamin as cofactor, e.g. DE methylmalonyl-CoA mutase, or which binds and/or transports cobalamin, DE such as intrinsic factor or transcobalamins. Cobalamin, which is DE synthesized by microorganisms, has equatorial sites occupied by a DE tetrapyrrol ring structure (corrin ring) with a cobalt(III) ion in the DE center, one axial site occupied by an intramolecularly-bound DE dimethylbenzimidazole and the other axial site occupied by a number of DE different ligands such as water (aquacobalamin), cyanide DE (cyanocobalamin=vitamin B12), glutathione (glutathionylcobalamin), DE 5'deoxyadenosine (adenosylcobalamin=coenzyme B12) or a methyl group DE (methylcobalamin). It is a prosthetic group of certain mammalian DE enzymes, where it is essential for the normal maturation and DE development of erythrocytes. A deficiency in the diet or more DE frequently the failure to absorb the vitamin give rise to pernicious DE anemia. SY Vitamin B12. GO GO:0031419; cobalamin binding HI Ligand: Cobalt; Cobalamin. CA Ligand. // ID Cobalamin biosynthesis. AC KW-0169 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of cobalamin. Cobalamin, which is DE synthesized by microorganisms, has equatorial sites occupied by a DE modified porphyrin ring system, with two of the four pyrrol rings DE fused directly (without an intervening methine bridge). The modified DE porphyrin system binds a cobalt(III) ion in the center, and this is DE called a corrin ring system. One axial site is occupied usually by an DE intramolecularly-bound dimethylbenzimidazole nucleotide and the other DE axial site is occupied by a number of different ligands such as water DE (aquacobalamin), cyanide (cyanocobalamine=vitamin B12), glutathione DE (glutathionylcobalamine), 5'deoxyadenosine DE (adenosylcobalamine=coenzyme B12) or a methyl group (methylcobalamin). DE Vitamin B12, for instance, is a prosthetic group of certain mammalian DE enzymes, where it is essential for the normal maturation and DE development of erythrocytes. A deficiency in the diet or more DE frequently the failure to absorb the vitamin B12 give rise to DE pernicious anemia. SY Cobalamin anabolism; Cobalamin biosynthetic process; SY Cobalamin formation; Cobalamin synthesis; Vitamin B12 anabolism; SY Vitamin B12 biosynthesis; Vitamin B12 biosynthetic process; SY Vitamin B12 formation; Vitamin B12 synthesis. GO GO:0009236; cobalamin biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Cobalamin biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Cobalt. AC KW-0170 DE Protein which binds at least one cobalt atom, or protein whose DE function is cobalt-dependent. Cobalt is a metallic element, chemical DE symbol Co. SY Co; Cobalt cation; Cobalt ion; Co cation; Co ion. HI Ligand: Cobalt. WW https://www.webelements.com/cobalt/ CA Ligand. // ID Cobalt transport. AC KW-0171 DE Protein involved in the transport of the trace element cobalt, which DE is a component of vitamin B12. SY Cobalt cation transport; Cobalt ion transport; Co cation transport; SY Co ion transport; Co transport. GO GO:0006824; cobalt ion transport HI Ligand: Cobalt; Cobalt transport. HI Biological process: Transport; Ion transport; Cobalt transport. CA Biological process. // ID Cockayne syndrome. AC KW-0172 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Cockayne's syndrome (CS), an DE autosomal recessive disease characterized by UV-sensitive skin DE (without pigmentation abnormalities), neurological dysfunction due to DE demyelination of neurons and calcification of basal ganglia DE (psychomotor retardation, deafness, optic atrophy, retinal DE pigmentation and hyperreflexes) and dysmorphic dwarfism (immature DE sexual development and microcephaly). SY Cockayne's syndrome; CS. HI Disease: Cockayne syndrome. CA Disease. // IC Coding sequence diversity. AC KW-9997 DE Keywords assigned to proteins because their sequences can differ, due DE to differences in the coding sequences such as polymorphisms, RNA- DE editing, alternative splicing. // ID Coenzyme A biosynthesis. AC KW-0173 DE Protein involved in the biosynthetic pathway leading from pantothenate DE to coenzyme A (CoA). CoA has two halves in phosphodiester linkage: a DE 3',5'-ADP residue, and 4-phosphopantetheine. The phosphopantetheine DE moiety is itself composed of three structural entities: a branched DE chain dihydroxy acid in amide linkage to a beta-alanyl residue, which DE is in turn linked to a cysteamide containing the reactive thiol. DE Coenzyme A functions as a carrier of acetyl and acyl groups and is DE essential for numerous biosynthetic, energy-yielding, and degradative DE metabolic pathways. Acetyl-CoA is the common cellular currency for DE acetyl transfers. SY CoA anabolism; CoA biosynthesis; CoA biosynthetic process; SY CoA formation; CoASH anabolism; CoASH biosynthesis; SY CoASH biosynthetic process; CoASH formation; CoASH synthesis; SY CoA synthesis; Coenzyme A anabolism; Coenzyme A biosynthetic process; SY Coenzyme A formation; Coenzyme A synthesis. GO GO:0015937; coenzyme A biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Coenzyme A biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Coenzyme M biosynthesis. AC KW-0174 DE Protein involved in the biosynthesis of coenzyme M. Coenzyme M (2- DE mercaptoethanesulfonic acid) is the smallest known organic cofactor. DE CoM serves as a methyl group carrier in key reactions within the DE pathway of methane formation from C1 precursors. In the alkene DE metabolism pathway, it is involved in aliphatic epoxyde carboxylation. SY 2-mercaptoethanesulfonic acid anabolism; SY 2-mercaptoethanesulfonic acid biosynthesis; SY 2-mercaptoethanesulfonic acid biosynthetic process; SY 2-mercaptoethanesulfonic acid formation; SY 2-mercaptoethanesulfonic acid synthesis; Coenzyme M anabolism; SY Coenzyme M biosynthetic process; Coenzyme M formation; SY Coenzyme M synthesis; CoM anabolism; CoM biosynthesis; SY CoM biosynthetic process; CoM formation; CoM synthesis. GO GO:0019295; coenzyme M biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Coenzyme M biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Coiled coil. AC KW-0175 DE Protein which contains at least one coiled coil domain, a type of DE secondary structure composed of two or more alpha helices which DE entwine to form a cable structure. In proteins, the helical cables DE serve a mechanical role in forming stiff bundles of fibres. SY Heptad repeat pattern. HI Domain: Coiled coil. CA Domain. // ID Collagen. AC KW-0176 DE Protein which contains one or more collagen-like domain. Collagen is a DE fibrous protein found in vertebrates, the major element of skin, bone, DE tendon, cartilage, blood vessels and teeth. It forms insoluble fibres DE of high tensile strength and which contains the unusual amino acids DE hyroxyproline and hydroxylysine. It is rich in glycine but lacks DE cysteine and tryptophan, and has an unusually regular amino-acid DE domain. GO GO:0005581; collagen trimer HI Domain: Collagen. CA Domain. // ID Collagen degradation. AC KW-0177 DE Protein involved in the degradation of collagen, a family of fibrous DE proteins found in skin, bones, teeth, cartilage and other tissues of DE vertebrates. SY Collagen breakdown; Collagen catabolic process; Collagen catabolism. GO GO:0030574; collagen catabolic process HI Biological process: Collagen degradation. CA Biological process. // ID Competence. AC KW-0178 DE Protein involved in competence, the state in which a cell or organism DE is able to take up DNA and become genetically transformed. GO GO:0030420; establishment of competence for transformation HI Biological process: Competence. CA Biological process. // ID Complement activation lectin pathway. AC KW-1018 DE Protein involved in the complement activation lectin pathway which DE activates the proteins of the complement system. This pathway can be DE activated mainly by mannose-binding lectin (MBL) interacting with DE carbohydrate structures on microbial surfaces and by ficolins with DE different fine carbohydrate binding specificity. SY Lectin complement pathway; Lectin pathway. GO GO:0001867; complement activation, lectin pathway HI Biological process: Immunity; Innate immunity; Complement activation lectin pathway. CA Biological process. // ID Complement alternate pathway. AC KW-0179 DE Protein involved in the complement alternate pathway which activates DE the proteins of the complement system. This pathway can be activated DE by IgA immune complexes, but also by bacterial endotoxins, DE polysaccharides and cell walls, without participation of an antigen- DE antibody reaction. SY Alternate complement pathway; SY Complement activation alternative pathway; Properdin system. GO GO:0006957; complement activation, alternative pathway HI Biological process: Immunity; Innate immunity; Complement alternate pathway. CA Biological process. // ID Complement pathway. AC KW-0180 DE Pathway which activates the proteins of the complement system, a group DE of blood proteins of the globulin class involved in the lysis of DE foreign cells after they have been coated with antibody, and which DE also promote the removal of antibody-coated foreign particles by DE phagocytic cells. The pathway proceeds by a cascade reaction of DE successive binding and proteolytic cleavage of complement components. DE This pathway can be activated by either IgG or IgM binding to an DE antigen. SY Classical complement pathway; Complement activation classical pathway. GO GO:0006958; complement activation, classical pathway HI Biological process: Immunity; Innate immunity; Complement pathway. CA Biological process. // ID Complement system impairing toxin. AC KW-1216 DE Toxin which interferes with the complement system. These toxins act by DE activating, inhibiting, or mimicking proteins of this system. They are DE mostly found in snake and spider venoms. HI Molecular function: Toxin; Complement system impairing toxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Cone-rod dystrophy. AC KW-0182 DE Protein which, if defective, causes cone-rod dystrophy, a disease DE where dystrophy of cone-rod cells is characterized by the initial DE degeneration of cone photoreceptor cells, thus causing early loss of DE visual acuity and color vision, followed by the degeneration of rod DE photoreceptor cells and leading to progressive night blindness and DE peripheral visual field loss. HI Disease: Cone-rod dystrophy. CA Disease. // ID Congenital adrenal hyperplasia. AC KW-0954 DE Protein which, if defective, causes congenital adrenal hyperplasia, a DE group of inherited disorders of cortisol biosynthesis. Defective DE cortisol biosynthesis results in compensatory hypersecretion of DE corticotropin with subsequent adrenal hyperplasia and excessive DE androgen production. Various clinical types are recognized: "salt DE wasting form" is the most severe type, "simple virilizing form" with DE normal aldosterone biosynthesis, "non-classic form" or late onset, and DE "cryptic form" or asymptomatic. SY CAH. HI Disease: Congenital adrenal hyperplasia. CA Disease. // ID Congenital disorder of glycosylation. AC KW-0900 DE Protein which, if defective, causes a congenital disorder of DE glycosylation. In the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of eukaryotes, N- DE linked glycans are first assembled on the lipid carrier dolichyl DE pyrophosphate. The GlcNAc(2)Man(9)Glc(3) oligosaccharide is DE transferred to selected asparagine residues of nascent polypeptides. DE Defects along the biosynthetic pathway of N-glycans are associated DE with severe multisystemic syndromes called congenital disorders of DE glycosylation (CDG). The characteristic biochemical feature of CDG is DE defective glycosylation of glycoproteins due to mutations in genes DE required for the biosynthesis of N-linked oligosaccharides. Defects of DE the assembly of dolichyl-linked oligosaccharides or their transfer on DE to nascent glycoproteins form type I forms of CDG, whereas CDG type II DE comprises all defects of the trimming and elongation of N-linked DE oligosaccharides. HI Disease: Congenital disorder of glycosylation. CA Disease. // ID Congenital dyserythropoietic anemia. AC KW-1055 DE Protein which, if defective, causes congenital dyserythropoietic DE anemia, a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by the DE occurrence of multinuclear erythroid precursors in the bone marrow, DE ineffective erythropoiesis, iron overload and anemia. Various forms DE are differentiated mainly by the morphological appearance of the DE erythroid precursors. SY CDA. HI Disease: Hereditary hemolytic anemia; Congenital dyserythropoietic anemia. CA Disease. // ID Congenital erythrocytosis. AC KW-0985 DE Protein which, if defective, causes congenital absolute DE erythrocytosis, a disorder characterized by expansion of the DE erythrocyte compartment in the peripheral blood. Total red cell mass DE is increased in the absence of a reduction of plasma volume. DE Erythrocytoses are usually divided into primary and secondary forms. DE Primary erythrocytoses are due to defects in the erythroid progenitors DE and are characterized by low erythropoietin levels. Secondary DE erythrocytoses can be due to defects in hypoxia sensing, or to DE conditions that cause low tissue oxygen tension with consequent DE increase in erythropoietin secretion. SY Congenital polycythemia. HI Disease: Congenital erythrocytosis. CA Disease. // ID Congenital generalized lipodystrophy. AC KW-1022 DE Protein which, if defective, causes congenital generalized DE lipodystrophy, a disorder characterized by near complete absence of DE adipose tissue from birth. Affected patients manifest insulin DE resistance, early onset diabetes mellitus, hypertriglyceridemia, DE hepatic steatosis and acanthosis nigricans. SY Berardinelli-Seip syndrome; Congenital generalized lipoatrophy. HI Disease: Congenital generalized lipodystrophy. CA Disease. // ID Congenital hypothyroidism. AC KW-0984 DE Protein which, if defective, causes congenital hypothyroidism, a DE condition due to thyroid hormones deficiency, presenting at birth. DE Congenital hypothyroidism occurs when the thyroid gland fails to DE develop or function properly. In most cases, the thyroid gland is DE absent, abnormally located, or severely reduced in size. In the DE remaining cases, a normal-sized or enlarged thyroid gland is present, DE but production of thyroid hormones is decreased or absent. If DE untreated, congenital hypothyroidism can lead to intellectual DE disability and growth failure. HI Disease: Congenital hypothyroidism. CA Disease. // ID Congenital muscular dystrophy. AC KW-0912 DE The congenital muscular dystrophies (CMD) are a heterogeneous group of DE disorders characterized by hypotonia, muscle weakness, dystrophic DE changes on skeletal muscle biopsy, and joint contractures that present DE at birth or during the first 6 months of life. Intellectual disability DE with or without structural brain changes is an additional feature of DE several CMD syndromes. HI Disease: Congenital muscular dystrophy. CA Disease. // ID Congenital myasthenic syndrome. AC KW-1004 DE Protein which, if defective, causes congenital myasthenic syndrome. DE Congenital myasthenic syndromes constitute a group of inherited DE diseases characterized by a congenital defect in neuromuscular DE transmission at the neuromuscular junction, including pre-synaptic, DE synaptic, and post-synaptic disorders that are not of autoimmune DE origin. Congenital myasthenic syndromes are characterized by muscle DE weakness affecting the axial and limb muscles (with hypotonia in DE early-onset forms), the ocular muscles (leading to ptosis and DE ophthalmoplegia), and the facial and bulbar musculature (affecting DE sucking and swallowing, and leading to dysphonia). The symptoms DE fluctuate and worsen with physical effort. SY CMS. HI Disease: Congenital myasthenic syndrome. CA Disease. // ID Congenital stationary night blindness. AC KW-1014 DE Protein which, if defective, causes congenital stationary night DE blindness that is the failure or imperfection of vision at night or in DE dim light, with good vision only on bright days. SY CSNB. HI Disease: Congenital stationary night blindness. CA Disease. // ID Conidiation. AC KW-0183 DE Protein involved in conidiation, the production of conidia which are DE asexual fungal spores. SY Conidia biosynthesis; Conidia formation; Conidium biosynthesis; SY Conidium formation. GO GO:0048315; conidium formation HI Biological process: Sporulation; Conidiation. CA Biological process. // ID Conjugation. AC KW-0184 DE Protein involved in the temporary fusion of two gametes or two cells DE leading to the transfer of genetic material. This process is seen in DE bacteria, ciliate protozoa and certain fungi. HI Biological process: Conjugation. CA Biological process. // ID Copper. AC KW-0186 DE Protein which binds at least one copper atom, or protein whose DE function is copper-dependent. Copper is a trace metallic element, DE chemical symbol Cu. SY Copper cation; Copper ion; Cu; Cu cation; Cu ion. HI Ligand: Copper. WW https://www.webelements.com/copper/ CA Ligand. // ID Copper transport. AC KW-0187 DE Protein involved in the transport of ions of the trace element copper. SY Copper cation transport; Copper ion transport; Cu transport. GO GO:0006825; copper ion transport HI Ligand: Copper; Copper transport. HI Biological process: Transport; Ion transport; Copper transport. CA Biological process. // ID Copulatory plug. AC KW-0188 DE Protein involded in the formation of the copulatory plug, a plug DE composed of a number of proteins which are secreted by the seminal DE vesicle under the influence of testosterone. Found in rodents. GO GO:0042628; mating plug formation HI Cellular component: Copulatory plug. CA Cellular component. // ID Corneal dystrophy. AC KW-1212 DE Protein which, if defective, causes corneal dystrophy. The term DE corneal dystrophy includes a heterogeneous group of bilateral, primary DE alterations of the cornea that are not associated with prior DE inflammation or secondary to systemic disease. Most corneal DE dystrophies present with variable shaped corneal opacities in a clear DE or cloudy cornea and they affect visual acuity to different degrees. DE Corneal dystrophies may be present at birth but more frequently DE develop during adolescence and progress slowly throughout life. HI Disease: Corneal dystrophy. CA Disease. // ID Covalent protein-DNA linkage. AC KW-0190 DE Protein covalently attached to a DNA molecule. For example some DE viruses contains proteins that are attached to the end of a viral DE replicating DNA and which are necessary for DNA replication. SY DNA-protein covalent cross-linking. HI PTM: Covalent protein-DNA linkage. CA PTM. // ID Covalent protein-RNA linkage. AC KW-0191 DE Protein covalently attached to a RNA molecule. For example some DE viruses contains proteins that are attached to the end of a viral DE replicating RNA and which are necessary for RNA replication. SY RNA-protein covalent cross-linking. GO GO:0018144; RNA-protein covalent cross-linking HI PTM: Covalent protein-RNA linkage. CA PTM. // ID Craniosynostosis. AC KW-0989 DE Protein which, if defective, causes craniosynostosis, the premature DE closure of one or more cranial sutures which results in an abnormal DE head shape. Different types of craniosynostosis are known. All are DE characterized by skull deformities, with face and often limb DE involvement in the syndromic forms. SY Craniostosis. HI Disease: Craniosynostosis. CA Disease. // ID CRISPR-cas system evasion by virus. AC KW-1257 DE Viral protein that inhibits host defense CRISPR-cas system (Clustered DE Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats). The CRISPR-cas DE system is composed of genomic sensors that allow prokaryotes to DE acquire DNA fragments from invading viruses and plasmids into the DE CRISPR locus. These stored fragments (called spacers) are transcribed DE and processed into small crRNA which are used to destroy matching DNA DE in future viral and plasmid invasion. Some prokaryotic viruses express DE specific genes that allow them to evade CRISPR-cas system. GO GO:0098672; inhibition of host CRISPR-cas system by virus HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host adaptive immune response by virus; CRISPR-cas system evasion by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Crown gall tumor. AC KW-0192 DE Protein involved in crown gall tumor formation, a plant tumor caused DE by the bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens. HI Disease: Crown gall tumor. CA Disease. // ID CTQ. AC KW-0885 DE Protein which contains at least one cysteine tryptophylquinone (CTQ) DE cross-link modification. CTQ is formed by oxidation of the indole ring DE of a tryptophan to form tryptophylquinone followed by covalent cross- DE linking with a cysteine residue. In the quinohemoprotein amine DE dehydrogenase, CTQ mediates during the catalytic cycle electron DE transfer from the substrate to either a copper protein, azurin, or DE cytochrome c-550. SY Cysteine tryptophylquinone. HI PTM: CTQ. CA PTM. // ID Cushing syndrome. AC KW-1062 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Cushing syndrome, a condition DE caused by prolonged exposure to excess levels of cortisol from DE endogenous or exogenous sources. Endogenous Cushing syndrome is due to DE excess production of cortisol by the adrenal glands. It may be caused DE by pituary hypersecretion of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), DE ectopic ACTH secretion by non-pituary tumors, or may result from DE cortisol hypersecretion by adrenal gland tumors (ACTH-independent DE Cushing syndrome). Cushing syndrome is clinically characterized by DE upper body obesity, osteoporosis, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, DE hirsutism, amenorrhea, and excess body fluid. SY Cushing's syndrome; Hyperadrenocorticism; Hypercortisolism. HI Disease: Cushing syndrome. CA Disease. // ID Cuticle. AC KW-0193 DE Protein which is a component of the cuticle, the outer protective DE layer produced by epidermal cells that covers the body of many DE invertebrates. GO GO:0042302; structural constituent of cuticle HI Cellular component: Cuticle. CA Cellular component. // ID Cyanelle. AC KW-0194 DE Protein encoded by the cyanelle genome or protein located in the DE cyanelle. Cyanelles are the plastids of glaucocystophyte algae. They DE are surrounded by a double membrane and, in between, a peptidoglycan DE wall. The cyanelle genome is of chloroplast size and contains genes DE for tRNAs, rRNAs and approx. 150 proteins, which is more than found in DE higher plant chloroplast genomes (this feature is also shared by other DE primitive plastids). Thylakoid membrane architecture is cyanobacteria- DE like. Historically, the term cyanelle is derived from a classification DE as endosymbiotic cyanobacteria, and thus is not fully correct. SY Cyanoplast; Muroplast. GO GO:0009842; cyanelle HI Cellular component: Plastid; Cyanelle. CA Cellular component. // ID Cyclin. AC KW-0195 DE Protein that belongs to the cyclin family or that contains a cyclin DE box-like domain. Cyclins are regulatory subunits of the cyclin- DE dependent protein kinases. They form kinase holoenzymes, with distinct DE biochemical characteristics and nonredundant biological functions, DE which mediate phosphorylation of cellular proteins, including key cell DE cycle regulatory molecules. In this way, the kinase holoenzymes DE promote the transit of cells through the division cycle. Cyclins DE accumulate during interphase of eukaryotic cell cycle and are DE destroyed at the end of mitosis. HI Molecular function: Cyclin. CA Molecular function. // ID Cycloheximide resistance. AC KW-0196 DE Protein that confers, on an organism, the ability to withstand DE cycloheximide, an antibiotic produced by Streptomyces griseus, which DE inhibits eukaryotic elongation during protein synthesis. The DE resistance is often due to mutations that prevent antibiotic binding DE to the protein. SY Resistance to cycloheximide. GO GO:0046898; response to cycloheximide HI Biological process: Antibiotic resistance; Cycloheximide resistance. CA Biological process. // ID Cysteine biosynthesis. AC KW-0198 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of cysteine, the amino acid with the DE highly reactive sulfhydryl group (-SH). It is derived from the amino DE acids methionine and serine. Cysteine plays a special role in shaping DE some proteins by forming disulfide bonds. In enzymes the unique DE reactivity of this group is frequently exploited at the catalytic DE site. SY Cysteine anabolism; Cysteine biosynthetic process; Cysteine formation; SY Cysteine synthesis. GO GO:0019344; cysteine biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Amino-acid biosynthesis; Cysteine biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Cystinuria. AC KW-0199 DE Protein which, if defective, causes cystinuria (CSNU), an autosomal DE recessive condition of persistent excessive urinary excretion of DE cystine and three other dibasic amino acids: lysine, ornithine, and DE arginine. CSNU arises from impaired reabsorption of these amino acids DE through the epithelial cells of the renal tubule and gastrointestinal DE tract. It is characterized by cystine stones in the kidney, ureter and DE bladder. Three clinical types of cystinuria have been described: DE cystinuria type-I (CSNU1), type-II (CSNU2) and type-III (CSNU3). SY CSNU. HI Disease: Cystinuria. CA Disease. // ID Cytadherence. AC KW-0200 DE Protein involved in cytadherence, the attachment of mycoplasma to the DE epithelium. GO GO:0020035; adhesion of symbiont to microvasculature HI Biological process: Cytadherence. CA Biological process. // ID Cytochrome c-type biogenesis. AC KW-0201 DE Protein involved in the biogenesis of c-type cytochromes. Cytochromes DE c are electron-transfer proteins having one or several heme c groups, DE bound to the protein by one or, more commonly two, thioether bonds DE involving sulphydryl groups of cysteine residues. SY Cytochrome c-type formation; Cytochrome c-type synthesis. GO GO:0017004; cytochrome complex assembly HI Biological process: Cytochrome c-type biogenesis. CA Biological process. // ID Cytokine. AC KW-0202 DE Small secreted proteins from higher eukaryotes which affect the DE growth, division and functions of other cells, e.g. interleukins, DE lymphokines, TNF and interferons. Generally, growth factors are not DE classified as cytokines, though TGF is an exception. Chemokines are a DE subset of cytokines. They differ from classical hormones in that they DE are produced by a number of tissues or cell types rather than by DE specialized glands. They generally act locally in a paracrine or DE autocrine rather than endocrine manner. GO GO:0005125; cytokine activity GO GO:0005615; extracellular space HI Molecular function: Cytokine. CA Molecular function. // ID Cytokinin biosynthesis. AC KW-0203 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of cytokinins, a class of plant DE hormones which promote cell division (e.g. kinetin, zeatin, benzyl DE adenine). They are also involved in cell growth, cell differentiation DE and in other physiological processes. SY Cytokinin anabolism; Cytokinin biosynthetic process; SY Cytokinin formation; Cytokinin synthesis. GO GO:0009691; cytokinin biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Cytokinin biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Cytokinin signaling pathway. AC KW-0932 DE Protein involved in the cytokinin signaling pathway (i.e. transport or DE signal transduction). Cytokinins (i.e. kinetin and zeatin) are defined DE more by their biological activity (e.g. inducing cell division in DE tissue culture) rather than by structure. These phytohormones are DE synthesized in the root apical meristem and transported through the DE plant in the xylem sap. Cytokinins are involved in several DE physiological processes such as promoting cell division and DE chloroplast maturation, regulating cell growth and differentiation, DE and monitoring nutrient uptake and senescence. Together with auxin, DE they also regulate the cell cycle and tissue morphogenesis. SY Cytokinin mediated signaling. GO GO:0009736; cytokinin-activated signaling pathway HI Biological process: Cytokinin signaling pathway. CA Biological process. // ID Cytolysis. AC KW-0204 DE Protein involved in the rupture of cell membranes and loss of DE cytoplasm, e.g. exotoxin, cytolysin. SY Cell lysis. GO GO:0031640; killing of cells of another organism HI Biological process: Cytolysis. CA Biological process. // ID Cytoplasm. AC KW-0963 DE Protein found in the cytoplasm, the content of a cell within the DE plasma membrane and, in eukaryotics cells, surrounding the nucleus. DE This three-dimensional, jelly-like lattice interconnects and supports DE the other solid structures. The cytosol (the soluble portion of the DE cytoplasm outside the organelles) is mostly composed of water and many DE low molecular weight compounds. In eukaryotes, the cytoplasm also DE contains a network of cytoplasmic filaments (cytoskeleton). GO GO:0005737; cytoplasm HI Cellular component: Cytoplasm. CA Cellular component. // ID Cytoplasmic inwards viral transport. AC KW-1176 DE Viral protein that allows the active transport of viral components DE along cytoskeletal filaments toward the intracellular replication DE sites during virus entry. Viruses such as adenoviruses, adeno- DE associated virus, vaccinia virus, poliovirus, canine parvovirus, DE African swine fever virus, rabies virus, human herpes virus 1, foamy DE virus are thought to use active intracellular transport of viral DE components. GO GO:0075606; transport of viral material towards nucleus HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Cytoplasmic inwards viral transport. CA Biological process. // ID Cytoplasmic vesicle. AC KW-0968 DE Protein found in or associated with cytoplasmic vesicles, which DE mediate vesicular transport among the organelles of secretory and DE endocytic systems. These transport vesicles are classified by the DE identity of the protein coat used in their formation and also by the DE cargo they contain, e.g. clathrin-, COPI-, and COPII-coated vesicles, DE synaptic vesicles, secretory vesicles, phagosomes, etc. GO GO:0031410; cytoplasmic vesicle HI Cellular component: Cytoplasmic vesicle. CA Cellular component. // ID Cytosine metabolism. AC KW-0205 DE Protein involved in the biochemical reactions with the pyrimidine base DE cytosine. SY Cytosine metabolic process. GO GO:0019858; cytosine metabolic process HI Biological process: Cytosine metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Cytoskeleton. AC KW-0206 DE Protein which is a component or which is associated with the DE cytoskeleton, a dynamic three-dimensional filamentous structure in the DE cytoplasm. The cytoskeleton is both a muscle and a skeleton, and its DE roles include maintenance of cell shape, cell movement (in DE eukaryotes), cytokinesis, and the organization of the organelles DE within the cell. This includes the major components of cytoskeleton; DE microfilaments (actin-like proteins), microtubules (tubulin-like DE proteins) and intermediate filaments (mostly in eukaryotes) and DE prokaryotic MinD-ParA proteins. Originally not thought to exist in DE prokaryotes, but now known to have the same functions as in DE eukyaryotes. GO GO:0005856; cytoskeleton HI Cellular component: Cytoplasm; Cytoskeleton. CA Cellular component. // ID D-amino acid. AC KW-0208 DE Protein which contains at least one D-amino acid. All of the amino DE acids derived from natural proteins are of the L configuration. D- DE amino acids are found in nature, especially as components of certain DE peptide antibiotics and in walls of certain microorganisms. HI PTM: D-amino acid. CA PTM. // ID Deafness. AC KW-0209 DE Protein which, if defective, causes a partial or total inability to DE hear. The two principal types of deafness are conductive deafness that DE results from changes in the middle ear, and nerve or sensorineural DE deafness that is caused by damages to the inner ear, the nerve DE pathways to the brain, or the area of the brain that receives sound DE information. HI Disease: Deafness. CA Disease. // ID Decarboxylase. AC KW-0210 DE Enzyme that belongs to the lyase family and which catalyzes the DE spliting of CO(2) from the carboxylic group of amino acids, beta-keto DE acids and alpha-keto acids. GO GO:0016831; carboxy-lyase activity HI Molecular function: Lyase; Decarboxylase. CA Molecular function. // ID Decay of host mRNAs by virus. AC KW-1132 DE Viral protein involved in the degradation of host mRNAs. Viruses have DE evolved ways of degrading host mRNAs to inhibit cellular translation. DE This global inhibition of cellular protein synthesis serves to ensure DE maximal viral gene expression and to evade host immune response. Decay DE of host mRNAs can be achieved by endonucleotic RNA cleavage or DE associated with PABPC1 nuclear relocalization. GO GO:0039595; induction by virus of catabolism of host mRNA HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Host gene expression shutoff by virus; Eukaryotic host gene expression shutoff by virus; Host mRNA suppression by virus; Decay of host mRNAs by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Defensin. AC KW-0211 DE Families of microbicidal and cytotoxic peptides. Defensins have DE antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral properties. Defensins kills DE cells by forming voltage-regulated multimeric channels in the DE susceptible cell's membrane. GO GO:0006952; defense response HI Molecular function: Antimicrobial; Defensin. CA Molecular function. // ID Degradation of host capsule during virus entry. AC KW-1238 DE Virion protein involved in breaking down host cell capsule to reach DE the host cell wall, and finally the host cytoplasmic membrane. Many DE prokaryotic viruses carry for example glycanase, polysaccharide lyase DE or deacetylase activities to specifically digest host capsule. GO GO:0098996; disruption of host cell glycocalyx during viral entry HI Cellular component: Virion; Degradation of host capsule during virus entry. HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Degradation of host cell envelope components during virus entry; Degradation of host capsule during virus entry. CA Biological process. // ID Degradation of host cell envelope components during virus entry. AC KW-1235 DE Virion protein involved in breaking down host cell surface components DE to reach the host cytoplasmic membrane. Many prokaryotic viruses for DE example carry enzymatic activities to degrade the host cell DE lipopolysaccharide layer, cell wall, or capsule. GO GO:0098994; disruption of host cell envelope during viral entry HI Cellular component: Virion; Degradation of host cell envelope components during virus entry. HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Degradation of host cell envelope components during virus entry. CA Biological process. // ID Degradation of host chromosome by virus. AC KW-1247 DE Viral protein that rapidly degrades the host DNA at the onset of DE infection. The breakdown products can be reused to synthesize viral DE DNA or can be excreted from the host cell. Degrading host chromosome DE provides an advantage during the virus life cycle by reducing or DE eliminating competing host macromolecular synthesis. Bacteriophages DE such as T4 or T5 for example are known to induce degradation of the DE host chromosome and excretion of the host DNA degradation products. GO GO:0099015; degradation of host chromosome by virus HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Host gene expression shutoff by virus; Bacterial host gene expression shutoff by virus; Degradation of host chromosome by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Degradation of host lipopolysaccharides during virus entry. AC KW-1237 DE Virion protein involved in breaking down host cell lipopolysaccharides DE (LPS) to reach the cytoplasmic membrane of prokaryotes with 2 DE membranes. Many prokaryotic viruses carry glycanase or deacetylase DE activities to digest host LPS. GO GO:0098995; disruption by virus of host envelope lipopolysaccharide during virus entry HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Degradation of host cell envelope components during virus entry; Degradation of host lipopolysaccharides during virus entry. CA Biological process. // ID Degradation of host peptidoglycans during virus entry. AC KW-1236 DE Virion exolysin involved in breaking down host cell peptidoglycans DE (e.g. murein, pseudomurein) to reach the host cytoplasmic membrane DE during virus entry. Exolysins are usually part of the tail or the base DE plate of prokaryotic viruses. Exolysins can display various enzymatic DE activities such as lysozyme, transglycosylase, muramidase or even DE protease activity. Murein hydrolases for example are widespread in DE bacteriophages infecting Gram-positive or Gram-negative bacteria. GO GO:0098932; disruption by virus of host cell wall peptidoglycan during virus entry HI Cellular component: Virion; Degradation of host peptidoglycans during virus entry. HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Degradation of host cell envelope components during virus entry; Degradation of host peptidoglycans during virus entry. CA Biological process. // ID Dejerine-Sottas syndrome. AC KW-0213 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Dejerine-Sottas disease. DSS is a DE hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy (HMSN) of the Charcot-Marie- DE Tooth disease type 1 class. DSS is characterized by severe early DE onset, very slow nerve conduction velocities (less than 12m/sec) and DE raised cerebrospinal fluid protein concentrations (0.7 g/l). Clinical DE signs are delayed age of walking as well as areflexia. SY DSS. HI Disease: Neuropathy; Dejerine-Sottas syndrome. CA Disease. // ID Dental caries. AC KW-0214 DE Protein involved in dental caries or important in the prevention of DE dental caries. Dental caries are localized destruction of the tooth DE surface, initiated by decalcification of the enamel and followed by DE enzymatic lysis of organic structures, the result of which is cavity DE formation. The cavity may penetrate the enamel and dentin, and reach DE the pulp. The disease may be caused by acids produced by bacteria DE which lead to decalcification, or by microorganisms that destroy the DE enamel protein, or by keratolytic microorganisms producing chelates DE that lead to decalcification. HI Disease: Dental caries. CA Disease. // ID Deoxyribonucleotide synthesis. AC KW-0215 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of deoxyribonucleotides, the basic DE repeating units in DNA. Deoxyribonucleotides consist of a purine or a DE pyrimidine base bonded to deoxyribose, which in turn is bound to a DE phosphate group. They are synthesised by reduction of ribonucleoside DE diphosphates. SY Deoxyribonucleotide anabolism; Deoxyribonucleotide biosynthesis; SY Deoxyribonucleotide biosynthetic process; SY Deoxyribonucleotide formation. GO GO:0009263; deoxyribonucleotide biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Deoxyribonucleotide synthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Dermonecrotic toxin. AC KW-1061 DE Protein involved in the necrosis of the skin. HI Molecular function: Toxin; Dermonecrotic toxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Desmin-related myopathy. AC KW-0911 DE Protein which, if defective, causes desmin-related myopathy (DRM), a DE clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of muscular disorders DE defined morphologically by intrasarcoplasmic aggregates of desmin, DE usually accompanied by other protein aggregates. Both autosomal DE dominant and autosomal recessive inheritance have been reported. DE Approximately one-third of DRMs are thought to be caused by mutations DE in the desmin gene. HI Disease: Myofibrillar myopathy; Desmin-related myopathy. CA Disease. // ID Detoxification. AC KW-0216 DE Protein involved in degrading toxic compounds. Detoxification DE generally takes place in the liver or kidney and inactivates toxins, DE either by degradation or by conjugation of residues to a hydrophilic DE moiety in order to promote excretion. GO GO:0009636; response to toxic substance HI Biological process: Detoxification. CA Biological process. // ID Developmental protein. AC KW-0217 DE Protein involved in development, the process whereby a multicellular DE organism develops from its early immature forms, e.g., zygote, larva, DE embryo, into an adult. GO GO:0007275; multicellular organism development HI Molecular function: Developmental protein. CA Molecular function. // IC Developmental stage. AC KW-9996 DE Keywords assigned to proteins because they are expressed specifically DE in a given developmental stage. // ID Diabetes insipidus. AC KW-0218 DE Protein which, if defective, causes diabetes insipidus, a rare form of DE diabetes in which the kidney tubules do not reabsorb enough water DE resulting in excessive urine excretion (polyuria). Two types of DE diabetes insipidus are recognized: central or neurohypophyseal DE diabetes insipidus which is due to defects in the neurohypophyseal DE system and results in a deficient quantity of anti-diuretic hormone DE being produced or released; nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, a DE vasopressin unresponsive condition of polyuria and hyposthenuria. HI Disease: Diabetes insipidus. CA Disease. // ID Diabetes mellitus. AC KW-0219 DE Protein which, if defective, causes diabetes mellitus, a disorder of DE impaired carbohydrate, protein, and fat metabolism due to insufficient DE secretion of insulin or to target tissue insulin resistance. Diabetes DE mellitus can be divided into two main types, type I or insulin- DE dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), and type II, or non insulin- DE dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM). Type I diabetes mellitus normally DE starts in childhood or adolescence and is caused by the body's own DE immune system which destroys the insulin-producing beta cells in the DE pancreas. Classical features are polydipsia, polyphagia and polyuria, DE due to hyperglycemia-induced osmotic diuresis. Type II diabetes DE mellitus normally starts in adulthood and is caused by a lack of DE sensitivity to the body's own insulin. It is usually characterized by DE a gradual onset with minimal or no symptoms of metabolic disturbance. DE Both forms of diabetes mellitus lead to secondary complications DE (notably cardiovascular, nephropathy, retinopathy, neuropathy). Two DE other major subcategories of diabetes mellitus are gestational DE diabetes and diabetes secondary to other medical conditions. In common DE usage, the term diabetes, when used alone, refers to diabetes mellitus DE and not diabetes insipidus. HI Disease: Diabetes mellitus. CA Disease. // ID Diaminopimelate biosynthesis. AC KW-0220 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of diaminopimelate, the ionic form DE of the amino acid diaminopimelic acid (DAP) which is found in the DE murein peptidoglycans of bacterial cell walls. Diaminopimelic acid is DE synthesised from aspartate. SY Diaminopimelate anabolism; Diaminopimelate biosynthetic process; SY Diaminopimelate formation; Diaminopimelate synthesis. GO GO:0019877; diaminopimelate biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Diaminopimelate biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Diamond-Blackfan anemia. AC KW-1024 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Diamond-Blackfan anemia, a rare DE congenital non-regenerative hypoplastic anemia that usually presents DE early in infancy. The disease is characterized by a moderate to severe DE macrocytic anemia, erythroblastopenia, and an increased risk of DE developing leukemia. 30 to 40% of Diamond-Blackfan anemia patients DE present with short stature and congenital anomalies, the most frequent DE being craniofacial (Pierre-Robin syndrome and cleft palate), thumb and DE urogenital anomalies. SY Aase-Smith syndrome II; Aase syndrome; BDS; Blackfan-Diamond disease; SY Blackfan-Diamond syndrome; Chronic congenital aregenerative anemia; SY Congenital erythroid hypoplastic anemia; SY Congenital hypoplastic anemia of Blackfan and Diamond; DBA; SY Erythrogenesis imperfecta; Pure red cell aplasia. HI Disease: Diamond-Blackfan anemia. CA Disease. // ID Differentiation. AC KW-0221 DE Protein involved in differentiation, the developmental process of a DE multicellular organism by which cells become specialized for DE particular functions. Differentiation requires selective expression of DE the genome; the fully differentiated state may be preceded by a stage DE in which the cell is already programmed for differentiation but is not DE yet expressing the characteristic phenotype determination. Also used DE for fungal conidiation proteins, and for some bacteria that present DE specialization of function in cell types, such as Caulobacter DE crescentus. SY Cell differentiation. GO GO:0030154; cell differentiation HI Biological process: Differentiation. CA Biological process. // ID Digestion. AC KW-0222 DE Protein involved in the process whereby nutrients are rendered soluble DE and capable of being absorbed by the organism or cell, by action of DE various hydrolytic enzymes that break down proteins, carbohydrates, DE fats, etc. GO GO:0007586; digestion HI Biological process: Digestion. CA Biological process. // ID Dioxygenase. AC KW-0223 DE Enzyme that reduces molecular oxygen by incorporating both atoms into DE its substrate(s). GO GO:0051213; dioxygenase activity HI Molecular function: Oxidoreductase; Dioxygenase. CA Molecular function. // ID Dipeptidase. AC KW-0224 DE Enzyme that hydrolyzes a dipeptide into its constituent amino acids. GO GO:0016805; dipeptidase activity HI Molecular function: Hydrolase; Protease; Dipeptidase. CA Molecular function. // ID Direct protein sequencing. AC KW-0903 DE Protein, whose amino acid sequence has been partially (more than one DE residue) or completely determined experimentally by Edman degradation DE or by mass spectrometry. HI Technical term: Direct protein sequencing. CA Technical term. // IC Disease. AC KW-9995 DE Keywords assigned to proteins because they are involved in a specific DE disease. // ID Disease variant. AC KW-0225 DE Protein for which at least one genetic variant involved in a disease DE is reported in the feature table of the UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot entry. HI Disease: Disease variant. HI Coding sequence diversity: Disease variant. CA Disease. // ID Disulfide bond. AC KW-1015 DE Protein which is modified by the formation of a bond between the thiol DE groups of two peptidyl-cysteine residues. The process of chemical DE oxidation that forms interchain disulfide bonds can produce stable, DE covalently linked protein dimers, multimers or complexes, whereas DE intrachain disulfide bonds can contribute to protein folding and DE stability. Depending on the protein environment, some disulfide bonds DE are more labile, forming transient redox-active disulfide bonds that DE are alternately reduced and oxidized in the course of an enzymatic DE reaction. HI PTM: Disulfide bond. CA PTM. // ID DNA condensation. AC KW-0226 DE Protein involved in DNA condensation. In most eukaryotes, the DE chromosomal packing involves the wrapping of DNA around a core of DE histones to form nucleosomes. Adjacent nucleosomes are packaged DE together via Histone 1 and nucleosomes are organised into a 30 nm DE chromatin fibre. DNA condensation takes place as cells enter mitosis DE or when germ cells enter meiosis. GO GO:0030261; chromosome condensation HI Biological process: DNA condensation. CA Biological process. // ID DNA damage. AC KW-0227 DE Protein induced by DNA damage or protein involved in the response to DE DNA damage. Drug- or radiation-induced injuries in DNA introduce DE deviations from its normal double-helical conformation. These changes DE include structural distortions which interfere with replication and DE transcription, as well as point mutations which disrupt base pairs and DE exert damaging effects on future generations through changes in DNA DE sequence. Response to DNA damage results in either repair or DE tolerance. SY DNA damage response; Response to DNA damage stimulus. GO GO:0006974; DNA damage response HI Biological process: DNA damage. CA Biological process. // ID DNA end degradation evasion by virus. AC KW-1256 DE Viral protein that inhibits or counteracts prokaryotic host DE helicase/nuclease proteins in order to escape the antiviral activity DE of the latter. When functioning in their exonuclease mode, DE helicase/nuclease proteins such as bacterial RecBCD or AddAB degrade DE any free DNA end as well as the linear dsDNA products resulting from DE restriction Type II cleavage. Any prokaryotic virus that exposes free DE dsDNA ends as part of its life cycle must find the means to evade DE destruction by these host enzymes. Prokaryotic viruses escape this DE host defense by expressing inhibitors or by protecting the ends of DE their linear genomes from digestion. GO GO:0099016; evasion by virus of DNA end degradation HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus; DNA end degradation evasion by virus. CA Biological process. // ID DNA excision. AC KW-0228 DE Protein involved in the repair of damages to one strand of DNA (loss DE of purines due to thermal fluctuations, formation of pyrimidine dimers DE by UV irradiation, for instance). The site of damage is recognized, DE excised by an endonuclease, the correct sequence is copied from the DE complementary strand by a polymerase and the ends of this correct DE sequence are joined to the rest of the strand by a ligase. In DE bacterial systems, the polymerase also acts as endonuclease. Excisase DE A and other proteins involved in recombination mediate DNA excision; a DE process whereby abnormal or mismatched nucleotides are enzymatically DE cut out of a strand of a DNA molecule. GO GO:0006281; DNA repair HI Biological process: DNA excision. CA Biological process. // ID DNA integration. AC KW-0229 DE Protein involved in DNA integration, a process that mediates the DE insertion of foreign genetic material, or other duplex DNA, into a DE chromosome, or another replicon, in order to form a covalently linked DE DNA continuous with the host DNA. GO GO:0015074; DNA integration HI Biological process: DNA integration. CA Biological process. // ID DNA invertase. AC KW-0230 DE Specific recombinases which catalyze the inversion of a DNA segment DE within a nucleoprotein structure termed invertasome. GO GO:0000150; DNA strand exchange activity GO GO:0003677; DNA binding GO GO:0006310; DNA recombination HI Biological process: DNA recombination; DNA invertase. HI Molecular function: DNA-binding; DNA invertase. HI Molecular function: DNA invertase. CA Molecular function. // ID DNA recombination. AC KW-0233 DE Protein involved in DNA recombination, i.e. any process in which DNA DE molecules are cleaved and the fragments are rejoined to give a new DE combination. GO GO:0006310; DNA recombination HI Biological process: DNA recombination. CA Biological process. // ID DNA repair. AC KW-0234 DE Protein involved in the repair of DNA, the various biochemical DE processes by which damaged DNA can be restored. DNA repair embraces, DE for instance, not only the direct reversal of some types of damage DE (such as the enzymatic photoreactivation of thymine dimers), but also DE multiple distinct mechanisms for excising damaged base; termed DE nucleotide excision repair (NER), base excision repair (BER) and DE mismatch repair (MMR); or mechanisms for repairing double-strand DE breaks. GO GO:0006281; DNA repair HI Biological process: DNA damage; DNA repair. CA Biological process. // ID DNA replication. AC KW-0235 DE Protein involved in DNA replication, i.e. the duplication of DNA by DE making a new copy of an existing molecule. The parental double- DE stranded DNA molecule is replicated semi conservatively, i.e. each DE copy contains one of the original strands paired with a newly DE synthesized strand that is complementary in terms of AT and GC base DE pairing. GO GO:0006260; DNA replication HI Biological process: DNA replication. CA Biological process. // ID DNA replication inhibitor. AC KW-0236 DE Protein involved in the inhibition of DNA replication. SY Negative regulation of DNA replication. GO GO:0008156; negative regulation of DNA replication HI Molecular function: DNA replication inhibitor. CA Molecular function. // ID DNA synthesis. AC KW-0237 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of DNA from deoxyribonucleic acid DE monomers. SY DNA biosynthesis; DNA biosynthetic process. GO GO:0071897; DNA biosynthetic process HI Biological process: DNA synthesis. CA Biological process. // ID DNA-binding. AC KW-0238 DE Protein which binds to DNA, typically to pack or modify the DNA, or to DE regulate gene expression. Among those proteins that recognize specific DE DNA sequences, there are a number of characteristic conserved motifs DE believed to be essential for specificity. Many DNA-binding domains are DE described in PROSITE. GO GO:0003677; DNA binding HI Molecular function: DNA-binding. CA Molecular function. // ID DNA-directed DNA polymerase. AC KW-0239 DE Enzyme that catalyzes DNA synthesis by addition of deoxyribonucleotide DE units to a DNA chain using DNA as a template. They can also possess DE exonuclease activity and therefore function in DNA repair. GO GO:0003887; DNA-directed DNA polymerase activity HI Molecular function: Transferase; Nucleotidyltransferase; DNA-directed DNA polymerase. CA Molecular function. // ID DNA-directed RNA polymerase. AC KW-0240 DE Protein of the DNA-directed RNA polymerase complexes, which catalyze DE RNA synthesis the by addition of ribonucleotide units to a RNA chain DE using DNA as a template. They can initiate a chain de novo. DE Prokaryotes have a single enzyme for the three RNA types that is DE subject to stringent regulatory mechanisms. Eukaryotes have type I DE that synthesizes all rRNA except the 5S component, type II that DE synthesizes mRNA and hnRNA and type III that synthesizes tRNA and the DE 5S component of rRNA. GO GO:0000428; DNA-directed RNA polymerase complex HI Biological process: Transcription; DNA-directed RNA polymerase. HI Cellular component: DNA-directed RNA polymerase. CA Cellular component. // IC Domain. AC KW-9994 DE Keywords assigned to proteins because they have at least one specimen DE of a specific domain. // ID Down syndrome. AC KW-0241 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Down's syndrome, a condition due DE to the presence of three copies of chromosome 21 (trisomy 21), DE characterized by some degree of intellectual disability, short stature DE and poor muscle tone. Common (1 in 700 live births); incidence DE increases with maternal age. The cause is usually non-disjunction at DE meiosis but occasionally a translocation of fused chromosomes 21 and DE 14. SY Down's syndrome. HI Disease: Down syndrome. CA Disease. // ID Dwarfism. AC KW-0242 DE Protein which, if defective, causes dwarfism, a skeletal growth defect DE resulting in the condition of being undersized. HI Disease: Dwarfism. CA Disease. // ID Dynein. AC KW-0243 DE Large multimeric complex with ATPase activity, responsible for the DE movement of eukaryotic cilia and flagella (axonemal dynein) and for DE the intracellular retrograde motility of vesicles, organelles and DE chromosomes along microtubules (cytosolic dynein). Constitutes the DE side arms of the outer microtubule doublets in the ciliary axoneme and DE is responsible for the sliding. Also used for the dynein-associated DE microtubule-binding proteins (MTBs), e.g. dynactin. GO GO:0030286; dynein complex HI Cellular component: Dynein. CA Cellular component. // ID Dyskeratosis congenita. AC KW-1011 DE Protein which, if defective, causes dyskeratosis congenita, a DE clinically and genetically heterogeneous disorder characterized by DE abnormal skin pigmentation, mucosal leukoplakia, nail dystrophy, DE progressive bone marrow failure, and increased predisposition to DE cancer. SY DKC. HI Disease: Dyskeratosis congenita. CA Disease. // ID Dystonia. AC KW-1023 DE Protein which, if defective, causes dystonia or dystonic conditions DE that feature persistent or recurrent episodes of dystonia as a major DE manifestation of disease. Dystonia is a movement disorder with a DE neurological basis, due to disordered tonicity of muscle. It is DE characterized by sustained involuntary muscle contractions that cause DE abnormal postures, twisting, repetitive and patterned movements. It DE may affect muscles throughout the body (generalized), in certain parts DE of the body (segmental), or may be confined to particular muscles or DE muscle groups (focal). HI Disease: Dystonia. CA Disease. // ID Dystroglycanopathy. AC KW-1215 DE Protein which, if defective, causes any of the muscular disorders DE caused by aberrant glycosylation of dystroglycan. These genetically DE heterogeneous diseases include a range of conditions with different DE degrees of severity. At the most severe end of the clinical spectrum, DE Walker-Warburg syndrome (WWS), muscle-eye-brain disease (MEB) and DE Fukuyama congenital muscular dystrophy (FCMD) are characterized by DE congenital muscular dystrophy and severe structural brain and eye DE abnormalities, which in WWS result in early infantile death. At the DE mildest end of the clinical spectrum, affected individuals present DE with limb girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD), without brain and eye DE involvement. HI Disease: Dystroglycanopathy. CA Disease. // ID Early protein. AC KW-0244 DE Bacteriophage or viral protein expressed in the first phase of the DE infectious cycle. HI Developmental stage: Early protein. CA Developmental stage. // ID Ectodermal dysplasia. AC KW-0038 DE Protein which, if defective, causes ectodermal dysplasia, a DE heterogeneous group of developmental disorders affecting tissues of DE ectodermal origin. Ectodermal dysplasias are characterized by abnormal DE development of two or more ectodermal structures such as hair, teeth, DE nails and sweat glands, with or without any additional clinical sign. DE Each combination of clinical features represents a different type of DE ectodermal dysplasia. SY ED. HI Disease: Ectodermal dysplasia. CA Disease. // ID EGF-like domain. AC KW-0245 DE Protein containing at least one EGF-like domain, a sequence of about DE thirty to forty amino-acid residues long found in the sequence of DE epidermal growth factor (EGF). It has been shown to be present, in a DE more or less conserved form, in a large number of proteins. The EGF- DE like domain contains six cysteines which form disulfide bonds within DE the domain (C1-C3, C2-C4, C5-C6). HI Domain: EGF-like domain. CA Domain. // ID Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. AC KW-0248 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), a DE genetically and phenotypically heterogeneous group of connective- DE tissue disorders. It affects primarily the skin, ligaments, joints, DE and blood vessels. Typical features include skin hyperextensibility, DE joint hypermobility, easy bruisability, friability of tissues with DE bleeding and poor wound healing. Inheritance can be autosomal DE dominant, autosomal recessive, or X-linked recessive. SY EDS. HI Disease: Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. CA Disease. // ID Electron transport. AC KW-0249 DE Protein involved in the transport of electrons, a process by which DE electrons are transported through a series of reactions from the DE reductant, or electron donor, to the oxidant, or electron acceptor, DE with concomitant energy conversion. Necessary for both photosynthesis DE and aerobic respiration. HI Biological process: Transport; Electron transport. CA Biological process. // ID Elliptocytosis. AC KW-0250 DE Protein which, if defective, causes elliptocytosis, a disorder DE characterized by variable haemolytic anaemia and elliptical red blood DE cell shape. Caused by deficiency/dysfunction of red blood cell DE membrane proteins. HI Disease: Hereditary hemolytic anemia; Elliptocytosis. CA Disease. // ID Elongation factor. AC KW-0251 DE Protein that associates with ribosomes cyclically during the DE elongation phase of protein synthesis, and catalyze formation of the DE acyl bond between the incoming amino-acid residue and the peptide DE chain. SY Translation elongation factor activity. GO GO:0003746; translation elongation factor activity GO GO:0006414; translational elongation HI Biological process: Protein biosynthesis; Elongation factor. HI Molecular function: Elongation factor. CA Molecular function. // ID Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy. AC KW-1067 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, DE a heterogenous group of inherited muscular dystrophy without the DE involvement of nervous system. The disease is characterized by slowly DE progressive muscle weakness, contracture of the elbows, Achilles DE tendon and posterior cervical muscles, and cardiac features. SY Scapuloperoneal muscular dystrophy. HI Disease: Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy. CA Disease. // ID Encapsulin nanocompartment. AC KW-1284 DE Protein located in or on an encapsulin nanocompartment, proteinaceous DE shells that encapsulate enzymes. The selectively permeable, self- DE assembling 25-42 nm shell is made of only 1 protein, unlike the larger DE bacterial microcompartment. The shell protein has an HK97-like fold DE and probably evolved from a viral protein. Artificial encapsulin DE nanocompartments can be expressed and filled with cargo proteins for DE biotechnological uses. They are found in many bacterial and a few DE archaeal phyla. HI Cellular component: Encapsulin nanocompartment. CA Cellular component. // ID Endocytosis. AC KW-0254 DE Protein involved in endocytosis, a process by which extracellular DE materials are taken up into a cell by invagination of the plasma DE membrane to form vesicles enclosing these materials. GO GO:0006897; endocytosis HI Biological process: Endocytosis. CA Biological process. // ID Endonuclease. AC KW-0255 DE Phosphodiesterase capable of cleaving at phosphodiester internal bonds DE within a DNA or RNA substrate. GO GO:0004519; endonuclease activity HI Molecular function: Hydrolase; Nuclease; Endonuclease. CA Molecular function. // ID Endoplasmic reticulum. AC KW-0256 DE Protein whose subcellular location is the endoplasmic reticulum, a DE membrane system continuous with the outer nuclear membrane. It DE consists of flattened, single-membrane vesicles whose inner DE compartments, the cisternae, interconnect to form channels throughout DE the cytoplasm. The rough-surface portion is studded with ribosomes. GO GO:0005783; endoplasmic reticulum HI Cellular component: Endoplasmic reticulum. CA Cellular component. // ID Endorphin. AC KW-0257 DE Morphine-like peptides produced by the brain in response to DE neurotransmitters. They bind to neuron receptors that mediate the DE action of opiates and induce analgesia and sedation. GO GO:0007218; neuropeptide signaling pathway HI Molecular function: Endorphin. CA Molecular function. // ID Endosome. AC KW-0967 DE Protein found in or associated with endosomes. Endosomes are highly DE dynamic membrane systems involved in transport within the cell, they DE receive endocytosed cell membrane molecules and sort them for either DE degradation or recycling back to the cell surface. They also receive DE newly synthesised proteins destined for vacuolar/lysosomal DE compartments. In certain cell types, endosomal multivesicular bodies DE may fuse with the cell surface in an exocytic manner. These released DE vesicles are called exosomes. GO GO:0005768; endosome HI Cellular component: Endosome. CA Cellular component. // ID Enterobactin biosynthesis. AC KW-0259 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of enterobactin, a compound that DE transports iron from the bacterial environment into the cell DE cytoplasm. SY Enterobactin anabolism; Enterobactin biosynthetic process; SY Enterobactin formation; Enterobactin synthesis; SY Enterochelin anabolism; Enterochelin biosynthesis; SY Enterochelin biosynthetic process; Enterochelin formation; SY Enterochelin synthesis. GO GO:0009239; enterobactin biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Enterobactin biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Enterotoxin. AC KW-0260 DE Toxin which, either when ingested or when produced by enterobacteria DE within the intestine, acts on the intestinal mucosa and induces DE diarrhea by perturbing ion and water transport systems. HI Molecular function: Toxin; Enterotoxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Epidermolysis bullosa. AC KW-0263 DE Protein which, if defective, causes epidermolysis bullosa, any of a DE group of mechano-bullous disorders characterized by blistering and/or DE erosion of the skin and mucous membranes which occur spontaneously or DE as a result of mild physical trauma. Traditionally, epidermolysis DE bullosa is divided into three broad categories based on the level of DE tissue separation: in epidermolysis bullosa simplex (EBS), tissue DE separation is intraepidermal and occurs within the basal keratinocytes DE at the bottom layer of epidermis; the junctional forms (JEB) display DE tissue separation within the dermo-epidermal basement membrane DE (basement membrane zone, BMZ), primarily within the lamina lucida; in DE the dystrophic forms (DEB), tissue separation occurs below the lamina DE densa within the upper papillary dermis. Some forms of epidermolysis DE bullosa display tissue separation at the basal cell/lamina lucida DE interface, at the level of the hemidesmosomes (hemidesmosomal DE variants). The hemidesmosomal variants overlap with the traditional DE subtypes, particularly the simplex and junctional forms. In addition DE to skin involvement, various extracutaneous manifestations can be DE associated with distinct subtypes of epidermolysis bullosa. HI Disease: Epidermolysis bullosa. CA Disease. // ID Epilepsy. AC KW-0887 DE Protein which, if defective, causes epilepsy, any of a group of DE disorders characterized by paroxysmal transient disturbances of the DE electrical activity of the brain that may be manifested as episodic DE impairment or loss of consciousness, abnormal motor phenomena, psychic DE or sensory disturbances, or perturbation of the autonomic nervous DE system. Epilepsy is classified as either symptomatic or idiopathic DE according to whether the cause is known or unknown. Both of these DE types can be classified into partial and generalized epilepsy, DE depending on whether the seizures are due to limited or to widespread DE brain lesions, respectively. HI Disease: Epilepsy. CA Disease. // ID ER-Golgi transport. AC KW-0931 DE Protein involved in the 'ER-to-Golgi' transport, a bidirectional DE membrane traffic between the endoplasmic reticulum and the Golgi DE apparatus which mediates the transfer of cargo molecules by means of DE small vesicles or tubular-saccular extensions. SY ER/Golgi transport; ER to Golgi transport; Golgi-to-ER transport. GO GO:0016192; vesicle-mediated transport HI Biological process: Transport; ER-Golgi transport. CA Biological process. // ID ERV. AC KW-0895 DE Protein encoded by proviral genes of endogenous retroviruses. When a DE retrovirus infects a host cell, viral reverse transcriptase (RT) makes DE a DNA copy of the RNA viral genome. The integrated DNA form of a DE retrovirus is referred to as a provirus. Proviral genes are expressed DE by cellular mechanisms. Retroviruses that enter the germline are DE referred to as endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) to distinguish them from DE horizontally transmitted, not passed on to host progeny, "exogenous" DE retroviruses. Amplification of ERV copy number via retrotransposition DE or reinfection has given rise to numerous ERV sequences in the DE vertebrate genomes. As much as 8% of the human genome, and 10% of the DE mouse genome, consists of sequences derived from ERV insertions. SY Endogenous retrovirus; Fossil virus. HI Technical term: ERV. CA Technical term. // ID Erythrocyte maturation. AC KW-0265 DE Protein involved in the maturation of erythrocytes, the predominant DE type of cells present in vertebrate blood and which contain the gas- DE transporting protein, hemoglobin. SY RBC maturation; Red blood cell maturation; SY Red blood corpuscle maturation. GO GO:0043249; erythrocyte maturation HI Biological process: Erythrocyte maturation. CA Biological process. // ID Ethylene biosynthesis. AC KW-0266 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of ethylene (C2H4), an unsaturated DE hydrocarbon gas mainly produced in plants. It has developmental DE effects as a hormone, including growth inhibition, regulation of fruit DE development, leaf abscission and aging. SY Ethylene anabolism; Ethylene biosynthetic process; Ethylene formation; SY Ethylene synthesis. GO GO:0009693; ethylene biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Ethylene biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Ethylene signaling pathway. AC KW-0936 DE Protein involved in the ethylene signaling pathway (e.g. transport and DE signal transduction) that regulates many aspects of plant growth and DE development (e.g. seed germination, root and shoot growth, flower DE development, plant defense, senescence, abscission and ripening). This DE phytohormone can be synthesized from methionin. SY Ethylene mediated signaling pathway. GO GO:0009873; ethylene-activated signaling pathway HI Biological process: Ethylene signaling pathway. CA Biological process. // ID Eukaryotic host gene expression shutoff by virus. AC KW-1262 DE Viral protein which prevents host gene expression by blocking host DE transcription, mRNA export or translation. This gives viral DE transcripts a competitive edge to use the hijacked translation DE machinery. Preventing the expression of host proteins is also a DE strategy to counteract the antiviral response. HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Host gene expression shutoff by virus; Eukaryotic host gene expression shutoff by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Eukaryotic host transcription shutoff by virus. AC KW-1191 DE Viral protein involved in inhibiting host transcription to ensure the DE shutoff of cellular proteins expression and give virus transcripts a DE competitive edge for access to the cellular translation machinery. DE Preventing the expression of host proteins is also a strategy to DE counteract the antiviral response. Inhibition of transcription can be DE performed by interfering with host RNA pol-II function or interfering DE with general transcription factors. GO GO:0039653; suppression by virus of host transcription HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Host gene expression shutoff by virus; Eukaryotic host gene expression shutoff by virus; Eukaryotic host transcription shutoff by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Eukaryotic host translation shutoff by virus. AC KW-1193 DE Viral protein involved in inhibiting the host translational machinery DE to shutoff cellular gene expression. This gives virus transcripts a DE competitive edge to use the hijacked translation machinery. Preventing DE the expression of host proteins is also a strategy to counteract the DE antiviral response. Several virus are known to inhibit host DE translation mostly by inactivating translation factors. GO GO:0039604; suppression by virus of host translation HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Host gene expression shutoff by virus; Eukaryotic host gene expression shutoff by virus; Eukaryotic host translation shutoff by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Evasion of bacteria-mediated translation shutoff by virus. AC KW-1259 DE Viral protein that counteracts the translation shutoff set up by the DE bacterial host in order to inhibit viral replication. This antiviral DE defense system alters a crucial cellular process thereby blocking DE virus multiplication and ending up with host dormancy or even cell DE death. For example, some E.coli strains infected by bacteriophage T4 DE activate an anticodon nuclease which causes depletion of tRNA(Lys) DE and, consequently, abolishes T4 protein synthesis and causes cell DE death. However, this effect is counteracted by the repair of tRNA(Lys) DE in consecutive reactions catalyzed by the viral enzymes polynucleotide DE kinase and RNA ligase. The ToxIN system functions as a toxin-antitoxin DE (TA) tandem which is used as a antiviral defense mechanism. HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Evasion of bacteria-mediated translation shutoff by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Evasion of host immunity by viral interleukin-like protein. AC KW-1125 DE Viral protein sharing sequence homology with host interleukins. DE Interleukins are produced by immune system cells such as lymphocytes, DE macrophages and monocytes, and modulate inflammation and immunity by DE regulating growth, mobility and differentiation of lymphoid and other DE cells. Several viruses encode interleukin-like proteins playing a role DE in immune evasion. Additionally, viral interleukins have been shown to DE activate cellular signaling cascades that enhance virus replication. GO GO:0019049; mitigation of host antiviral defense response HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Evasion of host immunity by viral interleukin-like protein. CA Biological process. // ID Excision nuclease. AC KW-0267 DE Enzyme which excises abnormal or mismatched nucleotides from a DNA DE strand. GO GO:0004518; nuclease activity HI Biological process: DNA damage; DNA repair; Excision nuclease. HI Molecular function: Excision nuclease. CA Molecular function. // ID Exocytosis. AC KW-0268 DE Protein involved in exocytosis, a process by which a material is DE transported out of a cell using a vesicle that first engulfs the DE material and then is extruded through an opening in the cell membrane. DE The exocyst protein complex plays an important role in exocytosis by DE directing exocytic vesicles to their precise sites of fusion in the DE plasma membrane. SY Vesicle exocytosis. GO GO:0006887; exocytosis HI Biological process: Exocytosis. CA Biological process. // ID Exonuclease. AC KW-0269 DE Enzyme that degrades DNA or RNA by progressively splitting off single DE nucleotides from one end of the chain. GO GO:0004527; exonuclease activity HI Molecular function: Hydrolase; Nuclease; Exonuclease. CA Molecular function. // ID Exopolysaccharide synthesis. AC KW-0270 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of exopolysaccharide (EPS), a high DE molecular-weight polymer composed of saccharide subunits. An example DE is succinoglycan (EPS I) of Rhizobium meliloti, that is important for DE invasion of the nodules that it elicits on its host, Medicago sativa. SY EPS anabolism; EPS biosynthesis; EPS biosynthetic process; SY EPS formation; EPS synthesis; Exopolysaccharide anabolism; SY Exopolysaccharide biosynthesis; SY Exopolysaccharide biosynthetic process; Exopolysaccharide formation. GO GO:0000271; polysaccharide biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Exopolysaccharide synthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Exosome. AC KW-0271 DE Protein which is a component of the exosome, a complex of proteins DE that includes 3->5 exoribonucleases and that plays a major role in DE diverse RNA processing and degradation pathways in eukaryotes and DE archaea. GO GO:0000178; exosome (RNase complex) HI Cellular component: Exosome. CA Cellular component. // ID Extinct organism protein. AC KW-0952 DE Protein originating from a species thought to be extinct, i.e. from a DE species for which no known surviving specimens are known to exist. Eg. DE Dodo, Mammoth or Neanderthal. HI Technical term: Extinct organism protein. CA Technical term. // ID Extracellular matrix. AC KW-0272 DE Protein found in the extracellular matrix. The extracellular matrix DE consists of any material produced by cells and secreted into the DE surrounding medium, but this term generally applies to the non- DE cellular components of animal tissues. The extracellular matrix forms DE a supportive meshwork around cells and is largely composed of DE collagen, laminin, fibronectin and glycosaminoglycans. It can DE influence the properties of the cells that it supports. In certain DE tissues, specific modifications to the extracellular matrix occur. For DE instance, the matrix of bone is mineralized to resist compression. GO GO:0031012; extracellular matrix HI Cellular component: Secreted; Extracellular matrix. CA Cellular component. // ID Eye lens protein. AC KW-0273 DE Protein found in the lens, a transparent body at the front of the DE vertebrate eye. GO GO:0005212; structural constituent of eye lens HI Molecular function: Eye lens protein. CA Molecular function. // ID FAD. AC KW-0274 DE Protein involved in flavin adenine dinucleotide synthesis or protein DE which contains at least one FAD as prosthetic group, cofactor DE (flavoprotein) or cosubstrate such as many oxidation-reduction DE enzymes. FAD is an electron carrier molecule that functions as a DE hydrogen acceptor. The generic term "flavin" derives from the Latin DE word flavius ("yellow") because of the brilliant yellow color they DE exhibit as solids and in neutral aqueous solutions. SY Flavin adenine dinucleotide. HI Ligand: Flavoprotein; FAD. CA Ligand. // ID Familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. AC KW-0951 DE Protein which, if defective, causes familial hemophagocytic DE lymphohistiocytosis. FHL is a genetically heterogeneous, autosomal DE recessive disorder characterized by immune dysregulation with DE hypercytokinemia and defective natural killer cell function. The DE clinical features of the disease include fever, hepatosplenomegaly, DE cytopenia, hypertriglyceridemia, hypofibrinogenemia, and neurological DE abnormalities ranging from irritability and hypotonia to seizures, DE cranial nerve deficits and ataxia. Hemophagocytosis is a prominent DE feature of the disease, and non-malignant infiltration of macrophages DE and activated T lymphocytes in lymph nodes, spleen and other organs is DE also found. SY FHL; Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis; HPLH. HI Disease: Familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. CA Disease. // ID Fanconi anemia. AC KW-0923 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Fanconi anemia. Fanconi anemia is DE a rare recessive disorder characterized by progressive pancytopenia, DE hypoplasia of the bone marrow and patchy brown discoloration of the DE skin, due to melanin deposition. It is associated with multiple DE congenital anomalies of the musculoskeletal and genitourinary systems. SY Fanconi pancytopenia. HI Disease: Fanconi anemia. CA Disease. // ID Fatty acid biosynthesis. AC KW-0275 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of fatty acids, long chain organic DE acids of the general formula CH3(CnHx)COOH. They are constituents of DE lipids and can be saturated or unsaturated. The esterified forms are DE important both as energy storage molecules and structural molecules. SY Fatty acid anabolism; Fatty acid biosynthetic process; SY Fatty acid formation; Fatty acid synthesis. GO GO:0006633; fatty acid biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Fatty acid metabolism; Fatty acid biosynthesis. HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Lipid biosynthesis; Fatty acid biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Fatty acid metabolism. AC KW-0276 DE Protein involved in the biochemical reactions with fatty acids. Fatty DE acids are long chain organic acids of the general formula DE CH3(CnHx)COOH. They are constituents of lipids and can be saturated or DE unsaturated. The esterified forms are important both as energy storage DE molecules and structural molecules. SY Fatty acid metabolic process. GO GO:0006631; fatty acid metabolic process HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Fatty acid metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Fertilization. AC KW-0278 DE Protein involved in fertilization, the union of two haploid cells, the DE gametes, to form a diploid cell, the zygote. GO GO:0007338; single fertilization HI Biological process: Fertilization. CA Biological process. // ID Fibrinogenolytic toxin. AC KW-1206 DE Toxin involved in fibrinogen degradation leading to a decrease of DE plasma fibrinogen concentration. Fibrinogenolytic toxins are mostly DE snake venom proteases. HI Molecular function: Toxin; Hemostasis impairing toxin; Fibrinogenolytic toxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Fibrinolysis. AC KW-0280 DE Protein involved in fibrin degradation leading to the dissolving of DE blood clots. GO GO:0042730; fibrinolysis HI Biological process: Hemostasis; Blood coagulation; Fibrinolysis. CA Biological process. // ID Fibrinolytic toxin. AC KW-1205 DE Toxin involved in fibrin degradation leading to the dissolution of DE fibrin clots. Fibrinolytic toxins are mostly snake venom proteases. HI Molecular function: Toxin; Hemostasis impairing toxin; Fibrinolytic toxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Fimbrium. AC KW-0281 DE Protein found in a fimbrium or pilus. A fimbrium or pilus is a hair- DE like, non-flagellar, polymeric filamentous appendage that extend from DE the bacterial or archaeal cell surface, such as type 1 pili, P-pili, DE type IV pili or curli. Pili perform a variety of functions, including DE surface adhesion, motility, cell-cell interactions, biofilm formation, DE conjugation, DNA uptake, and twitching motility. SY Fimbria; Pili; Pilus. GO GO:0009289; pilus HI Cellular component: Fimbrium. CA Cellular component. // ID Fimbrium biogenesis. AC KW-1029 DE Protein which is involved in the formation, organization or DE maintenance of the fimbrium, a long hair-like cell surface appendage. DE The flagellar apparatus consists of the flagellar filament made of DE polymerized flagellin, the hook-like structure near the cell surface DE and a system of rings embedded in the cell enveloppe (the basal body DE or flagellar motor). The basal body and the hook anchor the whip-like DE filament to the cell surface. The flagellum is a rotating structure DE whose switches propels the cell through a liquid medium. SY Fimbria biogenesis; Pili biogenesis; Pilus biogenesis. HI Biological process: Fimbrium biogenesis. CA Biological process. // ID Flagellar rotation. AC KW-0283 DE Protein involved in the movement of the flagella. SY Flagella motility; Flagellar motility; Flagella rotation; SY Flagellum motility; Flagellum rotation. GO GO:0097588; archaeal or bacterial-type flagellum-dependent cell motility HI Biological process: Flagellar rotation. CA Biological process. // ID Flagellum. AC KW-0282 DE Protein present in the flagellum, a long whip-like or feathery DE structure which propels the cell through a liquid medium. This motile DE cilium is produced by unicellular eukaryotes and by the motile male DE gametes of many eukaryotic organisms. The flagella commonly have a DE characteristic axial '9+2' microtubular array (axoneme) and bends are DE generated along the length of the flagellum by restricted sliding of DE the nine outer doublets. SY Flagella; Motile cilia; Motile cilium; Undulipodia; Undulipodium. GO GO:0031514; motile cilium HI Cellular component: Cell projection; Cilium; Flagellum. CA Cellular component. // ID Flavonoid biosynthesis. AC KW-0284 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of flavonoids, polyphenolic DE compounds possessing 15 carbon atoms; two benzene rings joined by a DE linear three carbon chain, a C6-C3-C6 skeleton. C6 presents a benzene DE ring, C3 often is part of of an oxygen-containing ring. Flavonoids are DE coloured phenolic pigments originally considered vitamins (Vitamins P, DE C2) but not shown to have any nutritional role. They are responsible DE for the red/purple colours of many higher plants. SY Flavonoid anabolism; Flavonoid biosynthetic process; SY Flavonoid formation; Flavonoid synthesis. GO GO:0009813; flavonoid biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Flavonoid biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Flavoprotein. AC KW-0285 DE Enzymes which contain one or more flavin nucleotides (FAD or FMN) as DE redox cofactors or cosubstrates. Flavoproteins are involved, for DE example, in the oxidative degradation of pyruvate, fatty acids and DE amino acids, and in the process of electron transport. HI Ligand: Flavoprotein. CA Ligand. // ID Flight. AC KW-0286 DE Protein which stimulates or which is involved in flight, the act of DE passing through the air by the use of wings. SY Flight behavior. GO GO:0007629; flight behavior HI Biological process: Flight. CA Biological process. // ID Flowering. AC KW-0287 DE Protein involved in the transition from vegetative to reproductive DE development in plants. SY Flower development. GO GO:0009908; flower development HI Biological process: Flowering. CA Biological process. // ID FMN. AC KW-0288 DE Protein involved in flavin adenine mononucleotide synthesis or protein DE which contains at least one FMN as prosthetic group/cofactor DE (flavoproteins) or cosubstrate, such as many oxidation-reduction DE enzymes. FMN is an electron carrier molecule that functions as a DE hydrogen acceptor. The generic term "flavin" derives from the Latin DE word flavius ("yellow") because of the brilliant yellow color they DE exhibit as solids and in neutral aqueous solutions. SY Flavin adenine mononucleotide; Flavin mononucleotide; SY Riboflavin 5'-phosphate. HI Ligand: Flavoprotein; FMN. CA Ligand. // ID Folate biosynthesis. AC KW-0289 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of folate, the ionic form of folic DE acid (Latin folium, 'leaf'), first found in spinach leaves. Folate is DE converted in a two-step reduction into its coenzyme form DE tetrahydrofolate, often abbreviated FH4 or THF, which acts as a DE carrier of one-carbon units at several oxidation levels in a variety DE of biosyntheses. SY Folacin anabolism; Folacin biosynthesis; Folacin biosynthetic process; SY Folacin formation; Folacin synthesis; Folate anabolism; SY Folate biosynthetic process; Folate formation; Folate synthesis; SY Folic acid anabolism; Folic acid biosynthesis; SY Folic acid biosynthetic process; Folic acid formation; SY Folic acid synthesis; Pteroylglutamic acid anabolism; SY Pteroylglutamic acid biosynthesis; SY Pteroylglutamic acid biosynthetic process; SY Pteroylglutamic acid formation; Pteroylglutamic acid synthesis. GO GO:0046656; folic acid biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Folate biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Folate-binding. AC KW-0290 DE Protein that binds folate, the ionic form of folic acid. SY Folacin-binding; Folic acid-binding; Pteroylglutamic acid-binding. GO GO:0005542; folic acid binding HI Ligand: Folate-binding. CA Ligand. // ID Formylation. AC KW-0291 DE A protein in which either the N-terminal N-formylmethionine has not DE been processed by the methionyl-tRNA formyltransferase or which is DE posttranslationally modified by the attachment of at least one formyl DE group. SY N-Formylated. HI PTM: Formylation. CA PTM. // ID Fruit ripening. AC KW-0292 DE Protein involved in fruit ripening. The fruit is the matured ovary of DE a plant, enclosing the seed(s). The plant hormone ethylene stimulates DE fruit ripening. GO GO:0009835; fruit ripening HI Biological process: Fruit ripening. CA Biological process. // ID Fruiting body. AC KW-0293 DE Protein involved in fruiting body formation or expressed in fruiting DE bodies, any specialized reproductive structure that produces spores or DE gametes in fungi, slime molds, algae, etc. Fruiting bodies are DE distinct in size, shape and coloration for each species. HI Developmental stage: Fruiting body. CA Developmental stage. // ID Fucose metabolism. AC KW-0294 DE Protein involved in the biochemical reactions with fucose. L-fucose DE (6-deoxy-L-galactose) is present in some algae and identified in the DE chains of glycoproteins; it is the only polysaccharides of certain DE bacterias. SY Fucose metabolic process. GO GO:0006004; fucose metabolic process HI Biological process: Carbohydrate metabolism; Fucose metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Fungicide. AC KW-0295 DE Protein capable of killing or inhibiting growth of fungi. SY Anti-fungal. GO GO:0031640; killing of cells of another organism GO GO:0050832; defense response to fungus HI Molecular function: Antimicrobial; Fungicide. CA Molecular function. // ID Fusion of virus membrane with host cell membrane. AC KW-1169 DE Viral protein involved in the merging of the virus envelope with host DE cytoplasmic membrane during viral penetration into host cell. Virus DE fusion proteins drive this fusion reaction by undergoing a major DE conformational change that is triggered by interactions with the DE target cell. This pathway is used by viruses whose fusion protein is DE usually pH independent such as most paramyxoviruses, herpesviruses and DE retroviruses. MHV-JHM coronavirus has been shown to fuse directly with DE the host cytoplasmic membrane. Prokaryotic viruses such as DE Tectiviridae fuse their inner membrane with the host cytoplasmic DE membrane whereas Cystoviridae fuse their outer membrane with the host DE cytoplasmic membrane. SY Viral entry into host cell via plasma membrane fusion. GO GO:0019064; fusion of virus membrane with host plasma membrane HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Viral penetration into host cytoplasm; Fusion of virus membrane with host membrane; Fusion of virus membrane with host cell membrane. CA Biological process. // ID Fusion of virus membrane with host endosomal membrane. AC KW-1170 DE Viral protein involved in the merging of the virus envelope with host DE endosomal membrane during viral penetration into host cell. Viral DE fusion proteins drive this fusion reaction by undergoing a major DE conformational change that is triggered by interactions with the DE target cell. The specific trigger is mainly endosome acidification DE which induce activation of the fusion protein by conformational DE change. This pathway is used by enveloped viruses which are DE endocytosed and whose fusion protein is usually pH-dependent like DE influenza A virus, rhabdoviruses, bornaviruses, filoviruses, DE asfarviridae, flaviviridae, alphaviruses, HIV-1, avian leukosis virus, DE SARS, 229E, and MHV-2 coronaviruses. SY Viral entry into host cell via plasma membrane fusion. GO GO:0039654; fusion of virus membrane with host endosome membrane HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Viral penetration into host cytoplasm; Fusion of virus membrane with host membrane; Fusion of virus membrane with host endosomal membrane. CA Biological process. // ID Fusion of virus membrane with host membrane. AC KW-1168 DE Viral protein involved in the merging of the virion membrane with a DE host membrane during viral penetration into host cell. Viral fusion DE proteins drive this fusion reaction by undergoing a major DE conformational change that is triggered by interactions with the DE target cell. The specific trigger depends on the virus and can be DE exposure to low pH in the endocytic pathway or interaction of the DE virion with the host receptor(s). In prokaryotic viruses, host-virus DE membrane fusion can occur either at the host outer membrane or plasma DE membrane. Bacteriophages such as cystoviridae fuse their external DE envelope with the host outer membrane, whereas others like DE tectiviridae fuse their inner envelope with the host plasma membrane. SY Viral entry into host cell via membrane fusion. GO GO:0039663; membrane fusion involved in viral entry into host cell HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Viral penetration into host cytoplasm; Fusion of virus membrane with host membrane. CA Biological process. // ID Fusion of virus membrane with host outer membrane. AC KW-1239 DE Viral protein involved in the merging of the virion external lipidic DE membrane (envelope) with the prokaryotic host outer membrane during DE viral penetration into host cell. Bacteriophages such as Cystoviridae DE for example fuse their membrane with the host outer membrane. SY Viral entry into host cell via outer membrane fusion. GO GO:0098997; fusion of virus membrane with host outer membrane HI Cellular component: Virion; Fusion of virus membrane with host outer membrane. HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Viral penetration into host cytoplasm; Fusion of virus membrane with host membrane; Fusion of virus membrane with host outer membrane. CA Biological process. // ID G-protein coupled acetylcholine receptor impairing toxin. AC KW-1214 DE Toxin which interferes with the function of the muscarinic DE acetylcholine receptor (mAChR). The mAChR is a specific class of G- DE protein coupled receptor (GPCR) that binds acetylcholine. These toxins DE are mostly found in snake venoms. SY mAChR regulator; Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor regulator. HI Molecular function: Toxin; G-protein coupled receptor impairing toxin; G-protein coupled acetylcholine receptor impairing toxin. CA Molecular function. // ID G-protein coupled receptor. AC KW-0297 DE Receptors which transduce extracellular signals across the cell DE membrane. At the external side they receive a ligand (a photon in case DE of opsins), and at the cytosolic side they activate a guanine DE nucleotide-binding (G) protein. These receptors are hydrophobic DE proteins that cross the membrane seven times. SY 7TM receptor; GPCR. GO GO:0004930; G protein-coupled receptor activity GO GO:0007186; G protein-coupled receptor signaling pathway HI Molecular function: Receptor; G-protein coupled receptor. HI Molecular function: Transducer; G-protein coupled receptor. CA Molecular function. // ID G-protein coupled receptor impairing toxin. AC KW-1213 DE Toxin which interferes with the function of G-protein coupled DE receptors (GPCRs). These toxins are mostly found in snake and scorpion DE venoms. SY GPCR regulator. HI Molecular function: Toxin; G-protein coupled receptor impairing toxin. CA Molecular function. // ID G0/G1 host cell cycle checkpoint dysregulation by virus. AC KW-1077 DE Viral protein involved in the modulation of host cell cycle DE progression by dysregulating the G0/G1 transition. Some viruses DE benefit from keeping cells in resting state (G0), while others favor DE entry through G1 and subsequent cell division to replicate more DE efficiently. GO GO:0039646; perturbation by virus of host G0/G1 transition checkpoint HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Modulation of host cell cycle by virus; G0/G1 host cell cycle checkpoint dysregulation by virus. CA Biological process. // ID G1/S host cell cycle checkpoint dysregulation by virus. AC KW-1078 DE Viral protein involved in the modulation of host cell cycle DE progression by dysregulating the G1/S transition. Some viruses benefit DE from an arrest in G1 to S phase transition, while others force through DE S phase to favor their own replication. GO GO:0039645; perturbation by virus of host G1/S transition checkpoint HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Modulation of host cell cycle by virus; G1/S host cell cycle checkpoint dysregulation by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Galactitol metabolism. AC KW-0298 DE Protein involved in the biochemical reactions with galactitol. This DE sugar alcohol is derived from galactose. It can be found in certain DE bacteria, yeasts, fungi and plants. In humans, the congenital DE galactosemic cataracts are due to an accumulation of galactitol within DE the lens. SY Dulcitol metabolic process; Dulcitol metabolism; SY Galactitol metabolic process. GO GO:0019402; galactitol metabolic process HI Biological process: Galactitol metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Galactose metabolism. AC KW-0299 DE Protein involved in the biochemical reactions with the monosaccharide DE galactose. This optical isomer (epimer) of glucose is a constituent of DE various oligosaccharides (e.g. lactose, raffinose), polysaccharides DE (e.g. galactans, agar, gum arabic) and also of sphingolipids DE (galactocerebrosides). SY Galactose metabolic process. GO GO:0006012; galactose metabolic process HI Biological process: Carbohydrate metabolism; Galactose metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Gamma-carboxyglutamic acid. AC KW-0301 DE Protein which possesses at least one gamma-carboxyglutamic acid, a DE vitamin K dependent post-translational modification of a glutamate DE residue found in blood coagulation proteins and in the proteins of DE calcified tissues. Gamma-carboxyglutamyl residues are good chelators DE of calcium ions. There are two natural forms of vitamin K, which are DE phylloquinone (vitamin K1 or phytylmenaquinone) in green vegetables DE and menaquinone (vitamin K2 or menaquinone-n, depending of the number DE of isoprene units of the side-chain or MK-n) in intestinal bacteria, DE as well as one synthetic provitamin form, menadione (vitamin K3). In DE infants, the primary symptom of a deficiency of this fat-soluble DE vitamin is a hemorrhagic syndrome. SY 1-carboxyglutamic acid. HI PTM: Gamma-carboxyglutamic acid. CA PTM. // ID Gangliosidosis. AC KW-0331 DE Protein which, if defective, causes gangliosidosis. Gangliosidosis DE defines any of a group of autosomal recessive lysosomal storage DE diseases characterized by the accumulation of gangliosides GM1 or GM2 DE and related glycoconiugates, and by progressive psychomotor DE deterioration. Subtypes include GM1-gangliosidoses and GM2- DE gangliosidoses. HI Disease: Gangliosidosis. CA Disease. // ID Gap junction. AC KW-0303 DE Protein component of gap junctions which are specialized regions of DE the plasma membrane formed by a cluster of channels allowing small DE molecules to diffuse from the cytosol of one cell to that of an DE adjacent cell. A current model of the gap junction consists of a DE cluster of gap-junction channels. Both membranes contain connexon DE hemichannels, composed of a hexamer of an integral membrane protein DE which is often referred to as connexin. The junction of two adjacent DE connexons forms a gap-junction channel. GO GO:0005921; gap junction HI Cellular component: Cell junction; Gap junction. CA Cellular component. // ID Gap protein. AC KW-0302 DE A group of insect proteins which are crucial for the development of DE proper embryonic segmentation. These are the first proteins that DE define the coarsest subdivisions. Generally, gap gene mutations are DE lethal and eliminate a large block of contiguous segments from the DE embryo. GO GO:0035282; segmentation HI Molecular function: Developmental protein; Gap protein. CA Molecular function. // ID Gas vesicle. AC KW-0304 DE Protein of, or involved in synthesis of, gas vesicles. Gas vesicles DE (GV) are hollow, watertight, gas-permeable proteinaceous DE nanostructures found in some microorganisms. During planktonic growth DE they allow positioning of the organism at a favorable depth for light DE or nutrient acquisition. By regulating their relative GV content, DE aquatic microbes can perform vertical migrations. The GV is DE impermeable to liquid water but is highly permeable to gases and is DE normally filled with air. As they scatter light, they may also protect DE against UV light. Two main proteins are present in the gas vesicle: DE GvpA, an extremely hydrophobic protein which makes the ribs that form DE the structure, and GvpC, which binds to the outside of the ribs, helps DE shape GVs and stiffens the structure against collapse. GO GO:0031411; gas vesicle HI Cellular component: Gas vesicle. CA Cellular component. // ID Gaseous exchange. AC KW-0305 DE Protein involved in the exchange of gases. GO GO:0007585; respiratory gaseous exchange by respiratory system HI Biological process: Gaseous exchange. CA Biological process. // ID Gastrulation. AC KW-0306 DE Protein involved in gastrulation, a stage in early embryogenesis in DE which cell movements result in a massive reorganization of the embryo DE from an initially unstructured group of cells, the blastula, into a DE multi-layered organism. During gastrulation, the primary germ layers DE (endoderm, mesoderm, and ectoderm) are formed and organized in their DE proper locations for further development. GO GO:0007369; gastrulation HI Molecular function: Developmental protein; Gastrulation. HI Biological process: Gastrulation. CA Biological process. // ID Gaucher disease. AC KW-0307 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Gaucher disease, the most DE prevalent sphingolipid storage disorder caused by a recessively DE inherited deficiency of the enzyme glucocerebrosidase. Most common in DE Ashkenazi Jews, it is associated with hepatosplenomegaly (enlargement DE of liver and spleen) and, in severe early onset forms of the disease, DE with neurological dysfunction. HI Disease: Gaucher disease. CA Disease. // ID Genetically modified food. AC KW-0308 DE Any protein used in a biotechnological process that results in the DE modification of a naturally occurring food (crop or livestock). DE Examples include proteins introduced to enable herbicide or insect DE resistance or proteins that act in fruit ripening. HI Technical term: Genetically modified food. CA Technical term. // ID Germination. AC KW-0309 DE Protein involved in germination, the physiological and developmental DE changes by a seed, spore, pollen grain (microspore), or zygote that DE occur after release from dormancy, and encompassing events prior to DE and including the first visible indications of growth. HI Biological process: Germination. CA Biological process. // ID Gibberellin signaling pathway. AC KW-0939 DE Protein involved in the gibberellin (GA) signaling pathway (e.g. DE transport and signal transduction) that regulates many aspects of DE plant growth including seed germination, hypocotyl elongation, stem DE elongation, leaf expansion, trichome development, pollen maturation DE and flower and fruit development. GAs are tetracyclic diterpenoid DE phytohormones found in plants, fungi and bacteria. They are named DE GA1....GAn in order of discovery. The term "gibberellin" was first DE given to a substance, produced by the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi, DE which caused overgrowth symptoms in rice. This substance was later DE proven to be a mixture of GAs, with GA1 and GA3 being the active DE factors. SY GA signalling pathway; GA-signalling pathway; SY Gibberellic acid signaling pathway. GO GO:0009740; gibberellic acid mediated signaling pathway HI Biological process: Gibberellin signaling pathway. CA Biological process. // ID Glaucoma. AC KW-0955 DE Protein which, if defective, causes glaucoma, a group of eye diseases DE characterized by pathological changes in the optic disk, progressive DE loss of optic nerve axons and visual field defects. Most of the DE patients with glaucoma have an increased intraocular pressure. The DE disease is painless and often diagnosed at a late stage, when visual DE field defects are severe. Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of DE blindness worldwide. HI Disease: Glaucoma. CA Disease. // ID Gluconate utilization. AC KW-0311 DE Protein involved in the biochemical pathway(s) in which gluconate is DE the carbon source. GO GO:0019521; D-gluconate metabolic process HI Biological process: Gluconate utilization. CA Biological process. // ID Gluconeogenesis. AC KW-0312 DE Protein involved in the biosynthesis of "new" glucose from such DE noncarbohydrate precursors as pyruvate, lactate, certain amino acids DE and intermediates of the tricarboxylic acid cycle. SY Glucose biosynthesis; Glucose biosynthetic process. GO GO:0006094; gluconeogenesis HI Biological process: Gluconeogenesis. CA Biological process. // ID Glucose metabolism. AC KW-0313 DE Protein involved in the biochemical reactions with the 6-carbon aldose DE sugar glucose. SY Glucose metabolic process. GO GO:0006006; glucose metabolic process HI Biological process: Carbohydrate metabolism; Glucose metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Glutamate biosynthesis. AC KW-0314 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of the acidic amino acid glutamate. DE Glutamate is a component of proteins and can also act as a DE neurotransmitter in the central nervous system. SY Glutamate anabolism; Glutamate biosynthetic process; SY Glutamate formation; Glutamate synthesis; Glutamic acid anabolism; SY Glutamic acid biosynthesis; Glutamic acid biosynthetic process; SY Glutamic acid formation; Glutamic acid synthesis. GO GO:0006537; glutamate biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Amino-acid biosynthesis; Glutamate biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Glutamine amidotransferase. AC KW-0315 DE Enzyme that catalyzes the removal of the ammonia group from glutamine DE and transfers it to a substrate to form a new carbon-nitrogen group. DE Glutamine amidotransferase (GATase) domains can occur either as single DE polypeptides or as domains in larger multifunctional proteins. There DE exist two classes of glutamine amidotransferases domains: I and II. SY Glutamine metabolic process. GO GO:0006541; glutamine metabolic process HI Domain: Glutamine amidotransferase. CA Domain. // ID Glutaricaciduria. AC KW-0316 DE Protein which, if defective, causes glutaricaciduria (GA), a metabolic DE disorder characterized by the excretion of glutaric acid in the urine. DE Type I GA is caused by the deficiency of glutaryl-CoA dehydrogenase, a DE mitochondrial enzyme involved in the metabolism of lysine, DE hydroxylysine and tryptophan. Type II GA differs from type I in that DE multiple acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiencies result in a large DE excretion not only of glutaric acid but also of lactic, ethylmalonic, DE butyric, isobutyric, 2-methyl-butyric, and isovaleric acids. GA II can DE result from a deficiency of any one of 3 mitochondrial molecules: the DE alpha and beta subunits of electron transfer flavoprotein and electron DE transfer flavoprotein-ubiquinone oxidoreductase. SY GA; Glutaric aciduria. HI Disease: Glutaricaciduria. CA Disease. // ID Glutathione biosynthesis. AC KW-0317 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of the tripeptide glutathione DE (Gamma-Glu-Cys-Gly). Glutathione sulphydryl group is kept largely in DE the reduced state; this allows it to act as a sulphydryl buffer, DE reducing any disulphide bonds formed within cytoplasmic proteins to DE cysteines. Glutathione is also important as a cofactor for the enzyme DE glutathione peroxidase, in the uptake of amino acids and participates DE in leucotriene synthesis. Glutathione contains an unusual peptide DE linkage between the carboxyl group of the glutamate side chain and the DE amine group of cysteine. SY Glutathione anabolism; Glutathione biosynthetic process; SY Glutathione formation; Glutathione synthesis. GO GO:0006750; glutathione biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Glutathione biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Glutathionylation. AC KW-0318 DE Protein which is posttranslationally modified by the attachment of a DE glutathione molecule by a disulfide bond. SY Glutathionylated. HI PTM: Glutathionylation. CA PTM. // ID Glycation. AC KW-0971 DE Protein containing one or more covalently linked glucose residues, DE resulting from a non-enzymatic spontaneous reaction. The carbohydrate DE is attached to an amino-acid nitrogen atom (e.g. from a lysine side DE chain, or the amino-terminal group). This modification is a side DE effect of diabetes and aging. Glycation is the first step toward the DE formation of advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs). Some AGEs are DE benign, but others are implicated in age-related chronic diseases such DE as: type II diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, Alzheimer's DE disease, etc. SY Glycated. HI PTM: Glycoprotein; Glycation. CA PTM. // ID Glycerol metabolism. AC KW-0319 DE Protein involved in the biochemical reactions with the 3-carbon sugar DE alcohol glycerol. Glycerol is primarily of interest as the central DE structural component of the major classes of biological lipids, DE triglycerides and phosphatidyl phospholipids. It is also an important DE intermediate in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism. SY Glycerol metabolic process. GO GO:0006071; glycerol metabolic process HI Biological process: Glycerol metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Glycogen biosynthesis. AC KW-0320 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of glycogen, a branched polymer of DE D-glucose (mostly -(1-4) linked, but with some -(1-6) linked residues DE at branch points). Glycogen is the major short term storage polymer of DE animal cells and is particularly abundant in liver and to a lesser DE extent in muscles. SY Glycogen anabolism; Glycogen biosynthetic process; Glycogen formation; SY Glycogen synthesis. GO GO:0005978; glycogen biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Glycogen biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Glycogen metabolism. AC KW-0321 DE Protein involved in the biochemical reactions with glycogen, a DE branched polymer of D-glucose (mostly -(1-4) linked, but with some DE - (1-6) linked residues at branch points). Glycogen is the major short DE term storage polymer of animal cells and is particularly abundant in DE liver and to a lesser extent in muscles. SY Glycogen metabolic process. GO GO:0005977; glycogen metabolic process HI Biological process: Carbohydrate metabolism; Glycogen metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Glycogen storage disease. AC KW-0322 DE Protein which, if defective, causes glycogen storage disease, a group DE of inherited metabolic disorders involving the enzymes responsible for DE the synthesis and degradation of glycogen. At least thirteen types of DE this disease have been described. HI Disease: Glycogen storage disease. CA Disease. // ID Glycolate pathway. AC KW-0323 DE Protein involved in the glycolate pathway, synthesis of the amino DE acids serine and glycine from glycolate via a glyoxylate intermediate. SY C2 cycle; Oxidative photosynthetic carbon pathway; SY Photorespiration pathway; Photosynthetic carbon oxydation cycle. GO GO:0009854; oxidative photosynthetic carbon pathway HI Biological process: Glycolate pathway. CA Biological process. // ID Glycolysis. AC KW-0324 DE Protein involved in the anaerobic enzymatic conversion of glucose to DE lactate or pyruvate, resulting in energy stored in the form of DE adenosine triphosphate (ATP), as occurs in skeletal muscle and in DE embryonic tissue. GO GO:0006096; glycolytic process HI Biological process: Glycolysis. CA Biological process. // ID Glycoprotein. AC KW-0325 DE Protein containing one or more covalently linked carbohydrates of DE various types, i.e. from monosaccharides to branched polysaccharides, DE including glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI), glycosaminoglycans DE (GAG). SY Glycosylated. HI PTM: Glycoprotein. CA PTM. // ID Glycosidase. AC KW-0326 DE Hydrolases which attack glycosidic bonds in carbohydrates, DE glycoproteins and glycolipids. The glycosidases are not highly DE specific. Usually they distinguish only the type of bond, e.g. O- or DE N-glycosidic, and its configuration (alpha or beta). GO GO:0008152; metabolic process GO GO:0016798; hydrolase activity, acting on glycosyl bonds HI Molecular function: Hydrolase; Glycosidase. CA Molecular function. // ID Glycosome. AC KW-0327 DE Protein present in the glycosome, a microbody-like organelle found in DE all members of the protist order Kinetoplastida examined. Nine enzymes DE involved in glucose and glycerol metabolism are associated with these DE organelles. These enzymes are involved in pathways which, in other DE organisms, are usually located in the cytosol. GO GO:0020015; glycosome HI Cellular component: Glycosome. CA Cellular component. // ID Glycosyltransferase. AC KW-0328 DE Enzymes that catalyze the transfer of glycosyl (sugar) residues to an DE acceptor, both during degradation (cosubstrates= water or inorganic DE phosphate) and during biosynthesis of polysaccharides, glycoproteins DE and glycolipids. In biosynthetic glycosyl transfers, the common DE activated monomeric sugar intermediate is a nucleoside diphosphate DE sugar. GO GO:0016757; glycosyltransferase activity HI Molecular function: Transferase; Glycosyltransferase. CA Molecular function. // ID Glyoxylate bypass. AC KW-0329 DE Protein involved in the glyoxylate bypass, an alternate route in DE bacteria, plants, and fungi which bypasses the CO2-evolving steps of DE the tricarboxylic acid cycle, thus permiting the utilization of fatty DE acids or acetate, in the form of acetyl-CoA, as sole carbon source, DE particularly for the net biosynthesis of carbohydrate from fatty DE acids. The glyoxylate bypass is especially prominent in plant seeds. SY Glyoxylate cycle. GO GO:0006097; glyoxylate cycle HI Biological process: Glyoxylate bypass. CA Biological process. // ID Glyoxysome. AC KW-0330 DE Protein present in the glyoxysome, a membrane-surrounded plant cell DE organelle, especially found in germinating seeds, and involved in the DE breakdown and conversion of fatty acids to acetyl-CoA for the DE glyoxylate bypass. Since it is also rich in catalase, the glyoxysome DE may be related to the microbodies or peroxisomes or derived from them. GO GO:0009514; glyoxysome HI Cellular component: Glyoxysome. CA Cellular component. // ID GMP biosynthesis. AC KW-0332 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of GMP. GMP is the abbreviation for DE the nucleotide guanosine 5'-monophosphate. SY GMP anabolism; GMP biosynthetic process; GMP formation; GMP synthesis; SY Guanosine 5'-monophosphate anabolism; SY Guanosine 5'-monophosphate biosynthetic process; SY Guanosine 5'-monophosphate formation; SY Guanosine 5'-monophosphate synthesis; Guanylic acid anabolism; SY Guanylic acid biosynthetic process; Guanylic acid formation; SY Guanylic acid synthesis. GO GO:0006177; GMP biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Purine biosynthesis; GMP biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Golgi apparatus. AC KW-0333 DE Protein found in the Golgi apparatus, an organelle present in DE eukaryotic cells that appears as a stack of 6-8 plate-like membranous DE compartments and associated vesicles and vacuoles, often located near DE the centrosome. It has four functionally distinct compartments: cis, DE medial and trans Golgi stacks, and the trans Golgi network (TGN). The DE first three are involved in posttranslational modifications of DE proteins (e.g., N- or O-glycosylation, sulfation, processing of acid DE hydrolases), while the TGN is involved in sorting the proteins to DE their final destination (e.g., to lysosomes, to secretory vesicles, or DE to plasma membrane). SY Golgi complex; Golgi stack. GO GO:0005794; Golgi apparatus HI Cellular component: Golgi apparatus. CA Cellular component. // ID Gonadal differentiation. AC KW-0334 DE Protein involved in gonadal differentiation, the progressive DE restriction of the developmental potential and increasing DE specialization of function which takes place during the embryonic DE development and leads to the formation of gamete-producing glands, DE such as ovary or testis. GO GO:0007506; gonadal mesoderm development HI Biological process: Differentiation; Gonadal differentiation. CA Biological process. // ID Gout. AC KW-0335 DE Protein which, if defective, causes gout, a recurrent acute arthritis DE of peripheral joints caused by the precipitation of monosodium urate DE crystals in articular cartilage. Gout is usually due to overproduction DE of uric acid secondary to an inherited abnormality of purine DE metabolism, but may be a result of urate under-excretion. HI Disease: Gout. CA Disease. // ID GPI-anchor. AC KW-0336 DE Protein bound to the lipid bilayer of a membrane through either a GPI- DE anchor (glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor), a complex oligoglycan DE linked to a phosphatidylinositol group, or a GPI-like-anchor, a DE similar complex oligoglycan linked to a sphingolipidinositol group, DE resulting in the attachment of the C-terminus of the protein to the DE membrane. SY Glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor; SY Glycosylsphingolipidinositol anchor. GO GO:0098552; side of membrane HI PTM: Glycoprotein; GPI-anchor. HI PTM: Lipoprotein; GPI-anchor. HI Cellular component: Membrane; GPI-anchor. CA PTM. // ID GPI-anchor biosynthesis. AC KW-0337 DE Protein involved in the synthesis or the attachment to a protein of a DE GPI-anchor (glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor) or a GPI-like-anchor DE (glycosylsphingolipidinositol anchor), both of which have complex DE oligoglycan linked to a phospholipidinositol molecule that serves to DE attach the C-terminus of some extracellular membrane proteins to the DE lipid bilayer of a membrane. The core glycolipid is composed of a DE tetraglycan: three mannose units and one glucosamine linked to a DE phospholipidinositol. The terminal mannose is linked to the protein DE via an ethanolamine attached to the C-terminal of the mature protein. DE The core structure is conserved from protozoa to humans. There are, DE however, marked differences in the glycosyl side chains attached to DE the core glycolipid. The phospholipid component may be either a DE phosphatide (two long chain fatty acids attached by ester linkage to DE glycerol phosphate) or a sphingolipid (a long chain fatty acid DE attached by amide linkage to a ceramide phosphate). Some yeast and DE Dictyosteliida synthesize the GPI-like anchor de novo, whereas other DE organisms may interconvert the lipid components by a "resculpting" DE process after the anchor is attached to the protein. SY Glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor anabolism; SY Glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor biosynthesis; SY Glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor biosynthetic process; SY Glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor formation; SY Glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor synthesis; GPI-anchor anabolism; SY GPI-anchor biosynthetic process; GPI-anchor formation; SY GPI-anchor synthesis. GO GO:0006506; GPI anchor biosynthetic process HI Biological process: GPI-anchor biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Growth arrest. AC KW-0338 DE Protein involved in growth arrest, a phenomenon occurring when a cell DE does not proceed through the cell cycle. SY Cell cycle arrest; Cellular quiescence. GO GO:0051726; regulation of cell cycle HI Biological process: Cell cycle; Growth arrest. CA Biological process. // ID Growth factor. AC KW-0339 DE Protein which, by binding to a cell-surface receptor, triggers an DE intracellular signal-transduction pathway leading to differentiation, DE proliferation, or other cellular response. GO GO:0008083; growth factor activity HI Molecular function: Growth factor. CA Molecular function. // ID Growth factor binding. AC KW-0340 DE Protein other than a receptor that binds to a cell's growth factor. GO GO:0019838; growth factor binding HI Molecular function: Growth factor binding. CA Molecular function. // ID Growth regulation. AC KW-0341 DE Protein involved in growth regulation, which usually implies the DE control of the rate of division rather than that of the size of an DE individual cell. SY Regulation of cell growth. HI Biological process: Growth regulation. CA Biological process. // ID GTP-binding. AC KW-0342 DE Protein which binds guanosine 5'-triphosphate (GTP), a ribonucleotide DE guanosine (a purine base guanine linked to the sugar D-ribofuranose) DE that carries three phosphate groups esterified to the sugar moiety. SY Guanosine 5'-triphosphate-binding; Guanosine triphosphate-binding. GO GO:0005525; GTP binding HI Ligand: Nucleotide-binding; GTP-binding. CA Ligand. // ID GTPase activation. AC KW-0343 DE GTPase-activating protein (GAP) by itself does not hydrolyze GTP but, DE by binding to a GTPase, accelerates its intrinsic GTPase activity. GO GO:0005096; GTPase activator activity HI Molecular function: GTPase activation. CA Molecular function. // ID Guanine-nucleotide releasing factor. AC KW-0344 DE Protein which catalyzes the release of GDP (guanosine 5'-diphosphate). GO GO:0005085; guanyl-nucleotide exchange factor activity HI Molecular function: Guanine-nucleotide releasing factor. CA Molecular function. // ID HDL. AC KW-0345 DE Protein or apolipoprotein associated with High-Density Lipoproteins DE (HDL), a class of proteins involved in lipid (cholesterol, DE phospholipids and triacylglycerol) metabolism in the body fluids. HDL DE are formed in the liver and are involved in reverse cholesterol DE transport, the transport of cholesterol from peripherical tissues to DE the liver. Apolipoproteins are proteins which are specifically DE associated with lipoproteins, which is not the case for all the DE proteins associated with HDL or with the other lipoprotein classes. GO GO:0034364; high-density lipoprotein particle HI Cellular component: HDL. CA Cellular component. // ID Hearing. AC KW-1009 DE Protein involved in hearing, the special sense by which an organism is DE able to receive an auditory stimulus, convert it to a molecular DE signal, and recognize and characterize the signal. Sonic stimuli are DE detected in the form of vibrations and are processed to form a sound. GO GO:0007605; sensory perception of sound HI Biological process: Hearing. CA Biological process. // ID Helical capsid protein. AC KW-1139 DE Viral protein that forms a helical capsid to protect the viral genome. DE Viral helical capsids are about 7-30 nm in diameter and 200-2000 nm DE long. GO GO:0019029; helical viral capsid HI Cellular component: Virion; Capsid protein; Helical capsid protein. HI Cellular component: Virion; Helical capsid protein. CA Cellular component. // ID Helicase. AC KW-0347 DE Protein with an helicase activity. Helicases are ATPases that catalyze DE the unwinding of double-stranded nucleic acids. They are tightly DE integrated (or coupled) components of various macromolecular complexes DE which are involved in processes such as DNA replication, DE recombination, and nucleotide excision repair, as well as RNA DE transcription and splicing. GO GO:0004386; helicase activity HI Ligand: Nucleotide-binding; ATP-binding; Helicase. HI Molecular function: Hydrolase; Helicase. CA Molecular function. // ID Hemagglutinin. AC KW-0348 DE Protein which causes agglutination of erythrocytes or other cell DE types: In viruses, a protein which is responsible for attaching the DE virus to cell receptors and for initiating infection. HI Molecular function: Hemagglutinin. CA Molecular function. // ID Heme. AC KW-0349 DE Protein containing at least one heme, an iron atom coordinated to a DE protoporphyrin IX. In myoglobin and hemoglobin, one of the DE coordination positions of iron is occupied by oxygen or other ligands, DE such as carbon monoxide. Hemes are also found in cytochromes of the DE electron-transport chain where they bind electrons, in reducing DE peroxides (catalases and peroxidases), and act as terminal components DE in multienzyme systems involved in hydroxylation. Cytochrome c is the DE only common heme protein in which the heme is covalently bound. SY Haeme. HI Ligand: Iron; Heme. HI Ligand: Metal-binding; Heme. CA Ligand. // ID Heme biosynthesis. AC KW-0350 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of heme, an iron atom coordinated to DE a protoporphyrin IX. SY Haeme anabolism; Haeme biosynthesis; Haeme biosynthetic process; SY Haeme formation; Haeme synthesis; Heme anabolism; SY Heme biosynthetic process; Heme formation; Heme synthesis. GO GO:0006783; heme biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Heme biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Hemoglobin-binding. AC KW-0351 DE Protein which binds hemoglobin, a gas-carrying protein found in red DE blood cells. SY Haemoglobin-binding. GO GO:0030492; hemoglobin binding HI Ligand: Hemoglobin-binding. CA Ligand. // ID Hemolymph clotting. AC KW-0353 DE Protein involved in the coagulation of hemolymph, the circulatory DE fluid of invertebrate animals which is functionally comparable to the DE blood and lymph of vertebrates. SY Haemolymph clotting; Hemolymph coagulation. GO GO:0042381; hemolymph coagulation HI Biological process: Hemolymph clotting. CA Biological process. // ID Hemolysis. AC KW-0354 DE Protein involved in hemolysis, the disruption of the integrity of the DE red cell membrane, thus causing the release of hemoglobin. SY Haemolysis. GO GO:0031640; killing of cells of another organism HI Biological process: Cytolysis; Hemolysis. CA Biological process. // ID Hemolytic uremic syndrome. AC KW-1068 DE Protein which, if defective, causes hemolytic uremic syndrome, a DE disorder characterized by non-immune hemolytic anemia, DE thrombocytopenia and renal failure. The vast majority of cases are DE sporadic, occur in young children and are associated with epidemics of DE diarrhea due to bacterial infections. This typical form of the disease DE has a good prognosis and death rate is very low. In contrast to DE typical hemolytic uremic syndrome, atypical forms present without a DE prodrome of enterocolitis and diarrhea and have a poor prognosis, with DE frequent development of end-stage renal disease or death. SY Hemolytic-uremic syndrome; HUS. HI Disease: Hemolytic uremic syndrome. CA Disease. // ID Hemophilia. AC KW-0355 DE Protein which, if defective, causes hemophilia, a genetic disease DE characterized by uncontrollable bleeding due to a sex-linked recessive DE deficiency of blood-clotting factor (usually of Factor VIII). SY Haemophilia. HI Biological process: Hemostasis; Blood coagulation; Hemophilia. HI Disease: Hemophilia. CA Disease. // ID Hemorrhagic toxin. AC KW-1200 DE Toxin which induces the leakage of blood components into tissues by DE damaging endothelial cells or disturbing endothelial cell interactions DE with the basement membrane. Hemorrhagic toxins are mostly found in DE snake venoms. SY Hemorrhagin. HI Molecular function: Toxin; Hemostasis impairing toxin; Hemorrhagic toxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Hemostasis. AC KW-0356 DE Protein involved in the arrest of bleeding through blood clotting and DE contraction of blood vessels. GO GO:0007599; hemostasis HI Biological process: Hemostasis. CA Biological process. // ID Hemostasis impairing toxin. AC KW-1199 DE Toxin which interferes with hemostasis regrouping all mechanisms DE implicated in the cessation of blood loss through damaged vessels. DE Hence, hemostasis impairing toxins not only interfere with platelet DE aggregation, the coagulation cascade, fibrinogen depletion, and fibrin DE clot degradation (fibrinolysis), but also provoke hemorrhage by DE damaging endothelial cells or disturbing their interaction with the DE basement membrane. Numerous snake venom families have the capacity to DE interfere with hemostasis. HI Molecular function: Toxin; Hemostasis impairing toxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Heparan sulfate. AC KW-0357 DE Protein containing at least one heparan sulfate, a highly sulfated DE glycosaminoglycan, closely related to heparin, which consists of DE repeating units of disaccharides composed of iduronic acid, DE glucosamine and N-acetylglucosamine. HI PTM: Glycoprotein; Proteoglycan; Heparan sulfate. CA PTM. // ID Heparin-binding. AC KW-0358 DE Protein which binds heparin, a highly sulfated glycosaminoglycan which DE consists of repeating units of disaccharides composed of D- DE glucosamine, D-glucuronic acid or L-iduronic acid. This anticoagulant DE is found in the granules of mast cells. GO GO:0008201; heparin binding HI Molecular function: Heparin-binding. CA Molecular function. // ID Herbicide resistance. AC KW-0359 DE Protein that confers, on plants, bacteria or other microorganisms, the DE ability to withstand herbicide action. Herbicides are chemicals that DE selectively kill plants. Herbicide resistance occurs usually as a DE result of mutation or amplification of a gene, e.g. 3-phosphoshikimate DE 1-carboxyvinyltransferase. SY Resistance to herbicide. GO GO:0009635; response to herbicide HI Biological process: Herbicide resistance. CA Biological process. // ID Hereditary hemolytic anemia. AC KW-0360 DE Protein which, if defective, causes hereditary hemolytic anemia, a DE hereditary disease characterized by the premature destruction of red DE blood cells. SY Hereditary haemolytic anemia. HI Disease: Hereditary hemolytic anemia. CA Disease. // ID Hereditary multiple exostoses. AC KW-0361 DE Protein which, if defective, causes hereditary multiple exostoses DE (EXT). It is an autosomal dominant disease characterized by the DE formation of cartilage-capped benign tumors (exostoses), developing DE from the juxtaepiphyseal regions of the long bones and often DE accompanied by skeletal deformities and short stature. HI Disease: Hereditary multiple exostoses. CA Disease. // ID Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer. AC KW-0362 DE Protein which, if defective, causes hereditary non-polyposis DE colorectal cancer (HNPCC), also known as Lynch's syndrome. It is an DE autosomal dominant syndrome which confers an increased risk for DE colorectal and endometrial cancers as well as others tumors. DE Clinically, HNPCC is often divided into two subgroups: type I, DE characterized by a hereditary predisposition to colorectal cancer, a DE young age of onset, and carcinoma observed in the proximal colon; type DE II, characterized by an increased risk for cancers in certain tissues DE such as the uterus, ovary, breast, stomach, small intestine, skin, and DE larynx in addition to the colon. SY HNPCC; Lynch's syndrome. HI Disease: Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer. CA Disease. // ID Hereditary spastic paraplegia. AC KW-0890 DE Protein which, if defective, causes hereditary spastic paraplegias DE (HSPs). HSPs are a diverse class of hereditary degenerative spinal DE cord disorders characterized by a slow, gradual, progressive weakness DE and spasticity (stiffness) of the legs. Initial symptoms may include DE difficulty with balance, weakness and stiffness in the legs, muscle DE spasms, and dragging the toes when walking. In some forms of the DE disorder, bladder symptoms (such as incontinence) may appear, or the DE weakness and stiffness may spread to other parts of the body. Rate of DE progression and the severity of symptoms are quite variable. SY HSP. HI Disease: Neurodegeneration; Hereditary spastic paraplegia. CA Disease. // ID Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome. AC KW-0363 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome, a rare DE autosomal recessive disorder characterized by oculocutaneous albinism DE and storage pool deficiency due to an absence of platelet dense DE bodies. Lysosomal ceroid lipofuscinosis, pulmonary fibrosis and DE granulomatous colitis are occasional manifestations of the disease. SY HPS. HI Disease: Albinism; Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome. CA Disease. // ID Heterocyst. AC KW-0364 DE Protein which is implicated in heterocyst formation. A heterocyst is a DE differentiated cyanobacterial cell that carries out nitrogen fixation. DE The heterocysts function as the sites for nitrogen fixation under DE aerobic conditions. They are formed in response to a lack of fixed DE nitrogen (NH4 or NO3). The morphological differentiation is DE accompanied by biochemical alterations. The mature heterocysts contain DE no functional photosystem II and cannot produce oxygen. Instead, they DE contain only photosystem I, which enables them to carry out cyclic DE photophosphorylation and ATP regeneration. These changes provide the DE appropriate conditions for the functioning of the oxygen-sensitive DE nitrogenase. GO GO:0043158; heterocyst development HI Developmental stage: Heterocyst. CA Developmental stage. // ID Heterotaxy. AC KW-1056 DE Protein which, if defective, causes heterotaxy, a broad group of DE disorders caused by failure to correctly establish left-right DE patterning during embryogenesis with consequent abnormal segmental DE arrangements of cardiac chambers, vessels, lungs, and/or abdominal DE organs. Heterotaxy include complex cardiac malformations, situs DE inversus, situs ambiguus, isomerism. Situs inversus indicates complete DE left-right reversal of organ position and is not usually associated DE with structural anomalies. Situs ambiguus is an abnormal arrangement DE of viscera almost invariably associated with complex cardiovascular DE malformations as well as anomalies of the spleen and the DE gastrointestinal system. Isomerism is a defect in asymmetry of paired DE organs that usually have distinct right and left forms, but in this DE condition, are mirror images. SY Heterotaxia; Situs ambiguous; Situs ambiguus; Visceral heterotaxy. HI Disease: Heterotaxy. CA Disease. // ID Hibernation. AC KW-0909 DE Protein involved in the process of hibernation. Hibernation is a state DE of inactivity in an animal brought about by short day lengths, cold DE temperatures and limitations of food. GO GO:0042750; hibernation HI Biological process: Hibernation. CA Biological process. // ID Hirschsprung disease. AC KW-0367 DE Hirschsprung's disease (HSCR); a genetic disorder of neural crest DE development characterized by the absence of intramural ganglion cells DE in the hindgut; often resulting in intestinal obstruction. SY HSCR. HI Disease: Hirschsprung disease. CA Disease. // ID Histidine biosynthesis. AC KW-0368 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of the weakly basic amino acid DE histidine. SY Histidine anabolism; Histidine biosynthetic process; SY Histidine formation; Histidine synthesis. GO GO:0000105; histidine biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Amino-acid biosynthesis; Histidine biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Histidine metabolism. AC KW-0369 DE Protein involved in the biochemical reactions with the weakly basic DE amino acid histidine. SY Histidine metabolic process. GO GO:0006547; histidine metabolic process HI Biological process: Histidine metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Holoprosencephaly. AC KW-0370 DE A clinically variable and genetically heterogeneous malformation in DE which the developing forebrain fails to correctly separate into right DE and left hemispheres. In its most severe form (alobar DE holoprosencephaly), the forebrain consists of a single ventricle, and DE midbrain structures may be malformed as well. In the most extreme DE cases, anophthalmia or cyclopia is evident along with a congenital DE absence of the mature nose. In milder forms (semilobar or lobar DE holoprosencephaly), rudimentary midline structures are present. The DE less severe form features facial dysmorphia characterized by ocular DE hypertelorism, defects of the upper lip and/or nose, and absence of DE the olfactory nerves or corpus callosum. The majority of cases are DE sporadic, although families with both autosomal dominant and autosomal DE recessive holoprosencephaly have been described. HI Disease: Holoprosencephaly. CA Disease. // ID Homeobox. AC KW-0371 DE Protein which contains at least one homeobox, a conserved sequence DE originally detected, on the nucleotide level, in many of the genes DE which give rise to homeotic and segmentation mutants in Drosophila. DE The homeobox, also termed homeodomain, consists of about 60 amino DE acids and is involved in DNA-binding. SY Homeodomain. GO GO:0003677; DNA binding HI Domain: Homeobox. CA Domain. // ID Hormone. AC KW-0372 DE Protein which functions as a hormone, a biochemical substance secreted DE by specialized cells that affects the metabolism or behavior of other DE cells which possess functional receptors for the hormone. Hormones may DE be hydrophilic, like insulin, in which case the receptors are on the DE cell surface, or lipophilic, like the steroids, where the receptor can DE be intracellular. GO GO:0005179; hormone activity HI Molecular function: Hormone. CA Molecular function. // ID Host cell inner membrane. AC KW-1030 DE Protein found in or associated with the prokaryotic host cell inner DE membrane, a selectively permeable membrane which separates the host DE cytoplasm from the host periplasm in prokaryotes with 2 membranes. SY Host inner membrane. GO GO:0020002; host cell plasma membrane HI Cellular component: Membrane; Host membrane; Host cell membrane; Host cell inner membrane. CA Cellular component. // ID Host cell junction. AC KW-1031 DE Protein found in or associated with a host cell junction, a host cell- DE host cell or host cell-host extracellular matrix contact within a DE tissue of a host multicellular organism, especially abundant in host DE epithelia. In vertebrates, there are three major types of cell DE junctions: anchoring junctions (e.g. adherens junctions), DE communicating junctions (e.g. gap junctions) and occluding junctions DE (e.g. tight junctions). GO GO:0044156; host cell junction HI Cellular component: Host cell junction. CA Cellular component. // ID Host cell lysis by virus. AC KW-0578 DE Viral protein involved in the lysis of the host cell allowing the DE release of mature, newly formed virions. Viruses use different way to DE lyse their host cell. They can express viroporins as Adenoviridae or DE Picornaviridae do in the late phase of infection. Phycodnaviridae for DE their part seem to express lytic phospholipids. In dsDNA prokaryotic DE viruses, lysis-specific proteins are expressed: a holin, which DE permeabilizes the inner membrane and an endolysin which then gains DE access to and degrades the host peptidoglycans. Some bacterioviruses DE express a signal-containing endolysin and thus do not need the holin DE function. GO GO:0044659; viral release from host cell by cytolysis HI Biological process: Cytolysis; Host cell lysis by virus. HI Biological process: Viral release from host cell; Host cell lysis by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Host cell membrane. AC KW-1032 DE Protein found in or associated with the host cytoplasmic membrane, a DE selectively permeable membrane which separates the cytoplasm from its DE surroundings. Known as the host cell inner membrane in prokaryotes DE with 2 membranes. SY Host cytoplasmic membrane; Host plasmalemma; Host plasma membrane. GO GO:0020002; host cell plasma membrane HI Cellular component: Membrane; Host membrane; Host cell membrane. CA Cellular component. // ID Host cell outer membrane. AC KW-1033 DE Protein found in or associated with the prokaryotic cell outer DE membrane, a selectively permeable membrane which separates the DE prokaryotic periplasm from its surroundings in prokaryotes with 2 DE membranes. Traditionally only Gram-negative bacteria were thought of DE as having an outer membrane, but recent work has shown some DE Actinobacteria, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis, as well as at DE least 1 archaea (Ignicoccus hospitalis) have a cell outer membrane. SY Host outer membrane. GO GO:0020002; host cell plasma membrane HI Cellular component: Membrane; Host membrane; Host cell outer membrane. CA Cellular component. // ID Host cell projection. AC KW-1034 DE Protein found in or associated with a host cell projection, a host DE cell protrusion such as pseudopodium, filopodium, lamellipodium, DE growth cone, flagellum, acrosome, axon, pili or bacterial comet tail. DE These membrane-cytoskeleton-coupled processes are involved in many DE biological functions, such as host cell motility, cancer-cell DE invasion, endocytosis, phagocytosis, exocytosis, pathogen infection, DE neurite extension and cytokinesis. SY Host cell protrusion. GO GO:0044157; host cell projection HI Cellular component: Host cell projection. CA Cellular component. // ID Host cell receptor for virus entry. AC KW-1183 DE Cell surface protein used by a virus as an attachment and entry DE receptor. In some cases, binding to a cellular receptor is not DE sufficient for infection: an additional cell surface molecule, or DE coreceptor, is required for entry. Some viruses are able to use DE different receptors depending on the target cell type. In prokaryotic DE viruses, cell receptor for virus entry can also be localized on host DE outer membrane, pilus or flagellum. SY Viral receptor activity. GO GO:0001618; virus receptor activity HI Molecular function: Receptor; Host cell receptor for virus entry. CA Molecular function. // ID Host cytoplasm. AC KW-1035 DE Protein found in the host cytoplasm, the content of a host cell within DE the plasma membrane and, in eukaryotics cells, surrounds the host DE nucleus. GO GO:0030430; host cell cytoplasm HI Cellular component: Host cytoplasm. CA Cellular component. // ID Host cytoplasmic vesicle. AC KW-1036 DE Protein found in or associated with host cytoplasmic vesicles, which DE mediate vesicular transport among the organelles of host secretory and DE endocytic systems. GO GO:0044161; host cell cytoplasmic vesicle HI Cellular component: Host cytoplasmic vesicle. CA Cellular component. // ID Host cytoskeleton. AC KW-1037 DE Protein which is a component or which is associated with the host DE cytoskeleton, a dynamic three-dimensional structure that fills the DE host cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells. It is responsible for cell DE movement, cytokinesis, and the organization of the organelles or DE organelle-like structures within the host cell. GO GO:0044163; host cytoskeleton HI Cellular component: Host cytoplasm; Host cytoskeleton. CA Cellular component. // ID Host endoplasmic reticulum. AC KW-1038 DE Protein whose subcellular location is the host endoplasmic reticulum DE (ER), which is an extensive network of membrane tubules, vesicles and DE flattened cisternae (sac-like structures) found throughout the DE eukaryotic host cell, especially those responsible for the production DE of hormones and other secretory products. GO GO:0044165; host cell endoplasmic reticulum HI Cellular component: Host endoplasmic reticulum. CA Cellular component. // ID Host endosome. AC KW-1039 DE Protein found in or associated with host endosomes, which are highly DE dynamic membrane systems involved in transport within the host cell, DE they receive endocytosed host cell membrane molecules and sort them DE for either degradation or recycling back to the host cell surface. DE They also receive newly synthesised proteins destined for host DE vacuolar/lysosomal compartments. GO GO:0044174; host cell endosome HI Cellular component: Host endosome. CA Cellular component. // ID Host G2/M cell cycle arrest by virus. AC KW-1079 DE Viral protein involved in the modulation of host cell cycle by DE inhibiting the G2/M transition. A variety of viruses have been DE associated with G2/M arrest, including some DNA viruses, some RNA DE viruses and retroviruses but the mechanisms by which arrest is DE achieved greatly differs between those viruses. GO GO:0039592; perturbation by virus of G2/M transition of host mitotic cell cycle HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Modulation of host cell cycle by virus; Host G2/M cell cycle arrest by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Host gene expression shutoff by virus. AC KW-1190 DE Viral protein which prevents host gene expression by blocking for DE example host transcription, mRNA export or translation. This gives DE virus transcripts a competitive edge to use the hijacked translation DE machinery. Preventing the expression of host proteins is also a DE strategy to counteract the antiviral response. GO GO:0039657; suppression by virus of host gene expression HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Host gene expression shutoff by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Host Golgi apparatus. AC KW-1040 DE Protein found in the host Golgi apparatus, a series of flattened, DE cisternal membranes and similar vesicles usually arranged in close DE apposition to each other to form stacks. In mammalian cells, the host DE Golgi apparatus is juxtanuclear, often pericentriolar. The stacks are DE connected laterally by tubules to create a perinuclear ribbon DE structure, the 'Golgi ribbon'. In plants and lower animal cells, the DE host Golgi exists as many copies of discrete stacks dispersed DE throughout the host cytoplasm. It is a polarized structure with, in DE most higher eukaryotic cells, a cis-face associated with a tubular DE reticular network of membranes facing the endoplasmic reticulum, the DE cis-Golgi network (CGN), a medial area of disk-shaped flattened DE cisternae, and a trans-face associated with another tubular reticular DE membrane network, the trans-Golgi network (TGN) directed toward the DE host plasma membrane and compartments of the host endocytic pathway. SY Host apparatus golgiensis; Host complexus golgiensis; Host Golgi; SY Host Golgi complex. GO GO:0044177; host cell Golgi apparatus HI Cellular component: Host Golgi apparatus. CA Cellular component. // ID Host lipid droplet. AC KW-1041 DE Protein characteristic of host lipid droplet, a dynamic cytoplasmic DE host organelle which consists of an heterogeneous macromolecular DE assembly of lipids and proteins covered by a unique phospholipid DE monolayer. They may play a role in host lipid metabolism and storage, DE and they may be involved in the regulation of intracellular DE trafficking and signal transduction. SY Host adiposome; Host lipid bodies; Host lipid body; SY Host lipid particle; Host monolayer-surrounded lipid storage body; SY Host oil bodies; Host oil body; Host oleosome; Host spherosome. GO GO:0044186; host cell lipid droplet HI Cellular component: Host lipid droplet. CA Cellular component. // ID Host lysosome. AC KW-1042 DE Protein found in the host lysosome, a membrane-limited organelle DE present in all eukaryotic cells, which contains a large number of DE hydrolytic enzymes that are used for degrading almost any kind of DE cellular constituent, including entire organelles. The mechanisms DE responsible for delivering cytoplasmic cargo to the host DE lysosome/vacuole are known collectively as autophagy and play an DE important role in the maintenance of homeostasis. GO GO:0044187; host cell lysosome HI Cellular component: Host lysosome. CA Cellular component. // ID Host membrane. AC KW-1043 DE Protein which is membrane-bound or membrane-associated with the host DE membrane, a lipid bilayer which surrounds host enclosed spaces and DE compartments. This selectively permeable structure is essential for DE effective separation of a host cell or organelle from its DE surroundings. GO GO:0033644; host cell membrane HI Cellular component: Membrane; Host membrane. CA Cellular component. // ID Host microsome. AC KW-1044 DE Protein found in host microsomes, which are a heterogenous set of DE vesicles 20-200 nm in diameter and formed from the host endoplasmic DE reticulum when host cells are disrupted. GO GO:0033648; host intracellular membrane-bounded organelle HI Cellular component: Host endoplasmic reticulum; Host microsome. CA Cellular component. // ID Host mitochondrion. AC KW-1045 DE Protein encoded by or localized in the host mitochondrion, a DE semiautonomous, self-reproducing organelle that occurs in the DE cytoplasm of all cells of most, but not all, host eukaryotes. Each DE host mitochondrion is surrounded by a double limiting membrane. The DE inner membrane is highly invaginated, and its projections are called DE cristae. They are the sites of the reactions of oxidative DE phosphorylation, which result in the formation of ATP. GO GO:0033650; host cell mitochondrion HI Cellular component: Host mitochondrion. CA Cellular component. // ID Host mitochondrion inner membrane. AC KW-1046 DE Protein found in or associated with the host mitochondrion inner DE membrane, the membrane which separates the host mitochondrial matrix DE from the host mitochondrial intermembrane space. SY Host inner mitochondrial membrane; Host mitochondrial inner membrane. GO GO:0044192; host cell mitochondrial inner membrane HI Cellular component: Membrane; Host membrane; Host mitochondrion inner membrane. HI Cellular component: Host mitochondrion; Host mitochondrion inner membrane. CA Cellular component. // ID Host mitochondrion outer membrane. AC KW-1047 DE Protein found in or associated with the host mitochondrion outer DE membrane, the host mitochondrial membrane facing the host cytoplasm. SY Host mitochondrial outer membrane; Host outer mitochondrial membrane. GO GO:0044193; host cell mitochondrial outer membrane HI Cellular component: Membrane; Host membrane; Host mitochondrion outer membrane. HI Cellular component: Host mitochondrion; Host mitochondrion outer membrane. CA Cellular component. // ID Host mRNA suppression by virus. AC KW-1192 DE Viral protein involved in suppressing host mRNAs expression to DE maximize expression of viral mRNAs. Decimating cellular mRNAs DE eventually leads to shutoff of host proteins expression and gives DE virus transcripts a competitive edge for access to the cellular DE translation machinery. Preventing the expression of host proteins is DE also a strategy to counteract the antiviral response. Suppression of DE host mRNA can be performed by interfering with host pre-mRNA DE processing function (splicing or polyadenylation), by degrading mRNAs DE or blocking their export from the nucleus to the cytoplasm. HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Host gene expression shutoff by virus; Eukaryotic host gene expression shutoff by virus; Host mRNA suppression by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Host nucleus. AC KW-1048 DE Protein located in the host nucleus, which is the most obvious DE organelle in any host eukaryotic cell. It is a membrane-bound DE organelle and is surrounded by double membranes. It communicates with DE the surrounding cytosol via numerous nuclear pores. GO GO:0042025; host cell nucleus HI Cellular component: Host nucleus. CA Cellular component. // ID Host periplasm. AC KW-1049 DE Protein located in the host periplasm, the space between the inner and DE outer membrane in host Gram-negative bacteria. In Gram-positive DE bacteria a smaller periplasmic space is found between the inner DE membrane and the peptidoglycan layer. Also used for the host DE intermembrane spaces of host fungi and host organelles. SY Host periplasmic space. GO GO:0044229; host cell periplasmic space HI Cellular component: Host periplasm. CA Cellular component. // ID Host synapse. AC KW-1051 DE Protein located in the host synapse, the communicating cell-cell DE junctions that allow signals to pass from a host nerve cell to a host DE target cell. In a chemical synapse, the signal is carried by a DE neurotransmitter which diffuses across a narrow synaptic cleft and DE activates a receptor on the postsynaptic membrane of the target cell. GO GO:0044221; host cell synapse HI Cellular component: Host synapse. CA Cellular component. // ID Host thylakoid. AC KW-1050 DE Protein located in or on the host thylakoid, a membranous cellular DE structure containing the photosynthetic pigments, reaction centers and DE electron-transport chain. In host chloroplast, thylakoids stack up to DE form the grana or stay as single cisternae and interconnect the grana. DE Thylakoid, where photosynthesis occurs, are found in chloroplasts, DE cyanelles and in photosynthetic bacteria where they are the extensive DE invaginations of the plasma membrane. GO GO:0044159; host thylakoid HI Cellular component: Host thylakoid. CA Cellular component. // ID Host-virus interaction. AC KW-0945 DE Viral or cellular protein involved in a host-virus interaction. DE Viruses interact with many cellular pathways to achieve their DE replication cycle. Entry into the host cell, transport to the viral DE replication sites or viral exit from the host cell are all steps that DE require specific interactions between the virus and its host. DE Additionally, the evasion from the host immune response requires a lot DE of viral proteins to associate with and inhibit cellular proteins with DE antiviral functions. HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction. CA Biological process. // ID Hyaluronic acid. AC KW-0373 DE Protein which binds hyaluronic acic, an acidic glycosaminoglycan which DE consists of repeating units of the disaccharide composed of D- DE glucuronic acid and N-acetyl-D-glucosamine. This linear polymer is DE present in cell coats and in the extracellular ground substance of the DE connective tissues of vertebrates; it also occurs in the synovial DE fluid in joints and in the vitreous humor of the eye. GO GO:0005540; hyaluronic acid binding HI Ligand: Hyaluronic acid. CA Ligand. // ID Hybridoma. AC KW-0374 DE Protein sequenced from a hybridoma, an artificially produced hybrid DE cell line created by fusion of a lymphocyte and a myeloma cell. These DE cells can multiply indefinitely in culture and produce monoclonal DE antibodies. HI Technical term: Hybridoma. CA Technical term. // ID Hydrogen ion transport. AC KW-0375 DE Protein involved in the transport of hydrogen ions across a membrane. DE Used to power processes such as ATP synthesis and bacterial flagellar DE rotation. SY Hydrogen cation transport; Proton transport. GO GO:1902600; proton transmembrane transport HI Biological process: Transport; Ion transport; Hydrogen ion transport. CA Biological process. // ID Hydrogen peroxide. AC KW-0376 DE Protein involved in hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) decomposition, e.g., DE catalase. H(2)O(2) is generated by the body as a byproduct of aerobic DE cellular respiration. GO GO:0042744; hydrogen peroxide catabolic process HI Molecular function: Oxidoreductase; Peroxidase; Hydrogen peroxide. HI Biological process: Hydrogen peroxide. CA Biological process. // ID Hydrogenosome. AC KW-0377 DE Protein characteristic of the hydrogenosome, a redox organelle of DE anaerobic unicellular eukaryotes which contains hydrogenase and DE produces hydrogen and ATP by glycolysis. They are found in various DE unrelated eukaryotes, such as anaerobic flagellates, chytridiomycete DE fungi and ciliates. Most hydrogenosomes lack a genome, but some like DE that of the anaerobic ciliate Nyctotherus ovalis, have retained a DE rudimentary genome. GO GO:0042566; hydrogenosome HI Cellular component: Hydrogenosome. CA Cellular component. // ID Hydrolase. AC KW-0378 DE Enzyme which catalyzes hydrolysis reaction, i.e. the addition of the DE hydrogen and hydroxyl ions of water to a molecule with its consequent DE splitting into two or more simpler molecules. GO GO:0016787; hydrolase activity HI Molecular function: Hydrolase. CA Molecular function. // ID Hydroxylation. AC KW-0379 DE Protein which is posttranslationally modified by the attachment of at DE least one hydroxyl (-OH) group. SY Hydroxylated. HI PTM: Hydroxylation. CA PTM. // ID Hyperlipidemia. AC KW-0380 DE Protein which, if defective, causes hyperlipidemia, a condition DE characterized by the elevation of lipids in the bloodstream. There are DE different types of hyperlipidemias: type I (lipoprotein lipase DE deficiency), IIa (hypercholesterolemia; LDL receptor deficiency), IIb DE (combined hyperlipidemia), III (dysbetalipoproteinemia), IV DE (hypertriglyceridemia) and V (mixed hyperlipidemia). HI Disease: Hyperlipidemia. CA Disease. // ID Hypersensitive response. AC KW-0381 DE Protein involved in hypersensitive response, a complex and early DE defense response that causes necrosis and cell death to restrict the DE growth of a pathogen. Local and systemic biochemical changes include DE generation of active oxygen species (oxidative burst), cell death, DE overproduction of lignin-related materials, and the induction of DE certain proteins such as pathogen related (PR) proteins. SY HR. GO GO:0009626; plant-type hypersensitive response HI Biological process: Plant defense; Hypersensitive response. CA Biological process. // ID Hypersensitive response elicitation. AC KW-0928 DE Proteins involved in hypersensitive response (HR) elicitation. HR is a DE rapid defense-associated programmed cell death of plant cells at the DE site of invasion. GO GO:0034053; symbiont-mediated perturbation of host defense-related programmed cell death HI Biological process: Hypersensitive response elicitation. CA Biological process. // ID Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. AC KW-1016 DE Protein which, if defective, causes hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, a DE disorder characterized by a deficiency of the pituitary secretion of DE follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH). DE Affected individuals present with absent or impaired sexual DE development due to sex-steroid-hormone deficiency, low serum levels of DE the pituitary gonadotropins FSH and LH, and infertility. SY HH; Idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism; IHH; SY Isolated hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. HI Disease: Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. CA Disease. // ID Hypotensive agent. AC KW-0382 DE Protein which can cause hypotension, i.e. low blood pressure or a DE sudden drop in blood pressure. SY Antihypertensive agents. GO GO:0008217; regulation of blood pressure HI Molecular function: Hypotensive agent. CA Molecular function. // ID Hypotrichosis. AC KW-1063 DE Protein which, if defective, causes hypotrichosis, a condition DE characterized by reduced pilosity over the body and scalp (with DE sparse, thin, and short hair). HI Disease: Hypotrichosis. CA Disease. // ID Hypusine. AC KW-0385 DE Protein which is posttranslationally modified on at least one lysine DE residue to form hypusine (N-epsilon-(4-aminobutyl)lysine). This DE spermidine-dependent reaction is catalyzed by deoxyhypusine synthase DE and deoxyhypusine hydroxylase. eIF-5A is the only protein in DE eukaryotes and archaebacteria known to contain hypusine. HI PTM: Hypusine. CA PTM. // ID Hypusine biosynthesis. AC KW-0386 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of hypusine, an amino acid formed by DE the two posttranslational steps in the modification of a lysine: (i) DE deoxyhypusine synthase catalyzes the transfer of a 4-aminobutyl moiety DE from spermidine to a specific lysine residue to form a deoxyhypusine DE residue, N-epsilon-(4-aminobutyl)lysine, and (ii) deoxyhypusine DE hydroxylase catalyzes the hydroxylation of the deoxyhypusine residue DE to form hypusine (N-epsilon-(4-amino-2-hydroxybutyl)lysine). SY Hypusine anabolism; Hypusine biosynthetic process; Hypusine formation; SY Hypusine synthesis. GO GO:0008612; peptidyl-lysine modification to peptidyl-hypusine HI Biological process: Hypusine biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Ice nucleation. AC KW-0387 DE Protein which promotes the nucleation of ice. The proteins catalyzes DE the formation of ice crystals in extracellular fluid at relatively DE high temperatures (up to -2 degrees Celsius) to protect the organism DE from damage by intracellular ice formation. GO GO:0050825; ice binding HI Molecular function: Ice nucleation. CA Molecular function. // ID Ichthyosis. AC KW-0977 DE Protein which, if defective, causes ichthyosis, any of a group of DE cutaneous disorders characterized by increased or aberrant DE keratinization and resulting in non-inflammatory scaling of the skin. DE Most ichthyoses are genetically determined, while some may be acquired DE and develop in association with various systemic diseases or be a DE prominent feature in certain genetic syndromes. HI Disease: Ichthyosis. CA Disease. // ID IFIT mRNA restriction evasion by virus. AC KW-1196 DE Viral protein allowing host innate defense evasion by methylating the DE first and second ribonucleotide of viral mRNAs (cap1 and cap2). These DE methylations allow viral RNA to escape cellular antiviral process DE mediated by host IFIT proteins which degrade non cap1-methylated DE mRNAs. Also prevents IFIH1/MDA5 sensor activation by cap0 mRNAs, which DE would trigger interferon beta synthesis. GO GO:0039699; viral mRNA cap methylation HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus; IFIT mRNA restriction evasion by virus. CA Biological process. // ID IgA-binding protein. AC KW-0388 DE Protein binding to immunoglobulin A, the major class of antibodies DE found in external secretions such as saliva, tears, gastric fluid, DE milk and mucosal secretions. GO GO:0019862; IgA binding HI Molecular function: IgA-binding protein. CA Molecular function. // ID IgE-binding protein. AC KW-0389 DE Protein binding to immunoglobulin E, the antibody class involved in DE local inflammatory reactions, reactions to parasites, and also in DE allergic responses. GO GO:0019863; IgE binding HI Molecular function: IgE-binding protein. CA Molecular function. // ID IgG-binding protein. AC KW-0390 DE Protein binding to immunoglobulin G, the main type of immunoglobulin DE produced towards the end of a primary immune response and in a DE secondary response. GO GO:0019864; IgG binding HI Molecular function: IgG-binding protein. CA Molecular function. // ID Immunity. AC KW-0391 DE Protein involved in immunity, any immune system process that functions DE in the response of an organism to a potential internal or invasive DE threat. The vertebrate immune system is formed by the innate immune DE system (composed of phagocytes, complement, antimicrobial peptides, DE etc) and by the adaptive immune system which consists of T- and B- DE lymphocytes. SY Immune response. GO GO:0002376; immune system process HI Biological process: Immunity. CA Biological process. // ID Immunoglobulin. AC KW-1280 DE A glycoprotein produced in membrane-bound or secreted form by B DE lymphocytes. The basic structural unit of an immunoglobulin (Ig) is DE composed of two identical covalently linked heavy chains and two DE identical light chains. Both the heavy chains and light chains contain DE a series of repeating homologous structural units called Ig domains. DE The N-terminal variable regions of the heavy and light chains form the DE antigen binding sites, whereas the C-terminal constant regions of the DE heavy chains interact with other molecules in the immune system. The DE membrane-bound antibodies serve as receptors that mediate the antigen- DE triggered activation of B cells. Secreted antibodies function as DE mediators of specific humoral immunity by engaging various effector DE mechanisms that serve to eliminate the bound antigen. SY Antibody. GO GO:0019814; immunoglobulin complex HI Biological process: Immunity; Adaptive immunity; Immunoglobulin. HI Cellular component: Immunoglobulin. CA Cellular component. // ID Immunoglobulin domain. AC KW-0393 DE A globular structural motif found in many proteins of the immune DE system, including immunoglobulins (Igs), T cell receptors (TCRs) and DE major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules. Ig domains are DE approximately 110 amino acid residues in length, include an internal DE disulfide bond, and contain two layers of beta-pleated sheets, each DE layer composed of three to five strands of antiparallel polypeptide DE chains. Ig domains are classified as V-like or C-like on the basis of DE closest homology to either Ig V or C domains. SY Immunoglobulin fold. HI Domain: Immunoglobulin domain. CA Domain. // ID Inflammasome. AC KW-1271 DE Component of the inflammasome complex involved in innate immunity and DE inflammation. Inflammasomes are supramolecular micron-sized complexes DE that assemble in the cytosol adjacent to the nucleus in response to DE pathogens and other damage-associated signals. The core of DE inflammasomes consists of at least 2 components: a signal sensor and DE an effector inflammatory caspase (mostly CASP1). However, most DE inflammasomes contain a third element, an adaptor (often ASC/PYCARD). DE In response to a danger signal, the sensor homooligomerizes and DE interacts with the adaptor that polymerizes and forms a platform to DE recruit caspase precursors. This results in increased local DE concentration of the enzyme, leading to trans-autocleavage and DE activation. Active caspases process proinflammatory IL1B and IL18 DE cytokine precursors, which are then secreted in the extracellular DE milieu and induce inflammatory responses. In adaptor-independent DE inflammasomes, the sensor directly recruits the caspase. Additional DE proteins may interaction with the core complex. Inflammasomes also DE induce pyroptosis, an inflammatory form of programmed cell death. SY ASC focus; ASC speck. GO GO:0061702; canonical inflammasome complex HI Cellular component: Cytoplasm; Inflammasome. CA Cellular component. // ID Inflammatory response. AC KW-0395 DE Protein involved in the localized protective response to tissue DE damage, microbial infection, or the presence of foreign matter. It is DE characterized by swelling, redness, heat and pain and involves a DE complex series of events including vascular changes and accumulation DE of blood cells, such as neutrophil leucocytes and mononuclear DE phagocytes, at the site of injury. SY Response to inflammation. GO GO:0006954; inflammatory response HI Biological process: Inflammatory response. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of eukaryotic host transcription initiation by virus. AC KW-1111 DE Viral protein involved in the disruption of the host transcriptional DE machinery. Viruses have evolved ways of interacting with the cellular DE preinitiation complex (PIC) to shutoff host transcription initiation. DE For example, the TATA binding protein and TFIIH are targeted by some DE viral proteins and thus cannot assemble properly to form a functional DE PIC. GO GO:0039602; suppression by virus of host transcription initiation from RNA polymerase II promoter HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Host gene expression shutoff by virus; Eukaryotic host gene expression shutoff by virus; Eukaryotic host transcription shutoff by virus; Inhibition of eukaryotic host transcription initiation by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of eukaryotic host translation factors by virus. AC KW-1075 DE Viral protein that inhibits or degrades host translation initiation DE factor(s). Viruses have evolved ways of interacting with the cellular DE translational machinery to shutoff host gene expression. This global DE inhibition of cellular protein synthesis serves to ensure maximal DE viral gene expression and to evade host immune response. Some viruses DE are known to cleave host translation initiation factors like EIF3 or DE EIF4G, while others achieve translation inhibition by promoting DE dephosphorylation of some host translation initiation factors or their DE binding partners. GO GO:0039606; suppression by virus of host translation initiation HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Host gene expression shutoff by virus; Eukaryotic host gene expression shutoff by virus; Eukaryotic host translation shutoff by virus; Inhibition of eukaryotic host translation factors by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host adaptive immune response by virus. AC KW-1080 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of host adaptive immune DE response. Upon infection, the innate immune system provides mechanisms DE for the rapid sensing and elimination of viruses. Adaptive immunity DE has evolved to provide a broader and more finely tuned repertoire of DE recognition for both self- and nonself-antigens. In vertebrates, the DE adaptive immune response is mediated by T and B lymphocytes expressing DE specific receptors. A lot of viruses escape the adaptive immune DE response by different mechanisms including interference with the DE presentation of antigenic peptides at the surface of infected cells. DE Bacteria and archaea have adaptive immunity, the CRISPR-Cas system. GO GO:0039504; suppression by virus of host adaptive immune response HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host adaptive immune response by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host apoptosis by viral BCL2-like protein. AC KW-1081 DE Viral protein sharing sequence similarity with host BCL2 protein. DE Cellular BCL2 family members are divided in two groups, some having DE anti-apoptotic activity (such as BCL2 itself) while others have pro- DE apoptotic function (such as BAX). If the level of proapoptotic members DE are higher than inhibitors, then the cell undergoes apoptosis. So far, DE all viral homologues display anti-apoptotic activity. GO GO:0019050; suppression by virus of host apoptotic process HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Modulation of host cell apoptosis by virus; Inhibition of host apoptosis by viral BCL2-like protein. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host apoptosis by viral FLIP-like protein. AC KW-1082 DE Viral protein sharing sequence similarity with host FLIPs (FLICE- DE inhibitory proteins). Cellular FLIPs play an essential role in DE apoptosis functioning as a link between cell survival and cell death DE pathways . Viral FLIPs inhibit apoptosis by interfering with death DE receptor signaling. GO GO:0019050; suppression by virus of host apoptotic process HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Modulation of host cell apoptosis by virus; Inhibition of host apoptosis by viral FLIP-like protein. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host autophagy by virus. AC KW-1083 DE Viral protein involved in the inhibition of host autophagy. Autophagy DE is a major intracellular pathway in the delivery of cytoplasmic DE material to lysosomes for degradation. It is also essential for the DE removal of pathogenic protein aggregates from the cell during DE infection. Several viruses including influenza and HIV-1 block DE autophagosome maturation by interacting with and inhibiting host DE Beclin-1, an essential protein playing a central role in autophagy. GO GO:0039521; suppression by virus of host autophagy HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Inhibition of host autophagy by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host caspases by virus. AC KW-1085 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of host cell apoptosis by DE inhibiting host caspases. Many viruses from diverse families have DE evolved mechanisms to evade or delay cell death by suppressing the DE activity of cytoplasmic proteases termed caspases which have a central DE role in apoptosis induction. GO GO:0019050; suppression by virus of host apoptotic process HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Modulation of host cell apoptosis by virus; Inhibition of host caspases by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host chemokines by virus. AC KW-1086 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of host immune response by DE inhibiting chemokines. Chemokines have several roles including Th1/Th2 DE differentiation, T_cell costimulation, or promotion of leukocyte DE migration. Due to the importance of chemokines in immunity, viruses DE have evolved mechanisms to counter the chemokine network. They encode DE chemokine-like proteins, chemokine receptors, or chemokine-binding DE proteins to inhibit cellular chemokines. GO GO:0042785; evasion of host immune response via modulation of host cytokine network HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host chemokines by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host complement factors by virus. AC KW-1087 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of host humoral response by DE inhibiting the complement factors. The activation of complement DE involves the sequential proteolyis of proteins to generate enzymes DE with catalytic activities. The biological functions of the complement DE include opsonization, inflammation, lysis of immune complexes, or DE enhancement of the humoral immune response. Some herpesviruses, DE poxviruses and retroviruses mimic or interact with complement DE regulatory proteins to block complement activation and neutralization DE of virus particles. GO GO:0039573; suppression by virus of host complement activation HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host complement factors by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host DNA replication by virus. AC KW-1248 DE Viral protein that blocks host DNA replication without inhibiting host DE transcription or translation. Inhibiting host replication provides an DE advantage during the virus life cycle by reducing or eliminating DE competing host macromolecular synthesis. Bacteriophage N4 for example DE is known to shut off the host DNA replication while the host genome DE remains structurally intact. Bacteriophage lambda prevents host DNA DE replication initiation and Staphylococcus bacteriophages target the DE replicative DNA polymerase processivity clamp and the helicase. GO GO:0098673; inhibition of host DNA replication by virus HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Modulation of host cell cycle by virus; Inhibition of host DNA replication by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host IKBKE by virus. AC KW-1224 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of host innate defenses by DE inhibiting the IKBKE/IKK-epsilon kinase. Upon viral infection, the DE DDX58/RIG-I or IFIH1/MDA5 receptors recognize foreign material and DE transmit the signal to downstream components MAVS and IKBKE. In turn, DE the IKBKE kinase phosphorylates and activates IRF3 and/or IRF7. Once DE phosphorylated, IRF3 and IRF7 translocate into the nucleus to drive DE transcription of interferons. Several viruses including arenaviruses DE or ebola virus interact directly with and inhibit IKBKE/IKK-epsilon to DE prevent IRFs activation. GO GO:0039724; suppression by virus of host viral-induced cytoplasmic pattern recognition receptor signaling pathway via inhibition of IKBKE activity HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus; Inhibition of host RLR pathway by virus; Inhibition of host IKBKE by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus. AC KW-1090 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of host innate immune response. DE Upon viral infection, the innate immune system initially defends the DE host in a non-specific manner. Many viral proteins interact with and DE inhibit components the host innate system to replicate more DE efficiently. In metazoans and plants, the innate immune system DE includes the intracellular pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) that DE detect pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs). In plants and DE invertebrates, it includes the RNA interference (RNAi) system. Plants DE also have effector-triggered immunity (ETI). In metazoans, it includes DE the cell-dependent mechanisms (e.g. phagocytes) or secreted factors. DE Bacteria and archaea have an innate immune system relying on various DE systems (e.g. the restriction-modification system, Pycsar). GO GO:0039503; suppression by virus of host innate immune response HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host interferon receptors by virus. AC KW-1091 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of the interferon pathway by DE inhibiting interferon receptors. Interferon signaling exerts antiviral DE effects through cell surface receptors termed interferon receptors. In DE response to binding of extracellular interferons, they activate the DE JAK/STAT pathway causing transcriptional activation of IFN-regulated DE genes. To avoid this antiviral response, several viruses target the DE interferon receptors and send them to degradation via the proteasome. GO GO:0140886; suppression by virus of host interferon-mediated signaling pathway HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus; Interferon antiviral system evasion; Inhibition of host interferon signaling pathway by virus; Inhibition of host interferon receptors by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host interferon signaling pathway by virus. AC KW-1114 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of host innate defense by DE inhibiting the interferon signaling pathway leading to the production DE of interferon-induced genes. Interferons bind to the IFN receptors DE (IFNAR) on the cell surface and activate Jak/Tyk kinases. These DE kinases phosphorylate STAT1 and STAT2 that translocate to the nucleus DE and induce the expression of interferon stimulated genes (ISGs). Many DE viruses interact with components of this pathway to prevent expression DE of ISGs and inhibit the host immune response. GO GO:0039502; suppression by virus of host type I interferon-mediated signaling pathway HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus; Interferon antiviral system evasion; Inhibition of host interferon signaling pathway by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host IRF3 by virus. AC KW-1092 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of host innate defense by DE inhibiting the interferon regulatory factor-3 (IRF3) protein. Viral DE infection triggers the phosphorylation and activation of IRF3. The DE activated IRF3 migrates to the nucleus, where it complexes with the DE transcription coactivator CREBBP/EP300, leading to the transcriptional DE activation of the IFN-alpha and IFN-beta genes. Several viral proteins DE directly bind to IRF3 and inhibit its transcriptional activity while DE others target it to the proteasome for degradation. GO GO:0039548; suppression by virus of host viral-induced cytoplasmic pattern recognition receptor signaling pathway via inhibition of IRF3 activity HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus; Inhibition of host RLR pathway by virus; Inhibition of host IRF3 by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host IRF7 by virus. AC KW-1093 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of host innate defense by DE inhibiting the interferon regulatory factor-7 (IRF7) protein. Viral DE infection triggers the phosphorylation and activation of IRF7. The DE activated IRF7 migrates to the nucleus leading to the transcriptional DE activation of the IFN-alpha and IFN-beta genes. Some viral proteins DE prevent IRF7 phosphorylation and nuclear activation. Ebola virus VP35 DE interacts with IRF7 and hijacks the cellular SUMOylation machinery for DE its advantage to increase IRF7 SUMOylation thereby disabling its DE activity. GO GO:0039557; suppression by virus of host viral-induced cytoplasmic pattern recognition receptor signaling pathway via inhibition of IRF7 activity HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus; Inhibition of host RLR pathway by virus; Inhibition of host IRF7 by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host IRF9 by virus. AC KW-1094 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of the type I and III interferon DE pathway by inhibiting the interferon regulatory factor-9 (IRF9) DE protein. Viral infection triggers the phosphorylation and activation DE of IRF9. The activated IRF9 migrates to the nucleus leading to the DE transcriptional activation of several hundred IFN-responsive genes. DE Some viral proteins inhibit IRF9 activation by preventing its nuclear DE localization upon infection or by sending it to the nucleus in an DE inactive state. GO GO:0039560; disruption by virus of host JAK-STAT cascade via inhibition of host IRF9 activity HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus; Interferon antiviral system evasion; Inhibition of host interferon signaling pathway by virus; Inhibition of host IRF9 by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host ISG15 by virus. AC KW-1095 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of host immune defense by DE inhibiting the ISG15 protein, an ubiquitin-like modifier playing DE important roles in the innate immune response. Like ubiquitin, ISG15 DE is conjugated to lysines on numerous target proteins through its DE conserved C-terminal region. Viruses escape from the antiviral DE activity of ISG15 by direct interaction or by cleavage of ISG15 DE derivatives. GO GO:0039579; suppression by virus of host ISG15-protein conjugation HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus; Interferon antiviral system evasion; Inhibition of host interferon signaling pathway by virus; Inhibition of host ISG15 by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host JAK1 by virus. AC KW-1096 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of the type I, II and III DE interferon pathways by inhibiting the JAK1 protein. Upon viral DE infection, JAK1 is activated by the interferon-alpha/beta, -gamma, and DE -lambda signal transduction pathways. Several viral proteins can DE directly interact with JAK1 to prevent its ability to phosphorylate DE the downstream partners STAT1 or STAT2. GO GO:0039576; disruption by virus of host JAK-STAT cascade via inhibition of JAK1 activity HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus; Interferon antiviral system evasion; Inhibition of host interferon signaling pathway by virus; Inhibition of host JAK1 by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host MAVS by virus. AC KW-1097 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of host innate defense by DE inhibiting the MAVS protein. During viral replication, dsRNA is DE produced and detected by DDX58/RIG-I or IFIH1/MDA5 that will activate DE MAVS to coordinate pathways leading to induction of antiviral DE cytokines. Several viral proteins including NS3/4A from Hepatitis C, DE or protease 3C from hepatitis A virus, cleave MAVS to abrogate its DE activity. GO GO:0039545; suppression by virus of host viral-induced cytoplasmic pattern recognition receptor signaling pathway via inhibition of MAVS activity HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus; Inhibition of host RLR pathway by virus; Inhibition of host MAVS by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host MDA5 by virus. AC KW-1089 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of host innate defense by DE inhibiting the IFIH1/MDA5 protein. Upon recognition of long viral DE dsRNAs, IFIH1/MDA5 initiates an antiviral signaling cascade by DE interacting with downstream partners. Some viral proteins including DE paramyxovirus V proteins interact with IFIH1/MDA5 and blocks its DE binding with its downstream partner MAVS. GO GO:0039554; suppression by virus of host viral-induced cytoplasmic pattern recognition receptor signaling pathway via inhibition of host MDA-5 activity HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus; Inhibition of host RLR pathway by virus; Inhibition of host MDA5 by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host MHC class I molecule presentation by virus. AC KW-1115 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of host adaptive immune response DE by inhibiting the presentation of loaded MHC class I molecules at the DE cell surface. Many viruses 'intercept' the loaded MHC class I DE molecules and retain them in the endoplasmic reticulum or target them DE to degradation in order to prevent presentation of the peptides at the DE cell surface. GO GO:0046776; suppression by virus of host antigen processing and presentation of peptide antigen via MHC class I HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host adaptive immune response by virus; Inhibition of host MHC class I molecule presentation by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host MHC class II molecule presentation by virus. AC KW-1116 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of host adaptive immune response DE by inhibiting the presentation of loaded MHC class II molecules at the DE cell surface. MHC class II molecules are found only on a few DE specialized cells termed professional antigen-presenting cells (APCs). DE This group includes macrophages, dendritic cells and B-cells. Many DE viruses 'intercept' the loaded MHC class II molecules and retain them DE in the endoplasmic reticulum or target them to degradation in order to DE prevent presentation of the peptides at the cell surface. GO GO:0039505; suppression by virus of host antigen processing and presentation of peptide antigen via MHC class II HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host adaptive immune response by virus; Inhibition of host MHC class II molecule presentation by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host mitotic exit by virus. AC KW-1098 DE Viral protein involved in the inhibition of host cell cycle DE progression by preventing cells to exit mitosis. GO GO:0039593; peturbation by virus of host exit from mitosis HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Modulation of host cell cycle by virus; Inhibition of host mitotic exit by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host mRNA nuclear export by virus. AC KW-1099 DE Viral protein involved in the disruption of the mRNA nuclear export DE machinery. Viruses have evolved ways of interacting with the nuclear DE export machinery to inhibit cellular translation and maximize the DE expression of their own mRNAs. This global inhibition of cellular DE protein synthesis serves to ensure maximal viral gene expression and DE to evade host immune response. GO GO:0039522; suppression by virus of host mRNA export from nucleus HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Host gene expression shutoff by virus; Eukaryotic host gene expression shutoff by virus; Host mRNA suppression by virus; Inhibition of host mRNA nuclear export by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host NF-kappa-B by virus. AC KW-1100 DE Viral protein involved in the inhibition of host NF-kappa-B. This DE protein is a pleiotropic transcription factor which is present in DE almost all cell types and is involved in many biological processes DE such as inflammation, immunity, differentiation, cell growth, DE tumorigenesis and apoptosis. Many viruses have developed strategies to DE inhibit the NF-kappa-B pathway in order to evade host immunity and DE inhibit production of proinflammatory cytokines. GO GO:0039644; suppression by virus of host NF-kappaB cascade HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Inhibition of host NF-kappa-B by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host PKR by virus. AC KW-1102 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of the interferon pathway by DE inhibiting the interferon induced PKR/EIF2AK2 protein. During viral DE replication of RNA viruses, dsRNA is produced leading to the DE activation of the PKR/EIF2AK2 kinase. Once activated, PKR/EIF2AK2 DE autophosphorylates and catalyzes the phosphorylation of many DE substrates including the translation initiation factor EIF2S1, leading DE to the inhibition of the initiation of protein synthesis. Several DE viral proteins prevent PKR/EIF2AK2 activation by direct interaction DE while others target PKR/EIF2AK2 to degradation. GO GO:0030291; protein serine/threonine kinase inhibitor activity GO GO:0039580; suppression by virus of host PKR signaling HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus; Interferon antiviral system evasion; Inhibition of host interferon signaling pathway by virus; Inhibition of host PKR by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host poly(A)-binding protein by virus. AC KW-1101 DE Viral protein involved in the inhibition of host translation by DE inhibiting the poly(A)-binding protein PABPC1. Viruses have evolved DE ways of interacting with the host translational machinery to shutoff DE host gene expression. This global inhibition of cellular protein DE synthesis serves to ensure maximal viral gene expression and to evade DE host immune response. One common target is the translation initiation DE factor PABPC1. Some viruses proteolytically cleave PABPC1, while DE others displace PABPC1 from EIF4G1. GO GO:0039604; suppression by virus of host translation HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Host gene expression shutoff by virus; Eukaryotic host gene expression shutoff by virus; Eukaryotic host translation shutoff by virus; Inhibition of host poly(A)-binding protein by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host pre-mRNA processing by virus. AC KW-1103 DE Viral protein involved in the disruption of host pre-mRNA processing. DE Viruses have evolved ways of interacting with the cellular RNA DE splicing machinery and regulate splicing of cellular pre-mRNAs as a DE part of the mechanism for shutting down the synthesis of host DE proteins. This global inhibition of cellular protein synthesis serves DE to ensure maximal viral gene expression and to evade host immune DE response. GO GO:0039524; suppression by virus of host mRNA processing HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Host gene expression shutoff by virus; Eukaryotic host gene expression shutoff by virus; Host mRNA suppression by virus; Inhibition of host pre-mRNA processing by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host proteasome antigen processing by virus. AC KW-1117 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of host adaptive immune response DE by inhibiting MHC class I peptide antigen generation by the DE proteasome. The processing of foreign proteins leads to the DE presentation of viral peptides by MHC class I molecules to cytotoxic T DE lymphocytes and triggers immune response. Several viral proteins have DE evolved mechanisms to avoid synthesis of antigenic peptide by the DE proteasome. Epstein-Barr virus EBNA-1 for example contains an internal DE repeat exclusively composed of glycines and alanines that inhibits its DE proteasomal degradation. GO GO:0039588; suppression by virus of host antigen processing and presentation HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host adaptive immune response by virus; Inhibition of host proteasome antigen processing by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host RIG-I by virus. AC KW-1088 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of host innate defense by DE inhibiting the DDX58/RIG-I protein. Upon recognition of viral RNA, the DE cytosolic receptor DDX58/RIG-I initiates an antiviral signaling DE cascade by interacting with downstream partners. Several viral DE proteins inhibit DDX58/RIG-I via direct interaction while others via DE proteolytic cleavage. GO GO:0039540; suppression by virus of host viral-induced cytoplasmic pattern recognition receptor signaling pathway via inhibition of host RIG-I activity HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus; Inhibition of host RLR pathway by virus; Inhibition of host RIG-I by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host RLR pathway by virus. AC KW-1113 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of host innate defense by DE inhibiting the DDX58/RIG-I-like receptor (RLR) pathway leading to the DE triggering of interferon-mediated response. This pathway starts with DE the recognition of viral RNA by host proteins including DDX58/RIG-I or DE IFIH1. Then, the signal is transmitted through MAVS and TRAFs leading DE to the activation and nuclear localization of transcription factors DE IRF3 and IRF7 to induce IFNalpha/beta transcription and protein DE production. Many viruses interact with components of this pathway to DE inhibit production of interferons and establishment of the antiviral DE state. GO GO:0039532; negative regulation of viral-induced cytoplasmic pattern recognition receptor signaling pathway HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus; Inhibition of host RLR pathway by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host RNA polymerase II by virus. AC KW-1104 DE Viral protein involved in the disruption of the host RNA polymerase DE II. Many viruses induce alterations in the cellular gene expression. DE Among these, shutoff of host transcription by targeting RNA polymerase DE II is commonly used. Indeed, many viruses are able to modify RNAP II DE CTD including Herpes virus, HIV, Epstein-Barr virus or Bunyamwera DE virus. GO GO:0039523; suppression by virus of host mRNA transcription via inhibition of RNA polymerase II activity HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Host gene expression shutoff by virus; Eukaryotic host gene expression shutoff by virus; Eukaryotic host transcription shutoff by virus; Inhibition of host RNA polymerase II by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host STAT1 by virus. AC KW-1105 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of the type I, II and III DE interferon pathways by inhibiting the STAT1 protein. Upon viral DE infection, STAT1 is activated by IFN-gamma, IFN-alpha/beta, or IFN- DE lambda that bind to specific cell surface receptors. While IFN-gamma DE induces STAT1 homodimerization, IFN-alpha/beta and IFN-lambda DE stimulate heterodimerization of STAT1 and STAT2, both leading to STAT1 DE nuclear localization and subsequent induction of IFN-stimulated genes. DE Many viruses interfere with STAT1 activation, often by preventing DE STAT1 phosphorylation and nuclear localization. GO GO:0039563; disruption by virus of host JAK-STAT cascade via inhibition of STAT1 activity HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus; Interferon antiviral system evasion; Inhibition of host interferon signaling pathway by virus; Inhibition of host STAT1 by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host STAT2 by virus. AC KW-1106 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of type I and III interferon DE pathways by inhibiting STAT2 protein. Upon viral infection, STAT2 is DE activated by IFN-alpha/beta or IFN-lambda that bind to specific cell DE surface receptors. In turn, IFN-alpha/beta (or IFN-lambda) induces DE heterodimerization of STAT1 and STAT2 by phosphorylation, leading to DE STAT2 nuclear localization and subsequent induction of IFN-stimulated DE genes. Many viruses interfere with STAT2 activation, often by DE preventing STAT2 phosphorylation and nuclear localization. GO GO:0039564; disruption by virus of host JAK-STAT cascade via inhibition of STAT2 activity HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus; Interferon antiviral system evasion; Inhibition of host interferon signaling pathway by virus; Inhibition of host STAT2 by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host TAP by virus. AC KW-1107 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of host adaptive immune response DE by inhibiting the TAP complex. Transporter associated with antigen DE (TAP), composed of two subunits TAP1 and TAP2, is required for the DE translocation of peptides into the ER, where they are loaded onto MHC DE class I. Thereafter, the viral peptides are presented to cytotoxic T DE lymphocytes at the cell surface and trigger immune response. The DE loading of peptide on MHC by TAP is targeted by several viruses DE including herpesviruses and retroviruses. GO GO:0039588; suppression by virus of host antigen processing and presentation HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host adaptive immune response by virus; Inhibition of host TAP by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host tapasin by virus. AC KW-1108 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of host adaptive immune response DE by inhibiting the tapasin/TAPBP protein. tapasin/TAPBP is a type I DE transmembrane protein essential for the optimal expression of stable DE MHC class I molecules on host cell surface. Its helps the MHC class I DE molecules to remain in a peptide receptive state, avoiding DE irreversible denaturation. Several retroviruses and DNA viruses encode DE proteins interacting with tapasin/TAPBP and inhibiting its activity. GO GO:0046776; suppression by virus of host antigen processing and presentation of peptide antigen via MHC class I HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host adaptive immune response by virus; Inhibition of host tapasin by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host TBK1 by virus. AC KW-1223 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of host innate defenses by DE inhibiting the TBK1 kinase. Upon viral infection, Toll-like receptors DE (TLRs) or DNA recognition receptors recognize foreign material and DE transmit the signal to TBK1 that in turn phosphorylates and activates DE IRF3 and IRF7. Once phosphorylated, IRF3 and/or IRF7 translocate into DE the nucleus to drive transcription of interferons. Several viruses DE including herpes simplex virus 1 or vaccinia virus interact directly DE with and inhibit TBK1 to prevent IRFs activation. GO GO:0039723; suppression by virus of host viral-induced cytoplasmic pattern recognition receptor signaling pathway via inhibition of TBK1 activity HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus; Inhibition of host TLR pathway by virus; Inhibition of host TBK1 by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host tetherin by virus. AC KW-1084 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of host immune defense by DE inhibiting the BST2/tetherin protein. BST2/tetherin is an alpha DE interferon-inducible cellular factor that impairs the release of many DE enveloped viruses, including human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV- DE 1), HIV-2, as well as other retroviruses. Several viruses manage to DE circumvent the antiviral activity of BST2/tetherin either by sending DE BST2/tetherin to degradation (HIV-1) or by lowering the presence of DE BST2 on cell surfaces (HIV-2). GO GO:0039587; suppression by virus of host tetherin activity HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus; Inhibition of host tetherin by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host TLR pathway by virus. AC KW-1225 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of host innate defenses by DE inhibiting the Toll-like recognition receptor (TLR) pathway. This DE pathway usually starts with the recognition of viruses by host TLRs DE including TLR3 or TLR4. Then, the signal is transmitted through MYD88 DE (or TRIF) and then to TBK1 leading to the activation and nuclear DE localization of transcription factors IRF3 and/or IRF7 to induce DE IFNalpha/beta transcription and production of proinflammatory DE cytokines through activation of the NF-kappaB signaling pathway. Many DE viruses interact with components of this pathway to inhibit production DE of interferons and establishment of the antiviral state. GO GO:0039722; suppression by virus of host toll-like receptor signaling pathway HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus; Inhibition of host TLR pathway by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host TRAFs by virus. AC KW-1110 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of host innate defense by DE inhibiting TRAF proteins. After viral infection, the cellular DE signaling pathway leading to production of interferons is activated DE and several TRAF family members including TRAF2, TRAF3, and TRAF5 DE participate in this cascade. Many viruses encode protein able to DE interact with TRAF members to inhibit their antiviral activity. GO GO:0039527; disruption by virus of host TRAF-mediated signal transduction HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus; Inhibition of host RLR pathway by virus; Inhibition of host TRAFs by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Inhibition of host TYK2 by virus. AC KW-1112 DE Viral protein involved in the evasion of the type I and III interferon DE pathways by inhibiting the host TYK2 protein. Upon viral infection, DE the TYK2 protein is activated by IFNalpha/beta or IFN-lambda DE stimulation leading to a series of phosphorylation events that induce DE transcription of several hundred IFN-responsive genes. Several viruses DE have evolved mechanisms to inhibit TYK2 activity thereby preventing DE the subsequent activation of downstream partners STAT1 and STAT2. GO GO:0039574; disruption by virus of host JAK-STAT cascade via inhibition of host TYK2 activity HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus; Interferon antiviral system evasion; Inhibition of host interferon signaling pathway by virus; Inhibition of host TYK2 by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Initiation factor. AC KW-0396 DE Protein which plays an important role in initiating the translation of DE a mRNA molecule into a polypeptide. Initiation factors help to form DE the complex between the mRNA and a ribosome. SY Translation initiation factor. GO GO:0003743; translation initiation factor activity GO GO:0006413; translational initiation HI Biological process: Protein biosynthesis; Initiation factor. HI Molecular function: Initiation factor. CA Molecular function. // ID Innate immunity. AC KW-0399 DE Protein involved in innate immunity, an inborn defense mechanism used DE by organisms to defend themselves against invasion by pathogens DE (bacteria, fungi, viruses, etc.). Initially discovered in insects DE which are devoid of an adaptive immune system and rely only on innate DE immune reactions for their defense, this immediate response DE accomplishes many activities including recognition and effector DE functions. Recognition is mediated by broad specificity, pattern DE recognition, receptors which recognize many related molecular DE structures (e.g. polysaccharides, polynucleotides) present in DE microorganisms but not found in the host. The innate responses include DE the release of antimicrobial peptides, production of cytokines, acute- DE phase proteins, complement. Although many different innate immune DE mechanisms are deployed for host defence, a unifying theme of innate DE immunity is the use of germline-encoded pattern recognition receptors DE for pathogens or damaged self components, such as the Toll-like DE receptors, nucleotide-binding domain leucine-rich repeat (LRR)- DE containing receptors, retinoic acid-inducible gene I-like RNA DE helicases and C-type lectin receptors. GO GO:0045087; innate immune response HI Biological process: Immunity; Innate immunity. WW http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/I/Innate.html WW https://www.nature.com/articles/nri2686 CA Biological process. // ID Inner capsid protein. AC KW-1153 DE Viral protein that is a component of the inner layer of a double or DE triple concentric icosahedral capsid. Inner capsids are part of DE reoviridae and cystoviridae virions. GO GO:0039625; viral inner capsid HI Cellular component: Virion; Capsid protein; Inner capsid protein. CA Cellular component. // ID Inositol biosynthesis. AC KW-0398 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of inositol, a cyclic hexahydric DE alcohol. It occurs in various forms, of which myo-inositol, a DE constituent of phospholipids, is the most important. SY Inositol anabolism; Inositol biosynthetic process; Inositol formation; SY Inositol synthesis. GO GO:0006021; inositol biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Inositol biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Insecticide resistance. AC KW-0978 DE Protein that confers, on insect vectors and pests, the ability to DE withstand insecticide action. Insecticides are chemicals that DE selectively kill insects. Insecticide resistance usually occurs by two DE broad mechanisms. The first is where the insect may produce large DE amounts of enzymes, such as esterases which either break down the DE insecticide molecule or bind to it so tightly that it cannot function DE (a process known as sequestration). The second mechanism involves DE mutation of the insecticide target site, such as the DE acetylcholinesterase enzyme in the nervous system. This effectively DE blocks the action of the insecticide. SY Resistance to insecticide. HI Biological process: Insecticide resistance. CA Biological process. // ID Integrin. AC KW-0401 DE Protein of the integrin family of cell surface heterodimeric receptors DE that mediates dynamic cell-to-cell as well as cell-to-matrix adhesion. DE Integrins function as mechanochemical sensors and transducers able to DE change rapidly and reversibly their adhesive functions by modulating DE their ligand-binding affinity. Each subunit has a large N-terminal DE extracellular domain followed by a transmembrane domain and a short C- DE terminal cytoplasmic region. Some subclasses of integrins share a DE common beta chain while having different alpha chains. GO GO:0007229; integrin-mediated signaling pathway HI Molecular function: Integrin. CA Molecular function. // ID Intellectual disability. AC KW-0991 DE Protein which, if defective, is involved in intellectual disability, a DE disorder appearing during development and characterized by subnormal DE intellectual functioning and impaired adaptive behavior. SY Mental deficiency; Mental retardation; Mental subnormality. HI Disease: Intellectual disability. CA Disease. // ID Interferon antiviral system evasion. AC KW-0922 DE Viral protein which prevents the activation of the antiviral state DE induced by interferon (IFN) in the host cell, thereby allowing the DE virus to replicate optimally. The antiviral state is the result of a DE signaling pathway induced by IFN-alpha or IFN-beta following viral DE infection. It leads to the transcription of various cellular antiviral DE genes coding for host defense proteins. SY Antiviral state evasion; Interferon response evasion. GO GO:0019049; mitigation of host antiviral defense response HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus; Interferon antiviral system evasion. CA Biological process. // ID Intermediate capsid protein. AC KW-1154 DE Viral protein that is a component of the intermediate layer of a DE triple concentric icosahedral capsid. Intermediate capsids are part of DE reoviridae virions. GO GO:0039626; viral intermediate capsid HI Cellular component: Virion; Capsid protein; Intermediate capsid protein. CA Cellular component. // ID Intermediate filament. AC KW-0403 DE Intermediate filaments (IF) are proteins which are primordial DE components of the cytoskeleton and the nuclear envelope. They DE generally form filamentous structures 8 to 14 nm wide and intermediate DE in size between microtubules and microfilaments. This family of DE protein includes cytokeratins, vimentin, desmin, glial fibrillary DE acidic protein, neurofilament proteins and nestin. All IF proteins are DE structurally similar in that they consist of: a central rod domain DE which is arranged in coiled-coiled alpha-helices, with at least two DE short characteristic interruptions; an N-terminal non-helical domain DE (head) of variable length; and an C-terminal domain (tail) which is DE also non-helical and shows extreme length variation between different DE IF proteins. GO GO:0005882; intermediate filament HI Cellular component: Intermediate filament. CA Cellular component. // ID Intrahepatic cholestasis. AC KW-0988 DE Protein which, if defective, causes intrahepatic cholestasis, a DE condition characterized by stoppage or suppression of the bile flow DE from the liver to the duodenum without extrahepatic bile duct DE obstruction. HI Disease: Intrahepatic cholestasis. CA Disease. // ID Intron homing. AC KW-0404 DE Endonucleases involved in intron homing, a genetic event leading to DE the transfer of an intron DNA sequence. This type of intron mobility DE depends on site-specific restriction endonucleases encoded by the DE mobile introns. SY Intron transposition. GO GO:0006314; intron homing HI Molecular function: Hydrolase; Nuclease; Endonuclease; Intron homing. HI Biological process: Intron homing. CA Biological process. // ID Iodination. AC KW-0405 DE Protein which is posttranslationally modified by the replacement of at DE least one hydrogen by iodine. SY Iodinated. HI PTM: Iodination. CA PTM. // ID Ion channel. AC KW-0407 DE Protein which is part of a transmembrane protein complex that forms a DE hydrophilic channel across the lipid bilayer through which specific DE inorganic ions can diffuse down their electrochemical gradients. The DE channels are usually gated and only open in response to a specific DE stimulus, such as a change in membrane potential (voltage-gated) or DE the binding of a ligand (ligand-gated channel). GO GO:0034220; monoatomic ion transmembrane transport GO GO:0034702; monoatomic ion channel complex HI Biological process: Transport; Ion transport; Ion channel. HI Molecular function: Ion channel. CA Molecular function. // ID Ion channel impairing toxin. AC KW-0872 DE Protein which interferes with the function of ion channels, which are DE hydrophilic channels across the lipid bilayer through which specific DE inorganic ions can diffuse down their electrochemical gradients. GO GO:0099106; ion channel regulator activity HI Molecular function: Toxin; Ion channel impairing toxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Ion transport. AC KW-0406 DE Protein involved in the transport of ions. Such proteins are usually DE transmembrane and mediate a movement of ions across cell membranes. DE Transport may be passive (facilitated diffusion; down the DE electrochemical gradient), or active (against the electrochemical DE gradient). Active transport requires energy which may come from light, DE oxidation reactions, ATP hydrolysis, or cotransport of other ions or DE molecules. GO GO:0006811; monoatomic ion transport HI Biological process: Transport; Ion transport. CA Biological process. // ID Ionotropic glutamate receptor inhibitor. AC KW-1028 DE Protein that inhibits ionotropic glutamate receptor (iGluR). iGluRs DE are glutamate-gated ion channels that mediate excitatory DE neurotransmission in the central nervous system. Based on both DE molecular and pharmacological criteria, iGluRs have been divided into DE two major classes, the non-NMDA class, which includes both AMPA and DE kainate subtypes of receptors, and the NMDA class. HI Molecular function: Toxin; Neurotoxin; Postsynaptic neurotoxin; Ionotropic glutamate receptor inhibitor. HI Molecular function: Toxin; Ion channel impairing toxin; Ionotropic glutamate receptor inhibitor. CA Molecular function. // ID Iron. AC KW-0408 DE Protein which binds at least one iron atom, or protein whose function DE is iron-dependent. Iron is a metal, chemical symbol Fe. SY Fe; Fe cation; Fe ion; Iron cation; Iron ion. HI Ligand: Iron. WW https://www.webelements.com/iron/ CA Ligand. // ID Iron storage. AC KW-0409 DE Protein involved in the storage of iron. GO GO:0006879; intracellular iron ion homeostasis HI Ligand: Iron; Iron storage. HI Biological process: Iron storage. CA Biological process. // ID Iron transport. AC KW-0410 DE Protein involved in the transport of iron. SY Fe transport; Iron cation transport; Iron ion transport. GO GO:0006826; iron ion transport HI Biological process: Transport; Ion transport; Iron transport. HI Ligand: Iron; Iron transport. CA Biological process. // ID Iron-sulfur. AC KW-0411 DE Protein which binds at least one iron-sulfur cluster, e.g. 2Fe-2S, DE 3Fe-4S, 4Fe-4S. SY Iron-sulfur cluster. GO GO:0051536; iron-sulfur cluster binding HI Ligand: Iron; Iron-sulfur. HI Ligand: Metal-binding; Iron-sulfur. CA Ligand. // ID Isoleucine biosynthesis. AC KW-0412 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of the hydrophobic amino acid DE isoleucine. SY Isoleucine anabolism; Isoleucine biosynthetic process; SY Isoleucine formation; Isoleucine synthesis. GO GO:0009097; isoleucine biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Amino-acid biosynthesis; Branched-chain amino acid biosynthesis; Isoleucine biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Isomerase. AC KW-0413 DE Enzyme that catalyzes the 1,1-, 1,2- or 1,3-hydrogen shift. The 1,1- DE hydrogen shift is an inversion at an asymmetric carbon center DE (racemases, epimerases). The 1,2-hydrogen shift involved a hydrogen DE transfer between two adjacent carbon atoms, one undergoing oxidation, DE the other reduction (aldose-ketose isomerases). The 1,3-hydrogen DE shifts are allylic or azaallylic (when nitrogen is one of the three DE atoms) isomerizations. GO GO:0016853; isomerase activity HI Molecular function: Isomerase. CA Molecular function. // ID Isopeptide bond. AC KW-1017 DE Protein which is posttranslationally modified by the formation of an DE amide bond between an amino-group and a carboxyl-group at least one of DE which is not an alpha group. An isopeptide bond involves the side DE chain of one or two amino acid residues. Because there are few enzymes DE that hydrolyze isopeptide bonds, the formation of interchain DE isopeptide bonds can produce stably linked protein dimers, multimers DE or complexes, such as blood clots. HI PTM: Isopeptide bond. CA PTM. // ID Isoprene biosynthesis. AC KW-0414 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of isoprene, an important organic DE unit of 5 carbons in plants. It is used to build up isoprenoids, DE including carotenoids, terpenes and natural rubber. SY Isoprene anabolism; Isoprene biosynthetic process; Isoprene formation; SY Isoprene synthesis. GO GO:0008299; isoprenoid biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Isoprene biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Jasmonic acid signaling pathway. AC KW-1184 DE Protein involved in the jasmonic acid (jasmonate, JA) signaling DE pathway (e.g. transport and signal transduction) that regulates many DE aspects of plant growth, development and cellular signaling (e.g. DE growth inhibition, senescence, tuber formation, response to wounding, DE plant defense, and leaf abscission). This phytohormone and its DE derivatives such as methyl jasmonate (MeJA) can be synthesized from DE the fatty acid linolenic acid in the oxylipin octadecanoid pathway. SY JA mediated signaling; JA signaling pathway; SY Jasmonate mediated signaling; Jasmonate signaling pathway; SY Jasmonic acid mediated signaling. HI Biological process: Jasmonic acid signaling pathway. CA Biological process. // ID Joubert syndrome. AC KW-0979 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Joubert syndrome, an autosomal DE recessive multisystem disorder characterized by cerebellar ataxia, DE developmental delay, hypotonia, neonatal breathing abnormalities and DE oculomotor apraxia. Neuroradiologically, it is characterized by DE cerebellar vermis hypoplasia/aplasia, thickened and reoriented DE superior cerebellar peduncles, and an abnormally large interpeduncular DE fossa, giving the appearance of the 'molar tooth sign' on transaxial DE slices. A wide clinical variability with a marked variation in DE severity and inconsistent presence of the following features is DE observed: episodic apnea-hyperpnea, abnormal eye movements, occipital DE meningoencephalocele, polydactyly, nephronophthisis or cystic DE dysplasia of the kidney, chorioretinal coloboma and retinal dysplasia. DE The variable association of ocular and renal abnormalities with DE cerebellar features typical of Joubert syndrome defines the cerebello- DE oculo-renal syndromes (CORSs). SY Cerebellar vermis agenesis; Cerebelloparenchymal disorder IV; CPD IV; SY JBTS; Joubert-Boltshauser syndrome; JS. HI Disease: Ciliopathy; Joubert syndrome. CA Disease. // ID Kallmann syndrome. AC KW-0956 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Kallmann syndrome, a disorder DE characterized by the association of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism with DE anosmia or hyposmia. Kallmann syndrome is caused by impaired embryonic DE development of the olfactory system and the GnRH-synthesizing neurons. DE The main clinical features consist of the association of micropenis DE and cryptorchidism in young boys, the absence of spontaneous puberty, DE and a partial or total loss of the sense of smell (anosmia). In some DE patients other developmental anomalies can be present such as renal DE agenesis, cleft lip/palate, selective tooth agenesis and bimanual DE synkinesis. SY Dysplasia olfactogenitalis of De Morsier; HHA; SY Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and anosmia; Kallmann's syndrome; SY Kallmann de Morsier syndrome; KMS. HI Disease: Kallmann syndrome. CA Disease. // ID Kartagener syndrome. AC KW-1012 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Kartagener syndrome, a rare and DE genetically heterogeneous disorder characterized by the combination of DE primary ciliary dyskinesia and situs inversus viscerum. SY Dextrocardia-bronchiectasis-sinusitis syndrome; KTGS; SY Siewert syndrome. HI Disease: Ciliopathy; Primary ciliary dyskinesia; Kartagener syndrome. CA Disease. // ID Karyogamy. AC KW-0415 DE Protein involved in the fusion of the nuclei of two gametes after DE cytoplasmic fusion. GO GO:0000741; karyogamy HI Biological process: Karyogamy. CA Biological process. // ID Kelch repeat. AC KW-0880 DE Protein containing at least one Kelch repeat. HI Domain: Kelch repeat. CA Domain. // ID Keratin. AC KW-0416 DE Fibrous proteins rich in cysteine and the chief constituent of horn, DE nails, hair, epidermis and feathers. Two major conformational groups DE have been characterized, alpha-keratin, whose peptide backbone forms DE an alpha-helix, and beta-keratin, whose backbone forms a zigzag or DE pleated sheet structure. GO GO:0005882; intermediate filament HI Cellular component: Keratin. CA Cellular component. // ID Keratinization. AC KW-0417 DE Protein involved in keratinization, the process in which the cytoplasm DE of the outermost cells of the vertebrate epidermis is replaced by DE keratin. Keratinization occurs in the stratum corneum, feathers, hair, DE claws, nails, hooves, and horns. GO GO:0031424; keratinization HI Biological process: Keratinization. CA Biological process. // ID Kinase. AC KW-0418 DE Enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of phosphate (phosphoryl or DE pyrophosphoryl transfer) usually from ATP to a second substrate. SY Phosphotransferase. GO GO:0016301; kinase activity GO GO:0016310; phosphorylation HI Molecular function: Transferase; Kinase. CA Molecular function. // ID Kinetochore. AC KW-0995 DE The kinetochore is a complex assembled at centromeric region of DNA, DE which provides the major attachment point for the spindle DE microtubules. In monocentric chromosomes, the kinetochores of point DE centromeres bind a single microtubule and the larger kinetochores of DE regional centromeres interact with a number of microtubules. In DE holocentric chromosomes, the kinetochores bind the diffuse centromere DE along the length of the chromosomes. GO GO:0000776; kinetochore HI Cellular component: Kinetochore. CA Cellular component. // ID Kinetoplast. AC KW-0419 DE Protein associated with the kinetoplast DNA (kDNA), the mitochondrial DE DNA of trypanosomatid protozoa. kDNA is a massive network, composed of DE thousands of topologically interlocked DNA circles. Each cell contains DE one network condensed into a disk-shaped structure within the matrix DE of its single mitochondrion. The kDNA circles are of two types, DE maxicircles present in a few dozen copies and minicircles present in DE several thousand copies. GO GO:0020023; kinetoplast HI Cellular component: Mitochondrion; Kinetoplast. CA Cellular component. // ID Knottin. AC KW-0960 DE Small disulfide-rich protein characterized by a special 'disulfide DE through disulfide knot'. This knot is obtained when one disulfide DE bridge crosses the macrocycle formed by two other disulfides and the DE interconnecting backbone (disulfide III-VI goes through disulfides I- DE IV and II-V). The knottin structure is found in some plant protease DE inhibitors, cyclotides, toxins from cone snails, spiders, insects, DE horseshoe crabs and scorpions, gurmarin-like peptides, agouti-related DE proteins, and some antimicrobial peptides. SY ICK; Inhibitor Cystine Knot. HI Domain: Knottin. WW http://knottin.cbs.cnrs.fr CA Domain. // ID Kringle. AC KW-0420 DE Protein containing at least one kringle domain, a triple-looped, DE disulfide cross-linked domain of approximately 80 amino acids in DE length and involved in protein-protein interactions. HI Domain: Kringle. CA Domain. // ID Lacrimo-auriculo-dento-digital syndrome. AC KW-0953 DE Protein which, if defective, causes lacrimo-auriculo-dento-digital DE syndrome. Lacrimo-auriculo-dento-digital syndrome, a form of DE ectodermal dysplasia, is an autosomal dominant multiple congenital DE anomaly. It is characterized by aplastic/hypoplastic lacrimal and DE salivary glands and ducts, cup-shaped ears, hearing loss, hypodontia DE and enamel hypoplasia, and distal limb segments anomalies. In addition DE to these cardinal features, facial dysmorphism, malformations of the DE kidney and respiratory system and abnormal genitalia have been DE reported. Craniosynostosis and severe syndactyly are not observed. SY Lacrimoauriculodentodigital syndrome; LADD syndrome; SY Levy-Hollister syndrome. HI Disease: Ectodermal dysplasia; Lacrimo-auriculo-dento-digital syndrome. CA Disease. // ID Lactation. AC KW-0421 DE Protein involved in lactation, the secretion of milk by mammary DE glands. GO GO:0007595; lactation HI Biological process: Lactation. CA Biological process. // ID Lactose biosynthesis. AC KW-0422 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of lactose, a disaccharide of DE glucose and galactose present in milk. SY Lactose anabolism; Lactose biosynthetic process; Lactose formation; SY Lactose synthesis. GO GO:0005989; lactose biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Lactose biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Lactose metabolism. AC KW-0423 DE Protein involved in the biochemical reactions with lactose, a DE disaccharide of glucose and galactose, found in milk. SY Lactose metabolic process. GO GO:0005988; lactose metabolic process HI Biological process: Lactose metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Laminin EGF-like domain. AC KW-0424 DE Protein containing at least one laminin EGF-like domain. Laminins are DE the major noncollagenous components of basement membranes. Their DE subunits contain consecutive repeats of about 60 amino acids, which DE include 8 conserved cysteines that form disulfide bonds (C1-C3, C2-C4, DE C5-C6, C7-C8). The tertiary structure of this domain is remotely DE similar, in its N-terminal, to that of the EGF-like module. HI Domain: Laminin EGF-like domain. CA Domain. // ID Lantibiotic. AC KW-0425 DE Lanthionine-containing peptide antibiotics are peptides produced by DE Gram-positive bacteria which cause cell death of other Gram-positive DE bacteria. GO GO:0005102; signaling receptor binding GO GO:0031640; killing of cells of another organism HI Molecular function: Antimicrobial; Antibiotic; Bacteriocin; Lantibiotic. CA Molecular function. // ID Late protein. AC KW-0426 DE Bacteriophage or viral protein expressed in a later phase of the DE infectious cycle. HI Developmental stage: Late protein. CA Developmental stage. // ID Latency-replication decision. AC KW-1252 DE Viral protein part of a genetic system that takes part in the decision DE of the outcome of the infection: latency or replication. Expression of DE genetic switch proteins control the expression of viral genes that act DE as effectors in either the establishment of latency (lysogeny) or in DE promoting productive replication (lytic cycle). Interactions between DE proteins involved in switch regulatory processes and host proteins DE often influence the decision. GO GO:0098689; latency-replication decision HI Biological process: Latency-replication decision. CA Biological process. // ID LDL. AC KW-0427 DE Protein constituent of the low-density lipoproteins or protein which DE binds LDLs. LDLs are plasma lipoproteins rich in cholesterol esters, DE synthesized from the very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL), and which DE transport cholesterol to peripheral tissue and regulate de novo DE cholesterol synthesis. GO GO:0034362; low-density lipoprotein particle HI Cellular component: LDL. CA Cellular component. // ID Lead. AC KW-1027 DE Protein which binds at least one lead atom, or protein whose function DE is lead-dependent. Lead is a metal, chemical symbol Pb. SY Lead cation; Lead ion; Pb; Pb cation; Pb ion. HI Ligand: Lead. WW https://www.webelements.com/lead/ CA Ligand. // ID Leader peptide. AC KW-0428 DE Short peptide sequences translated from bacterial leader RNA sequences DE which are involved in transcriptional or translation attenuation, DE mechanisms that modulate mRNA transcription or translation. HI Molecular function: Leader peptide. CA Molecular function. // ID Leber congenital amaurosis. AC KW-0901 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Leber congenital amaurosis, a DE clinically and genetically heterogeneous type of blindness transmitted DE as an autosomal recessive trait and occurring at or shortly after DE birth. It is associated with an atypical form of diffuse pigmentation DE and commonly with optic atrophy and attenuation of the retinal DE vessels. HI Disease: Leber congenital amaurosis. CA Disease. // ID Leber hereditary optic neuropathy. AC KW-0429 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Leber hereditary optic neuropathy, DE a mitochondrial disease leading to bilateral, painless loss of central DE vision due to selective degeneration of the retinal ganglion cells and DE their axons. The disease arises during young adult life and displays DE sex-dependent incomplete penetrance and male predominance. HI Disease: Primary mitochondrial disease; Leber hereditary optic neuropathy. CA Disease. // ID Lectin. AC KW-0430 DE Protein which specifically binds carbohydrates. Lectins are obtained DE particularly from seeds of leguminous plants but also from other plant DE and animal sources. They contain binding sites for specific mono-and DE oligosaccharides. They agglutinate cells by binding to specific sugar DE residues in membrane glycoproteins. GO GO:0030246; carbohydrate binding HI Ligand: Lectin. CA Ligand. // ID Leigh syndrome. AC KW-0431 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Leigh syndrome, a DE neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the subacute onset of DE psychomotor retardation, hypotonia, ataxia, weakness, vision loss, eye DE movement abnormalities, seizures, dysphagia, and lactic acidosis. DE Pathological features include spongy degeneration of the neuropile of DE the basal ganglia, thalamus, brain stem, and spinal cord. The syndrome DE is caused by a variety of defects of enzymes involved in energy DE metabolism, including cytochrome c oxidase (COX), the mitochondrial DE encoded ATP6 subunit of ATP synthase, and the X-linked E1-alpha DE subunit of pyruvate dehydrogenase. HI Disease: Primary mitochondrial disease; Leigh syndrome. CA Disease. // ID Leucine biosynthesis. AC KW-0432 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of the hydrophobic amino acid DE leucine. SY Leucine anabolism; Leucine biosynthetic process; Leucine formation; SY Leucine synthesis. GO GO:0009098; leucine biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Amino-acid biosynthesis; Branched-chain amino acid biosynthesis; Leucine biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Leucine-rich repeat. AC KW-0433 DE Protein containing at least one leucine-rich repeat (LRR). SY LRR. HI Domain: Leucine-rich repeat. CA Domain. // ID Leukodystrophy. AC KW-1026 DE Protein which, if defective, causes leukodystrophy, any of a group of DE diseases that affect the formation or maintenance of myelin in the DE central nervous system. HI Disease: Leukodystrophy. CA Disease. // ID Leukotriene biosynthesis. AC KW-0434 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of leukotrienes, eicosanoid hormones DE first isolated from leukocytes. They are thought to mediate the DE allergic response that causes lung constriction and muscle contraction DE in asthma. SY Leukotriene anabolism; Leukotriene biosynthetic process; SY Leukotriene formation; Leukotriene synthesis. GO GO:0019370; leukotriene biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Leukotriene biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Li-Fraumeni syndrome. AC KW-0435 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS), an DE autosomal dominant familial cancer predisposition syndrome associated DE with soft-tissue sarcoma, breast cancer, leukemia, osteosarcoma, DE melanoma, and cancer of the colon, pancreas, adrenal cortex and brain. DE Individuals with LFS are at increased risk for developing multiple DE primary cancers. SY LFS; Sarcoma family syndrome of Li and Fraumeni; SBLA syndrome. HI Disease: Li-Fraumeni syndrome. CA Disease. // IC Ligand. AC KW-9993 DE Keywords assigned to proteins because they bind, are associated with, DE or whose activity is dependent of some molecule. // ID Ligand-gated ion channel. AC KW-1071 DE Protein which forms or is a component of a ligand-gated channel. DE Ligand-gated channels are transmembrane ion channels whose DE permeability is increased by the binding of a specific ligand, such as DE neurotransmitters, ionositol triphosphates, and cyclic nucleotides. SY LGIC; Ligand-gated channel. HI Biological process: Transport; Ion transport; Ligand-gated ion channel. HI Molecular function: Ion channel; Ligand-gated ion channel. CA Molecular function. // ID Ligase. AC KW-0436 DE Enzyme that catalyzes the joining of two molecules coupled with the DE breakdown of a pyrophosphate bond in ATP or a similar triphosphate. DE Sometimes the terms "synthase", "synthetase" or "carboxylase" are also DE used for this class of enzymes. GO GO:0016874; ligase activity HI Molecular function: Ligase. CA Molecular function. // ID Light-harvesting polypeptide. AC KW-0437 DE Proteins which form part of the antenna complex, a light-harvesting DE system found in photosynthetic bacteria which absorb light radiation DE and transfer the excitation energy to the reaction centres. GO GO:0030076; light-harvesting complex HI Molecular function: Light-harvesting polypeptide. CA Molecular function. // ID Lignin biosynthesis. AC KW-0438 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of lignin, a polymer of DE phenylpropanoid subunits found in the walls of plant cells such as DE xylem and sclerenchyma fibres. Lignin imparts strength to the wall and DE protects against degradation by microorganisms. SY Lignin anabolism; Lignin biosynthetic process; Lignin formation; SY Lignin synthesis. GO GO:0009809; lignin biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Lignin biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Lignin degradation. AC KW-0439 DE Protein involved in the breakdown of lignin, a polymer of DE phenylpropanoid subunits found in the walls of plant cells such as DE xylem and sclerenchyma fibres. It imparts strength to the wall and DE protects against degradation by microorganisms. SY Lignin breakdown; Lignin catabolic process; Lignin catabolism. GO GO:0046274; lignin catabolic process HI Biological process: Lignin degradation. CA Biological process. // ID LIM domain. AC KW-0440 DE Protein which contains at least one LIM domain, a conserved cysteine- DE rich domain of approximately 60 amino acids with seven conserved DE cysteines and a histidine. The LIM domain binds two zinc ions and DE seems to be involved in protein-protein interactions. SY LIM motif. HI Ligand: Metal-binding; LIM domain. HI Ligand: Zinc; LIM domain. HI Domain: LIM domain. CA Domain. // ID Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy. AC KW-0947 DE Protein which, if defective, causes limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, a DE degenerative myopathy without nervous system involvement. The disease DE is characterized by slowly progressive wasting and weakness of the DE proximal muscles of arms and legs around the pelvic or shoulder DE girdles, elevated creatine kinase levels and dystrophic features on DE muscle biopsy. Onset of symptoms is in late childhood, adolescence or DE even adult life. Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy is a genetically DE heterogeneous disorder. Inheritance can be autosomal dominant or DE autosomal recessive. SY LGMD; Muscular dystrophy limb-girdle type. HI Disease: Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy. CA Disease. // ID Lipid A biosynthesis. AC KW-0441 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of lipid A (endotoxin), the DE hydrophobic anchor of lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Lipid A is a DE glucosamine-based phospholipid that makes up the outer monolayer of DE the outer membranes of most Gram-negative bacteria. SY Lipid A anabolism; Lipid A biosynthetic process; Lipid A formation; SY Lipid A synthesis. GO GO:0009245; lipid A biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Lipid biosynthesis; Lipid A biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Lipid biosynthesis. AC KW-0444 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of lipids, a diverse class of DE compounds which are insoluble in water but soluble in organic DE solvents. They include fats, oils, triacylglycerols, fatty acids, DE glycolipids, phospholipids and steroids. SY Lipid anabolism; Lipid biosynthetic process; Lipid formation. GO GO:0008610; lipid biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Lipid biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Lipid degradation. AC KW-0442 DE Protein involved in the breakdown of lipids, a diverse class of DE compounds, insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents, and DE which include fats, oils, triacylglycerols, fatty acids, glycolipids, DE phospholipids and steroids. SY Lipid breakdown; Lipid catabolic process; Lipid catabolism. GO GO:0016042; lipid catabolic process HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Lipid degradation. CA Biological process. // ID Lipid droplet. AC KW-0551 DE Protein characteristic of a lipid droplet, a dynamic cytoplasmic DE organelle which consists of an heterogeneous macromolecular assembly DE of lipids and proteins covered by a unique phospholipid monolayer. DE Lipid droplets may play a role in lipid metabolism and storage, and DE they may be involved in the regulation of intracellular trafficking DE and signal transduction. SY Adiposome; Lipid bodies; Lipid body; Lipid particle; SY Monolayer-surrounded lipid storage body; Oil bodies; Oil body; SY Oleosome; Spherosome. GO GO:0005811; lipid droplet HI Cellular component: Lipid droplet. CA Cellular component. // ID Lipid metabolism. AC KW-0443 DE Protein involved in the biochemical reactions of lipids. Lipids are a DE diverse class of compounds which are insoluble in water but soluble in DE organic solvents. They include fats, oils, triacylglycerols, fatty DE acids, glycolipids, phospholipids and steroids. SY Lipid metabolic process. GO GO:0006629; lipid metabolic process HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Lipid transport. AC KW-0445 DE Protein involved in the transport of lipids, a diverse class of DE compounds which are insoluble in water but soluble in organic DE solvents. They include fats, oils, triacylglycerols, fatty acids, DE glycolipids, phospholipids and steroids. GO GO:0006869; lipid transport HI Biological process: Transport; Lipid transport. CA Biological process. // ID Lipid-binding. AC KW-0446 DE Protein which binds one or more lipids. GO GO:0008289; lipid binding HI Ligand: Lipid-binding. CA Ligand. // ID Lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis. AC KW-0448 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of lipopolysaccharides (LPS), the DE main constituents of the outer cell wall of Gram-negative bacteria. DE LPS are composed of lipid molecules joined to polysaccharides and are DE highly immunogenic. SY Lipopolysaccharide anabolism; Lipopolysaccharide biosynthetic process; SY Lipopolysaccharide formation; Lipopolysaccharide synthesis. GO GO:0009103; lipopolysaccharide biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Lipoprotein. AC KW-0449 DE Protein which is posttranslationally modified by the attachment of at DE least one lipid or fatty acid, e.g. farnesyl, palmitate and myristate. SY Lipidated. HI PTM: Lipoprotein. CA PTM. // ID Lipoyl. AC KW-0450 DE Protein which contains at least one lipoyl-binding domain. Lipoic acid DE is an essential cofactor for E2 acyltransferases and some other DE proteins. HI Domain: Lipoyl. CA Domain. // ID Lissencephaly. AC KW-0451 DE Protein which, if defective, causes lissencephaly, a brain DE malformation characterized by the absence (agyria) or reduction DE (pachygyria) of brain surface convolutions (gyri), in association with DE abnormal organisation of the cortical layers. It results from neuronal DE migration defects during embryogenesis. Two large groups can be DE distinguished: classical lissencephaly (and its variants) and DE cobblestone lissencephaly. Lissencephaly means "smooth brain". HI Disease: Lissencephaly. CA Disease. // ID Lithium. AC KW-0452 DE Protein whose function is lithium-dependent. Lithium is an alkali DE metal, chemical symbol Li. SY Li; Li cation; Li ion; Lithium cation; Lithium ion. HI Ligand: Lithium. WW https://www.webelements.com/lithium/ CA Ligand. // ID Long QT syndrome. AC KW-0454 DE Protein which, if defective, causes the long QT syndrome, a heart DE disease which manifests itself by a prolonged QT interval on the ECG DE and, clinically, by a propensity for tachyarrhythmias, causing DE syncopes and sudden cardiac death. LQTS may be drug-induced, but DE mutations in genes coding for cardiac ion-channels are the cause of DE the hereditary forms: Romano-Ward syndrome (RWS), and Jervell and DE Lange-Nielsen Syndrome (JLNS). SY LQTS. HI Disease: Long QT syndrome. CA Disease. // ID LTQ. AC KW-0886 DE Protein which contains at least one lysine tyrosylquinone (LTQ) cross- DE link modification. LTQ is formed by oxidation of the phenol ring of a DE tyrosine to form tyrosylquinone (topaquinone) followed by covalent DE cross-linking with a lysine residue. SY Lysine topaquinone; Lysine tyrosylquinone. HI PTM: LTQ. CA PTM. // ID Luminescence. AC KW-0455 DE Protein involved in luminescence, the property of giving off light DE without emitting a corresponding degree of heat. SY Bioluminescence. GO GO:0008218; bioluminescence HI Biological process: Luminescence. CA Biological process. // ID Lyase. AC KW-0456 DE Enzyme that catalyzes the cleavage of C-C, C-O, C-S, C-N or other DE bonds by other means than by hydrolysis or oxidation, with two DE substrates in one reaction direction, and one in the other. In the DE latter direction, a molecule (of carbon dioxide, water, etc) is DE eliminated, thus creating a new double bond or a new ring. GO GO:0016829; lyase activity HI Molecular function: Lyase. CA Molecular function. // ID Lysine biosynthesis. AC KW-0457 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of the essential basic amino acid DE lysine. SY Lysine anabolism; Lysine biosynthetic process; Lysine formation; SY Lysine synthesis. GO GO:0009085; lysine biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Amino-acid biosynthesis; Lysine biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Lysosome. AC KW-0458 DE Protein found in the lysosome, a membrane-limited organelle present in DE all eukaryotic cells, which contains a large number of hydrolytic DE enzymes that are used for the intracellular degradation of DE macromolecules. GO GO:0005764; lysosome HI Cellular component: Lysosome. CA Cellular component. // ID Magnesium. AC KW-0460 DE Protein which binds at least one magnesium atom, or protein whose DE function is magnesium-dependent. Magnesium is a metallic element, DE chemical symbol Mg. SY Magnesium cation; Magnesium ion; Mg; Mg cation; Mg ion. HI Ligand: Magnesium. WW https://www.webelements.com/magnesium/ CA Ligand. // ID Magnetosome. AC KW-1281 DE Protein located in or on the magnetosome, a membrane-bound bacterial DE organelle that envelops crystals of magnetic iron minerals in DE magnetotactic bacteria. Magnetosomes form linear chains that align DE along the cellular motility axis at midcell and function in bacterial DE navigation along the Earth's magnetic field. They are formed by DE invagination of the cell inner membrane; in some species they remain DE connected to the inner membrane, in others they pinch off to form DE independent intracellular vesicles. GO GO:0110143; magnetosome HI Cellular component: Magnetosome. CA Cellular component. // ID Malaria. AC KW-0461 DE Protein involved in malaria, a human disease caused by Plasmodium, a DE parasitic protozoan that grows by sexual reproduction in the Anopheles DE mosquito. HI Disease: Malaria. CA Disease. // ID Maltose metabolism. AC KW-0462 DE Protein involved in the biochemical reactions with maltose, a DE disaccharide of glucose. Maltose is produced by the hydrolysis of DE starch. SY Maltose metabolic process. GO GO:0000023; maltose metabolic process HI Biological process: Maltose metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Mandelate pathway. AC KW-0463 DE Enzyme involved in the mandelate pathway. These enzymes enable various DE microorganisms to grow using D(-)-, L(+)- or DL-mandelate (2-hydroxy- DE 2-phenylacetate) as the sole source of carbon and energy. GO GO:0018924; mandelate metabolic process HI Biological process: Mandelate pathway. CA Biological process. // ID Manganese. AC KW-0464 DE Protein which binds at least one manganese atom, or protein whose DE function is manganese-dependent. Manganese is a metallic element, DE chemical symbol Mn. SY Manganese cation; Manganese ion; Mn; Mn cation; Mn ion. HI Ligand: Manganese. WW https://www.webelements.com/manganese/ CA Ligand. // ID Mannose-binding. AC KW-0465 DE Protein which binds mannose, a 6-carbon aldose sugar, that is found in DE many glycoproteins and polysaccharides. GO GO:0005537; mannose binding HI Ligand: Lectin; Mannose-binding. CA Ligand. // ID Maple syrup urine disease. AC KW-0466 DE Protein which, if defective, causes maple syrup urine disease, an DE autosomal recessive disorder characterized by mental and physical DE retardation, feeding problems and a maple syrup odour to the urine. HI Disease: Maple syrup urine disease. CA Disease. // ID Mast cell degranulation. AC KW-0467 DE Protein involved in mast cell degranulation. Mast cell is a large, DE ovoid cell of hematopoietic lineage, with a centrally located nucleus DE and numerous large, intensely basophilic granules. The binding of an DE antigen to its specific immunoglobulin-E antibody on the mast cell DE surface triggers the release of the MC granules. Mast cells are DE involved in hypersensitivity reactions. GO GO:0043303; mast cell degranulation HI Biological process: Mast cell degranulation. CA Biological process. // ID Meckel syndrome. AC KW-0981 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Meckel syndrome, an autosomal DE recessive disorder characterized by a combination of renal cysts and DE variably associated features, including developmental anomalies of the DE central nervous system (usually occipital encephalocele), hepatic DE ductal dysplasia and cysts, and polydactyly. SY Dysencephalia splanchnocystica; Gruber syndrome; SY Meckel-Gruber syndrome; MKS. HI Disease: Ciliopathy; Meckel syndrome. CA Disease. // ID Meiosis. AC KW-0469 DE Protein involved in meiotic processes or in regulation of meiosis. DE Meiosis is the nuclear division which results in the daughter nuclei DE each containing half the number of chromosomes of the parent. It DE comprises two distinct nuclear divisions, the first and second meiotic DE divisions (which may be separated by cell division), the actual DE reduction in chromosome number takes place during the first division. GO GO:0051321; meiotic cell cycle HI Biological process: Meiosis. CA Biological process. // ID Melanin biosynthesis. AC KW-0470 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of melanin. Melanins are brown or DE black pigments found in skin, hair, feathers, etc. They are irregular DE polymeric structures produced from tyrosine. Melanins can be divided DE into 3 groups: allomelanins in the plant kingdom, and eumelanins and DE phaeomelanins in the animal kingdom. SY Melanin anabolism; Melanin biosynthetic process; Melanin formation; SY Melanin synthesis. GO GO:0042438; melanin biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Melanin biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID MELAS syndrome. AC KW-0867 DE Protein which, if defective, causes mitochondrial encephalomyopathy DE with lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) syndrome, a DE genetically heterogeneous disorder, characterized by episodic DE vomiting, seizures, and recurrent cerebral insults resembling strokes DE and causing hemiparesis, hemianopsia, or cortical blindness. HI Disease: Primary mitochondrial disease; MELAS syndrome. CA Disease. // ID Melatonin biosynthesis. AC KW-0471 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of melatonin (N-acetyl 5- DE methoxytryptamine), a neurohormone synthesized by lower plants and in DE the pineal gland in animals. In humans, it is involved in the DE regulation of sleep, mood, puberty, ovarian cycles and in the DE establishment of circadian rhythms. In lower vertebrates, it causes DE aggregation of pigment in melanophores, and thus lightens skin. SY Melatonin anabolism; Melatonin biosynthetic process; SY Melatonin formation; Melatonin synthesis. GO GO:0030187; melatonin biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Melatonin biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Membrane. AC KW-0472 DE Protein which is membrane-bound or membrane-associated. A membrane is DE the layer which forms the boundary of cells and intracellular DE organelles. It is composed of two oriented lipid layers in which DE proteins are embedded and acts as a selective permeability barrier. GO GO:0016020; membrane HI Cellular component: Membrane. CA Cellular component. // ID Membrane attack complex. AC KW-0473 DE Component of the membrane attack complex which groups the complement DE plasma glycoproteins C5b, C6, C7, C8 and polymeric C9 on biological DE membranes. The complex forms transmembrane channels which displace DE lipid molecules and other constituents, thus disrupting the DE phospholipid bilayer of target cells leading to cell lysis by osmotic DE leakage. The formation of the membrane attack complex is the terminal DE step in the complement cascade. GO GO:0005579; membrane attack complex HI Biological process: Immunity; Innate immunity; Complement pathway; Membrane attack complex. HI Biological process: Cytolysis; Membrane attack complex. HI Cellular component: Membrane attack complex. CA Cellular component. // ID Menaquinone biosynthesis. AC KW-0474 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of menaquinone, a derivative of 2- DE methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone in which the 3-position is substituted with DE a variable-length polyisoprene chain. In mammals, menaquinone is an DE important component of the blood coagulation system. Mammals need to DE obtain this vitamin by their diet or from the bacterial flora of the DE gut. SY Menaquinone anabolism; Menaquinone biosynthetic process; SY Menaquinone formation; Menaquinone synthesis; Vitamin K2 anabolism; SY Vitamin K2 biosynthesis; Vitamin K2 biosynthetic process; SY Vitamin K2 formation; Vitamin K2 synthesis. GO GO:0009234; menaquinone biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Menaquinone biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Mercuric resistance. AC KW-0475 DE Protein that confers bacteria or other microorganisms the ability to DE withstand mercury salts. SY Mercuric cation resistance; Mercuric ion resistance; SY Resistance to mercury ion. GO GO:0046689; response to mercury ion HI Biological process: Mercuric resistance. CA Biological process. // ID Mercury. AC KW-0476 DE Protein which binds mercury and/or is involved in the cleavage of DE carbon-mercury bonds. Mercury is the only liquid metallic element, DE chemical symbol is Hg. SY Hg; Hg cation; Hg ion; Mercury cation; Mercury ion. HI Ligand: Mercury. WW https://www.webelements.com/mercury/ CA Ligand. // ID Merozoite. AC KW-0477 DE Protein expressed in the merozoite stage of sporozoite parasites, an DE invasive stage in the life cycle produced by schizogony or asexual DE reproduction in which the nucleus of a cell undergoes division several DE times. This results in a multinucleate schizont which subsequently DE gives rise to a number of uninucleate cells called merozoites. HI Developmental stage: Merozoite. CA Developmental stage. // ID Metachromatic leukodystrophy. AC KW-0478 DE Protein which, if defective, causes metachromatic leukodystrophy, a DE disease characterized by intralysosomal or myelin membrane storage of DE cerebroside-3-sulfate. Whereas storage occurs in many cells, the DE disease almost exclusively affects oligodendrocytes. Patients suffer DE from a progressive demyelination, which causes a variety of DE neurological symptoms, including gait disturbances, ataxias, optical DE atrophy, dementia, seizures and spastic tetraparesis. SY Metachromatic leucodystrophy. HI Disease: Leukodystrophy; Metachromatic leukodystrophy. CA Disease. // ID Metal-binding. AC KW-0479 DE Protein which binds metals. GO GO:0046872; metal ion binding HI Ligand: Metal-binding. CA Ligand. // ID Metal-thiolate cluster. AC KW-0480 DE Protein which binds at least a cluster composed of metal coordinated DE via cysteinyl thiolate bridges to cysteine ligands. GO GO:0046872; metal ion binding HI Ligand: Metal-binding; Metal-thiolate cluster. CA Ligand. // ID Metalloenzyme inhibitor. AC KW-0481 DE Protein that inhibits metalloenzymes, enzymes which contains metal DE ions. GO GO:0004857; enzyme inhibitor activity HI Molecular function: Metalloenzyme inhibitor. CA Molecular function. // ID Metalloprotease. AC KW-0482 DE Proteolytic enzyme which use a metal for its catalytic mechanism. Most DE metalloproteases are zinc-dependent, some use cobalt. SY Metallopeptidase. GO GO:0008237; metallopeptidase activity HI Molecular function: Hydrolase; Protease; Metalloprotease. CA Molecular function. // ID Metalloprotease inhibitor. AC KW-0483 DE Protein that inhibits metalloproteases, which are peptide hydrolases DE that use a metal in the catalytic mechanism. SY Metallopeptidase inhibitor. GO GO:0008191; metalloendopeptidase inhibitor activity HI Molecular function: Metalloenzyme inhibitor; Metalloprotease inhibitor. HI Molecular function: Protease inhibitor; Metalloprotease inhibitor. CA Molecular function. // ID Methanogenesis. AC KW-0484 DE Protein involved in methanogenesis, the energy yielding formation of DE methane by methanogenic bacteria. SY Methane biosynthesis; Methane biosynthetic process; Methane synthesis. GO GO:0015948; methanogenesis HI Biological process: Methanogenesis. CA Biological process. // ID Methanol utilization. AC KW-0485 DE Protein involved in the utilization of methanol. GO GO:0015945; methanol metabolic process HI Biological process: Methanol utilization. CA Biological process. // ID Methionine biosynthesis. AC KW-0486 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of the hydrophobic amino acid DE methionine, an essential amino acid in human diets which contains a DE thioether linkage. SY Methionine anabolism; Methionine biosynthetic process; SY Methionine formation; Methionine synthesis. GO GO:0009086; methionine biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Amino-acid biosynthesis; Methionine biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Methotrexate resistance. AC KW-0487 DE Protein that confers the ability to withstand methotrexate, an DE inhibitor of dehydrofolate reductase (DHFR). Methotrexate resistance DE occurs usually as a result of mutation or amplification of the DHFR DE gene. SY Resistance to methotrexate. GO GO:0031427; response to methotrexate HI Biological process: Methotrexate resistance. CA Biological process. // ID Methylation. AC KW-0488 DE Protein which is posttranslationally modified by the attachment of at DE least one methyl group. SY Methylated. HI PTM: Methylation. CA PTM. // ID Methyltransferase. AC KW-0489 DE Enzyme that transfers methyl groups from one compound to another. GO GO:0008168; methyltransferase activity GO GO:0032259; methylation HI Molecular function: Transferase; Methyltransferase. CA Molecular function. // ID MHC I. AC KW-0490 DE A heterodimeric membrane protein composed of two non-covalently linked DE polypeptide chains, a major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-encoded DE alpha chain and a non-MHC-encoded subunit B2M/beta2-microglobulin. DE Each MHC molecule consists of an extracellular peptide-binding cleft, DE followed by an immunoglobulin (Ig)-like domain and transmembrane and DE cytoplasmic domains. The amino-terminal alpha-1 and alpha-2 segments DE of the alpha chain form the peptide-binding cleft. Expressed on all DE nucleated cells, displays peptides derived from cytosolic proteins for DE recognition by CD8-positive T cells. By scanning MHC I molecules, CD8- DE positive T cells can detect infected or tumor cells and eliminate DE them. GO GO:0002474; antigen processing and presentation of peptide antigen via MHC class I GO GO:0042612; MHC class I protein complex HI Biological process: Immunity; MHC I. HI Cellular component: MHC I. CA Cellular component. // ID MHC II. AC KW-0491 DE A heterodimeric membrane protein composed of two non-covalently linked DE alpha and beta polypeptide chains, both major histocompatibility DE complex (MHC)-encoded. Each MHC molecule consists of an extracellular DE peptide-binding cleft followed by an immunoglobulin (Ig)-like domain DE and transmembrane and cytoplasmic domains. The amino-terminal alpha-1 DE and beta-1 segments interact to form the peptide-binding cleft. DE Expressed on professional antigen presenting cells, displays peptides DE derived from endocytosed proteins for recognition by CD4-positive DE helper T cells. By scanning MHC II molecules, CD4-positive T cells DE activate effector mechanisms that eliminate extracellular microbes. GO GO:0002504; antigen processing and presentation of peptide or polysaccharide antigen via MHC class II GO GO:0042613; MHC class II protein complex HI Biological process: Immunity; Adaptive immunity; MHC II. HI Cellular component: MHC II. CA Cellular component. // ID Microphthalmia. AC KW-1013 DE Protein which, if defective, causes microphthalmia, a developmental DE anomaly in which the eyeballs are abnormally small. Disease severity DE ranges from moderate reduction of the size of a single eye to complete DE bilateral absence of ocular tissues. Microphthalmia can occur in DE isolation or as part of a syndrome. SY Microphthalmos. HI Disease: Microphthalmia. CA Disease. // ID Microsome. AC KW-0492 DE Protein found in microsomes, a heterogenous set of vesicles 20-200 nm DE in diameter and formed from the endoplasmic reticulum when cells are DE disrupted. The vesicles are isolated by differential centrifugation DE and are composed of three structural features: rough vesicles, smooth DE vesicles and ribosomes. Numerous enzyme activities are associated with DE the microsomal fraction. GO GO:0043231; intracellular membrane-bounded organelle HI Cellular component: Endoplasmic reticulum; Microsome. CA Cellular component. // ID Microtubular inwards viral transport. AC KW-1177 DE Viral protein that allows the active transport of complete particles DE and viral components along microtubules toward the intracellular DE replication sites during virus entry. This transport, which usually DE involves motor proteins like dynein or polymerization/depolymerization DE reactions as a driving force, is mostly used by viruses that replicate DE their genome near or in the nucleus. Neurotropic viruses for example, DE often enter neurons at the terminal axon and their viral genome must DE be moved retrogradely to cell bodies. Viruses such as adenovirus, DE Adeno-associated virus, rabies virus, canine parvovirus, vaccinia, DE foamy virus, human papillomavirus 16 and herpes virus utilize this DE type of intracellular transport. GO GO:0075521; microtubule-dependent intracellular transport of viral material towards nucleus HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Microtubular inwards viral transport. HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Cytoplasmic inwards viral transport; Microtubular inwards viral transport. CA Biological process. // ID Microtubular outwards viral transport. AC KW-1189 DE Viral protein that allows the active transport of viral components and DE assembled, complete particles along microtubules toward the cell DE periphery during virus egress. This transport, which usually involves DE interaction with motor proteins like kinesin or DE polymerization/depolymerization reactions as a driving force, is DE mostly used by viruses that replicate their genome near or in the DE nucleus and allows newly assembled viral progeny to reach the plasma DE membrane. Herpes simplex virus for example is transported DE anterogradely along the axon. GO GO:0039701; microtubule-dependent intracellular transport of viral material towards cell periphery HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Microtubular outwards viral transport. HI Biological process: Viral release from host cell; Microtubular outwards viral transport. CA Biological process. // ID Microtubule. AC KW-0493 DE Protein associated with or component of the microtubule. The DE microtubule is formed by the arrangement of 13 parallel protofilaments DE arising from end-to-end aggregation of the tubulin alpha/beta-dimers. DE Microtubules are associated with various other proteins (MAPs, dynein, DE kinesin) and are involved in structures responsible for cellular DE movement such as flagella or cilia. Microtubules of the ciliary DE axoneme are more permanent than cytoplasmic and spindle microtubules. DE Microtubule formation is inhibited by agents such as colchicine, DE vinblastine or vincristine. GO GO:0005874; microtubule HI Cellular component: Microtubule. CA Cellular component. // ID Milk protein. AC KW-0494 DE Protein found in milk, a fluid secreted by female mammals to provide DE food for their offspring. It consists of water, proteins, soluble DE carbohydrates, electrolytes, lipids and vitamins. HI Molecular function: Milk protein. CA Molecular function. // ID Mineral balance. AC KW-0495 DE Protein that influences the equilibrium of minerals present in bone, DE e.g., fetuin. SY Regulation of bone mineralization. GO GO:0030500; regulation of bone mineralization HI Biological process: Mineral balance. CA Biological process. // ID Mitochondrion. AC KW-0496 DE Protein encoded by or localized in the mitochondrion, a DE semiautonomous, self-reproducing organelle that occurs in the DE cytoplasm of all cells of most, but not all, eukaryotes. Each DE mitochondrion is surrounded by a double limiting membrane. The inner DE membrane is highly invaginated, and its projections are called DE cristae. Mitochondria are the sites of the reactions of oxidative DE phosphorylation, which result in the formation of ATP. The size and DE coding capacity of the mitochondrial DNA varies considerably in DE different organisms, and encodes rRNAs, tRNAs and essential DE mitochondrial proteins. GO GO:0005739; mitochondrion HI Cellular component: Mitochondrion. CA Cellular component. // ID Mitochondrion inner membrane. AC KW-0999 DE Protein found in or associated with the inner membrane of a DE mitochondrion, the membrane which separates the mitochondrial matrix DE from the intermembrane space. SY Inner mitochondrial membrane; Mitochondrial inner membrane. GO GO:0005743; mitochondrial inner membrane HI Cellular component: Membrane; Mitochondrion inner membrane. HI Cellular component: Mitochondrion; Mitochondrion inner membrane. CA Cellular component. // ID Mitochondrion nucleoid. AC KW-1135 DE Protein found associated with the mitochondrial nucleoid, the DE mitochondrial pseudocompartment formed by the chromatin-dense area. DE This region, which is functionally equivalent to the eukaryotic DE nucleus, is not surrounded by a membrane. SY Mitochondrial nucleoid; Mitochromosome. GO GO:0042645; mitochondrial nucleoid HI Cellular component: Mitochondrion; Mitochondrion nucleoid. CA Cellular component. // ID Mitochondrion outer membrane. AC KW-1000 DE Protein found in or associated with the outer membrane of a DE mitochondrion, the mitochondrial membrane facing the cytoplasm. SY Mitochondrial outer membrane; Outer mitochondrial membrane. GO GO:0005741; mitochondrial outer membrane HI Cellular component: Membrane; Mitochondrion outer membrane. HI Cellular component: Mitochondrion; Mitochondrion outer membrane. CA Cellular component. // ID Mitogen. AC KW-0497 DE Protein which can induce mitosis of certain eukaryotic cells, i.e. it DE stimulates cellular proliferation. GO GO:0051781; positive regulation of cell division HI Molecular function: Mitogen. CA Molecular function. // ID Mitosis. AC KW-0498 DE Protein involved in mitosis, the nuclear division in eukaryotic cells DE involving the exact duplication and separation of the chromosome DE threads so that each daughter nucleus carries a chromosome complement DE identical to that of the parent nucleus. Mitosis is divided into four DE substages: prophase, metaphase, anaphase and telophase. HI Biological process: Cell cycle; Cell division; Mitosis. CA Biological process. // ID Mitosome. AC KW-1025 DE Protein localized in the mitosome, an organelle found in DE "amitochondrial" unicellular organisms which do not have the DE capability of gaining energy from oxidative phosphorylation. Mitosomes DE are almost certainly derived from mitochondria, they have a double DE membrane and most proteins are delivered to them by a targeting DE sequence. Unlike mitochondria, mitosomes do not contain any DNA. The DE mitosome functions in iron-sulphur cluster assembly. GO GO:0032047; mitosome HI Cellular component: Mitosome. CA Cellular component. // ID Mobility protein. AC KW-0499 DE Protein involved in the conjugative transfer of plasmid DNA. These DE proteins provide the function of nicking the DNA at a certain point, DE guiding the 5' end of the nicked strand into the recipient cell, DE recircularization, and perhaps the priming of complementary strand DE synthesis in the recipient. HI Biological process: Conjugation; Mobility protein. HI Molecular function: Mobility protein. CA Molecular function. // ID Modulation of host cell apoptosis by virus. AC KW-1119 DE Viral protein involved in the modulation of host cell apoptosis by DE acting different steps of the process. Several viruses encode proteins DE that inhibit apoptosis while other viruses use apoptosis to their DE advantage to suppress immune response or to disseminate. GO GO:0039526; perturbation by virus of host apoptosis HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Modulation of host cell apoptosis by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Modulation of host cell cycle by viral cyclin-like protein. AC KW-1120 DE Viral protein sharing sequence homology with cellular cyclins. Most DE viral cyclin homologues are closely related in sequence to the DE cellular D-type cyclins, which are implicated in regulating the DE transit of cells from G1 into S and are thought to operate via the DE inactivation of the retinoblastoma tumour suppressor protein. GO GO:0060153; perturbation by virus of host cell cycle progression HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Modulation of host cell cycle by virus; Modulation of host cell cycle by viral cyclin-like protein. CA Biological process. // ID Modulation of host cell cycle by virus. AC KW-1121 DE Viral protein involved in the modulation of host cell cycle. The cell DE cycle can be divided into four stages: G1, S, G2 and mitosis, while DE cells resting are termed quiescent cells (G0). Viruses have evolved DE strategies to modulate cell cycle progression including stimulation of DE S phase entry from G1 or G0 or cell cycle arrest at G2/M for example. DE This regulation allows viruses to maximize their own replication. GO GO:0060153; perturbation by virus of host cell cycle progression HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Modulation of host cell cycle by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Modulation of host chromatin by virus. AC KW-1122 DE Viral protein involved in the regulation of host chromatin structure. DE Chromatin has a major role in life cycle of many viruses, and a lot of DE them have evolved mechanisms to modulate chromatin-related processes. DE For example, histone acetyltransferases, histone deacetylases or DE histones are common targets of viruses. GO GO:0039525; modulation by virus of host chromatin organization HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Modulation of host chromatin by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Modulation of host dendritic cell activity by virus. AC KW-1118 DE Viral protein involved in the modulation of host dendritic cell DE activity. Dendritic cells operate at the interface between the innate DE and adaptive immune response by their ability to sample their DE environment for pathogenic products, to process them, and to present DE viral antigens to T-cells. This results in T cell proliferation and DE the induction of virus-specific adaptive immune responses. Therefore DE impairing dendritic cell function by viruses is an effective strategy DE to disrupt the host immune response. GO GO:0039673; evasion by virus of host dendritic cell activity HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Modulation of host dendritic cell activity by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Modulation of host E3 ubiquitin ligases by virus. AC KW-1123 DE Viral protein involved in the modulation of cellular E3 ubiquitin DE ligases. In general, viral proteins redirect cellular E3 ubiquitin DE ligases to select specific host proteins for proteasomal degradation. DE The aim of this subversion is the creation of a favorable environment DE for virus replication and dissemination. GO GO:0039648; modulation by symbiont of host protein ubiquitination HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Modulation of host ubiquitin pathway by virus; Modulation of host E3 ubiquitin ligases by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Modulation of host immunity by viral IgG Fc receptor-like protein. AC KW-1124 DE Viral protein acting as an IgG Fc receptors, able to bind IgG and DE inhibit host Fc-dependent immune activation. Fc receptors are proteins DE found at the surface of certain cells of the immune system including DE macrophages, monocytes, natural killer cells or B-cells. They allow DE these cells to bind to antibodies that are attached to the surface of DE infected cells or pathogens, helping these cells to identify and DE eliminate pathogens. GO GO:0075528; perturbation by virus of host immune response HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Modulation of host immunity by viral IgG Fc receptor-like protein. CA Biological process. // ID Modulation of host NK-cell activity by virus. AC KW-1131 DE Viral protein involved in the modulation of host NK-cell activity. DE Natural killer (NK) cells are critical in defense against viral DE infections, since they provide host protection by releasing cytokines DE such as IFN-gamma or by direct lysis of infected targets. Therefore, DE during viral infections, viruses and NK cells are in a constant battle DE and many viruses have developed a variety of strategies to modulate NK DE cell activity. GO GO:0039671; evasion by virus of host natural killer cell activity HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Modulation of host NK-cell activity by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Modulation of host PP1 activity by virus. AC KW-1126 DE Protein phosphatase-1 (PP1) is a member of the Serine/Threonine DE phosphatases. The enzyme regulates many important physiological DE processes, including gene transcription, translation, metabolism, cell DE growth and division. Different viruses including asfivirus, herpes DE simplex virus or papillomavirus interact with and modulate PPP1 DE phosphatase activity to dephosphorylate specific cellular substrates DE including EIF2S1. Upon viral infection, the host PKR/EIF2AK2 triggers DE the phosphorylation of EIF2S1 leading to a complete translational DE shut-off. By dephosphroylating EIF2S1 with PPP1CA, viruses manage to DE circumvent this antiviral response and prevent translational shut-off. GO GO:0004865; protein serine/threonine phosphatase inhibitor activity GO GO:0039606; suppression by virus of host translation initiation HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus; Interferon antiviral system evasion; Inhibition of host interferon signaling pathway by virus; Modulation of host PP1 activity by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Modulation of host ubiquitin pathway by viral deubiquitinase. AC KW-1127 DE Viral protein possessing deubiquitinating activity. Hijacking the DE ubiquitin system plays an essential role during viral replication. DE Therefore, several viruses including EBV or HCMV encode for proteins DE able to remove ubiquitin or ubiquitin-like proteins from their DE substrate. GO GO:0039648; modulation by symbiont of host protein ubiquitination HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Modulation of host ubiquitin pathway by virus; Modulation of host ubiquitin pathway by viral deubiquitinase. CA Biological process. // ID Modulation of host ubiquitin pathway by viral E3 ligase. AC KW-1128 DE Viral protein functioning as a cellular E3 ubiquitin ligase. These DE viral proteins usually target several host proteins for proteasomal DE degradation. GO GO:0039648; modulation by symbiont of host protein ubiquitination HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Modulation of host ubiquitin pathway by virus; Modulation of host ubiquitin pathway by viral E3 ligase. CA Biological process. // ID Modulation of host ubiquitin pathway by viral ubl. AC KW-1129 DE Viral protein sharing sequence similarity with host ubiquitin. Several DE of these homologues are present in large DNA viruses such as DE entomopoxvirus or canarypoxvirus and are thought to modulate host DE ubiquitin pathway. GO GO:0039648; modulation by symbiont of host protein ubiquitination HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Modulation of host ubiquitin pathway by virus; Modulation of host ubiquitin pathway by viral ubl. CA Biological process. // ID Modulation of host ubiquitin pathway by virus. AC KW-1130 DE Viral protein involved in the modulation of the host ubiquitin DE pathway. The ubiquitination pathway comprises E1, E2, and E3 ligases DE that conjugate ubiquitin to protein substrate. Usually, the host E3 DE ligase determines the substrate specificity. Some viruses encode E3 DE ligases that modulate the substrate specificity of host E3 ligases. DE Alternatively, some viruses encode deubiquitinases able to remove DE ubiquitin or ubiquitin-like proteins from their substrate. GO GO:0039648; modulation by symbiont of host protein ubiquitination HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Modulation of host ubiquitin pathway by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Modulation of host virulence by virus. AC KW-1254 DE Viral factor that modulates its bacterial host's virulence against a DE third organism. These virulence factors are mostly expressed from DE integrated viral genomes and have diverse functions. Bacterial host, DE and populations, and the encoding (pro)virus probably benefit from the DE expression of such factors. For example, Bor and Lom outer membrane DE proteins encoded by bacteriophage lambda modify the virulence of the DE host bacteria against a eukaryotic target. Some enteric DE bacterioviruses direct alterations in lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis, DE resulting in bacterial immune evasion of its eukaryotic target. Other DE prokaryotic viruses encode exotoxins changing their host bacteria into DE serious pathogens. A well-known bacterial exotoxin encoded by a DE provirus is the diphtheria toxin. GO GO:0098676; modulation of host virulence by virus HI Biological process: Virulence; Modulation of host virulence by virus. CA Biological process. // IC Molecular function. AC KW-9992 DE Keywords assigned to proteins due to their particular molecular DE function. // ID Molybdenum. AC KW-0500 DE Protein which binds molybdenum (or molybdopterin) or protein involved DE in the transport of molybdenum, a metallic element, chemical symbol DE Mo. It plays an essential role in the active site of all eukaryotic DE Mo-containing enzymes. In plants, Mo enzymes are important for nitrate DE assimilation, phytohormone synthesis, and purine catabolism. Mo is DE often coordinated to the sulfur atoms of a pterin derivative DE (molybdopterin [MPT]), thereby forming the active Molybdenum cofactor DE (Moco), which is highly conserved in eukaryotes, eubacteria, and DE archaebacteria. SY Mo; Mo cation; Mo ion; Molybdenum cation; Molybdenum ion. HI Ligand: Molybdenum. WW https://www.webelements.com/molybdenum/ CA Ligand. // ID Molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis. AC KW-0501 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of the molybdenum cofactor (Moco), a DE molybdenum atom coordinated to the sulfur atoms of a pterin derivative DE (molybdopterin [MPT]). It is highly conserved in eukaryotes, DE eubacteria, and archaebacteria. In prokaryotes, two operons are DE directly associated with biosynthesis of the pterin moiety and its DE side chain while additional loci play a role in the acquisition of DE molybdenum and/or activation of the cofactor. SY Moco anabolism; Moco biosynthesis; Moco biosynthetic process; SY Moco formation; Moco synthesis; Molybdenum cofactor anabolism; SY Molybdenum cofactor biosynthetic process; SY Molybdenum cofactor formation; Molybdenum cofactor synthesis; SY Molybdopterin anabolism; Molybdopterin biosynthesis; SY Molybdopterin biosynthetic process; Molybdopterin formation; SY Molybdopterin synthesis. GO GO:0006777; Mo-molybdopterin cofactor biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Monoclonal antibody. AC KW-0502 DE Antibody produced by a single clone of B cells and thus consisting of DE a population of identical antibody molecules all specicfic for a DE single antigenic determinant. They are produced from cultured DE hybridoma cell lines for research and commercial purposes. GO GO:0003823; antigen binding HI Molecular function: Monoclonal antibody. CA Molecular function. // ID Monooxygenase. AC KW-0503 DE Enzymes that reduce molecular oxygen by incorporating one oxygen atom DE into its substrate and the other one in water. GO GO:0004497; monooxygenase activity HI Molecular function: Oxidoreductase; Monooxygenase. CA Molecular function. // ID Morphogen. AC KW-0504 DE Diffusible protein that influence morphogenesis or embryonic DE development. These proteins carry information relating, for example, DE to a position in the embryo, and thus, determine the differentiation DE that cells perceiving this information will undergo. They are thought DE to act as a function of a threshold of their concentration. GO GO:0009653; anatomical structure morphogenesis GO GO:0016015; morphogen activity HI Molecular function: Morphogen. CA Molecular function. // ID Motor protein. AC KW-0505 DE Protein that walks or slides along microtubules or microfilaments DE using the energy provided by ATP or GTP hydrolysis, e.g. dyneins, DE myosins and kinesins. Or protein which mediates motility by other non DE enzymatic processes, e.g. prestin, a bidirectional voltage-to-force DE converter. HI Molecular function: Motor protein. CA Molecular function. // ID mRNA capping. AC KW-0506 DE Protein involved in the modification (capping) of the 5' end of DE eukaryotic mRNAs. This modification occurs after the beginning of DE transcription in the nucleus, and consists of adding a guanosine DE nucleotide to the 5'-end of mRNAs and then, methylating the guanosine. DE Capping protects mRNAs at their termini against attack by phosphatases DE and other nucleases and promotes mRNA function at the level of DE initiation of translation. SY Messenger RNA capping. GO GO:0006370; 7-methylguanosine mRNA capping HI Biological process: mRNA processing; mRNA capping. CA Biological process. // ID mRNA processing. AC KW-0507 DE Protein involved in the processing of the primary mRNA transcript to DE yield a functional mRNA. This includes 5' capping, 3' cleavage and DE polyadenylation, as well as mRNA splicing and RNA editing. SY Messenger RNA processing. GO GO:0006397; mRNA processing HI Biological process: mRNA processing. CA Biological process. // ID mRNA splicing. AC KW-0508 DE Protein involved in the process by which nonsense sequences or DE intervening sequences (introns) are removed from pre-mRNA to generate DE a functional mRNA (messenger RNA) that contains only exons. SY Messenger RNA splicing. GO GO:0008380; RNA splicing HI Biological process: mRNA processing; mRNA splicing. CA Biological process. // ID mRNA transport. AC KW-0509 DE Protein which is involved in the mechanism of export of mRNAs from the DE nucleus to the cytoplasm. SY Messenger RNA transport. GO GO:0051028; mRNA transport HI Biological process: Transport; mRNA transport. CA Biological process. // ID Mucolipidosis. AC KW-0942 DE Protein which, if defective, causes mucolipidosis, a group of DE inherited metabolic diseases characterised by the accumulation of DE excessive amounts of acid mucopolysaccharides, sphingolipids, and/or DE glycolipids in visceral and mesenchymal cells. Abnormal amounts of DE sphingolipids or glycolipids are present in neural tissue. Mental DE retardation and skeletal changes are common. All mucolipidosis are DE lysosomal disorders and are inherited in an autosomal recessive DE manner. HI Disease: Mucolipidosis. CA Disease. // ID Mucopolysaccharidosis. AC KW-0510 DE Protein which, if defective, causes mucopolysaccharidosis. These DE inherited diseases are characterized by excessive accumulation and DE secretion of oligomucopoloysaccharide due to the deficiency of enzymes DE involved in the degradation of glycosaminoglycans DE (mucopolysaccharides). They are progressive and often display a wide DE spectrum of clinical severity within one enzyme deficiency. HI Disease: Mucopolysaccharidosis. CA Disease. // ID Multifunctional enzyme. AC KW-0511 DE Protein that contains at least two distinct enzymatic activities and DE two distinct active sites. GO GO:0003824; catalytic activity GO GO:0008152; metabolic process HI Molecular function: Multifunctional enzyme. CA Molecular function. // ID Muscle protein. AC KW-0514 DE Characteristic protein of a muscle cell. The major ones are myosin and DE actin, which are responsible for the contraction and relaxation of DE muscles. HI Molecular function: Muscle protein. CA Molecular function. // ID Mutator protein. AC KW-0515 DE Protein which is encoded by a mutator gene (mutator). Generally, these DE are genes within which certain mutations cause an increase in DE frequency of spontaneous mutations in other genes. Mutator proteins DE are therefore thought to be responsible for inaccurate DNA DE replication. HI Molecular function: Mutator protein. CA Molecular function. // ID Myofibrillar myopathy. AC KW-1060 DE Protein which, if defective, causes myofibrillar myopathy, a group of DE morphologically homogeneous, but genetically heterogeneous DE neuromuscular disorders. The morphologic changes in skeletal muscle DE result from disintegration of the sarcomeric Z disc and the DE myofibrils, followed by abnormal ectopic accumulation of multiple DE proteins involved in the structure of the Z disc. Clinical DE manifestations are variable and can involve the skeletal, cardiac and DE smooth muscle. HI Disease: Myofibrillar myopathy. CA Disease. // ID Myogenesis. AC KW-0517 DE Protein involved in the differentiation and development of the muscle. DE Myogenesis is controlled by myogenic factors, a family of muscle- DE specific transcription factors that contain a conserved helix-loop- DE helix domain which is homologous to the myc family of proteins. SY Muscle development; Muscle formation. GO GO:0007517; muscle organ development HI Biological process: Myogenesis. CA Biological process. // ID Myosin. AC KW-0518 DE A motor protein which uses the energy provided by the hydrolysis of DE ATP to drive movements along actin filaments. Different types of DE myosin are found in eukaryotic cells. GO GO:0016459; myosin complex HI Molecular function: Motor protein; Myosin. CA Molecular function. // ID Myotoxin. AC KW-0959 DE Protein which causes muscle necrosis. Myotoxins are principally found DE in snake venoms. The myotoxic activity can be monitored by DE morphological analysis and by the increase of plasma creatine kinase DE (CK) activity. The increase in plasma CK levels results from DE sarcolemmal damage due to myotoxic components of the venom. HI Molecular function: Toxin; Myotoxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Myristate. AC KW-0519 DE Protein which is posttranslationally modified by the attachment of at DE least one myristate group. The myristate (14-carbon saturated fatty DE acid) group is attached through an amide bond to the N-terminal DE glycine residue of the mature form of a protein or to an internal DE lysine residue. Myristoylproteins may be cytoplasmic or membrane- DE associated. SY Myristylated; n-tetradecanoate. HI PTM: Lipoprotein; Myristate. CA PTM. // ID NAD. AC KW-0520 DE Enzymes which use NAD(H) as an electron acceptor or as a cofactor. DE Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, an important redox coenzyme that DE participates in a variety of enzymatic reactions in which it serves as DE an electron carrier by being alternately oxidized (NAD+) and reduced DE (NADH). NAD also functions as an ADP-ribose donor in ADP-ribosylation DE reactions. SY Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide; Nicotinic adenine dinucleotide. HI Ligand: NAD. CA Ligand. // ID NADP. AC KW-0521 DE Enzymes which use NADP(H) as an electron acceptor or as a cofactor. DE Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate, a redox coenzyme that DE participates in a variety of enzymatic reactions in which it serves as DE an electron carrier by being alternately oxidized (NADP+) and reduced DE (NADPH). Analogue of NAD, but NADPH is used extensively in DE biosynthetic, rather than catabolic pathways as well as in DE photosynthesis. SY Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate; SY Nicotinic adenine dinucleotide phosphate. HI Ligand: NADP. CA Ligand. // ID Necrosis. AC KW-1210 DE Protein involved in necrotic programmed cell death. Necrosis is a form DE of traumatic cell death that results from acute cellular injury due DE infection, toxins, trauma, etc. Necrosis is characterized by blebbing, DE mitochondrial fission, loss of cell membrane integrity and an DE uncontrolled release of products of cell death into the intracellular DE space. This initiates an inflammatory response in the surrounding DE tissue often resulting is a build-up of dead tissue and cell debris DE at, or near, the site of the cell death. SY Necroptosis; Necrotic cell death; Necrotic programmed cell death. GO GO:0012501; programmed cell death HI Biological process: Necrosis. CA Biological process. // ID Nemaline myopathy. AC KW-1057 DE Protein which, if defective, causes nemaline myopathy, a hereditary DE neuromuscular disorder characterized by generally non-progressive DE muscle weakness of varying severity, and abnormal thread- or rod-like DE structures in muscle fibers on histologic examination. The age of DE onset varies from birth to adulthood. The main clinical manifestations DE include weakness (usually most severe in the face, the neck flexors, DE and the proximal limb muscles), hypotonia, and depressed or absent DE deep tendon reflexes. Nemaline myopathy is divided into several broad DE groups classified by onset and severity of motor and respiratory DE involvement. SY NEM; NM; Rod body myopathy; Rod myopathy. HI Disease: Nemaline myopathy. CA Disease. // ID Nematocyst. AC KW-0166 DE Protein localized in the nematocyst, an organelle found in nematoblast DE (cnidoblast) cells. When matured, these stinging organelles store DE toxins and can deliver them when the cnidocil (a short extension of DE the nematocyst) is stimulated by a prey or another stimulus. These DE proteins are principally found in anemones and jellyfishes. SY Cnidocyst. GO GO:0042151; nematocyst HI Cellular component: Nematocyst. CA Cellular component. // ID Nephronophthisis. AC KW-0983 DE Protein which, if defective, causes nephronophthisis, a chronic DE tubulo-interstitial nephritis that progresses to end-stage renal DE failure. Clinical features include anemia, polyuria, polydipsia, DE isosthenuria, and death in uremia. Some children present with DE extrarenal symptoms such as tapeto-retinal degeneration, mental DE retardation, cerebellar ataxia, bone anomalies or liver involvement. SY NPHP. HI Disease: Nephronophthisis. CA Disease. // ID Neurodegeneration. AC KW-0523 DE Protein which, if defective, causes neurodegeneration. HI Disease: Neurodegeneration. CA Disease. // ID Neurogenesis. AC KW-0524 DE Protein involved in neurogenesis, which involves the differentiation DE and development of the nervous system. SY Nervous system development; Nervous system formation. GO GO:0007399; nervous system development HI Biological process: Neurogenesis. CA Biological process. // ID Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis. AC KW-0525 DE Protein which, if defective, causes neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, a DE group of neurodegenerative, lysosome storage disorders characterized DE by intracellular accumulation of autofluorescent wax-like lipid DE materials in brain and other tissues. Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses DE are associated with variable yet progressive symptoms including DE seizures, dementia, visual loss, and/or cerebral atrophy. SY CLN; NCL. HI Disease: Neurodegeneration; Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis. CA Disease. // ID Neuropathy. AC KW-0622 DE Protein which, if defective, causes neuropathy, a functional DE disturbance or pathological change in the peripheral nervous system, DE sometimes limited to non-inflammatory lesions as opposed to those of DE neuritis. Neuropathies affecting a specific nerve may be named for the DE nerve. The terms mononeuropathy and polyneuropathy may be used to DE denote whether one or several nerves are involved. HI Disease: Neuropathy. CA Disease. // ID Neuropeptide. AC KW-0527 DE Peptides released by neurons as intercellular messengers. Many DE neuropeptides are also hormones released by non-neuronal cells. They DE have direct synaptic effects (peptide neurotransmitters) or indirect DE modulatory effects on the nervous system (peptide neuromodulators). GO GO:0007218; neuropeptide signaling pathway HI Molecular function: Neuropeptide. CA Molecular function. // ID Neurotoxin. AC KW-0528 DE Proteins, often exquisitely toxic, that inhibit neuronal function. DE Neurotoxins act typically against sodium channels or block or enhance DE synaptic transmission. Most venoms contain neurotoxic substances. HI Molecular function: Toxin; Neurotoxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Neurotransmitter. AC KW-0529 DE Protein, released by the axon terminal in response to an electrical DE impulse, which travels across the synapse to either excite or inhibit DE the target cell. GO GO:0007268; chemical synaptic transmission HI Molecular function: Neurotransmitter. CA Molecular function. // ID Neurotransmitter biosynthesis. AC KW-0530 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of neurotransmitters. The proteins DE are released by the axon terminal in response to an electrical impulse DE and travel across the synapse to either excite or inhibit the target DE cell. SY Neurotransmitter anabolism; Neurotransmitter biosynthetic process; SY Neurotransmitter formation; Neurotransmitter synthesis. HI Biological process: Neurotransmitter biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Neurotransmitter degradation. AC KW-0531 DE Protein involved in the breakdown of neurotransmitters. The proteins DE are released by the axon terminal in response to an electrical impulse DE and travel across the synapse to either excite or inhibit the target DE cell. SY Neurotransmitter breakdown; Neurotransmitter catabolic process; SY Neurotransmitter catabolism. HI Biological process: Neurotransmitter degradation. CA Biological process. // ID Neurotransmitter transport. AC KW-0532 DE Protein involved in the transport of neurotransmitters. The proteins DE are released by the axon terminal in response to an electrical impulse DE and travel across the synapse to either excite or inhibit the target DE cell. GO GO:0006836; neurotransmitter transport HI Biological process: Transport; Neurotransmitter transport. CA Biological process. // ID Nickel. AC KW-0533 DE Protein which binds at least one nickel atom, or protein whose DE function is nickel-dependent. Nickel is a metal, chemical symbol Ni. SY Ni; Ni cation; Nickel cation; Nickel ion; Ni ion. HI Ligand: Nickel. WW https://www.webelements.com/nickel/ CA Ligand. // ID Nickel insertion. AC KW-0996 DE Protein which is involved in the creation and/or insertion of a nickel DE metallocenter into another protein, without necessarily binding the DE metal itself. SY Ni insertion. HI Biological process: Nickel insertion. CA Biological process. // ID Nickel transport. AC KW-0921 DE Protein involved in the transport of nickel. SY Nickel cation transport; Nickel ion transport; Ni transport. GO GO:0015675; nickel cation transport HI Biological process: Transport; Ion transport; Nickel transport. HI Ligand: Nickel; Nickel transport. CA Biological process. // ID Niemann-Pick disease. AC KW-1054 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Niemann-Pick disease. Niemann-Pick DE disease comprises an inherited group of congenital lipidoses in which DE sphingolipids accumulate in cells, especially in the DE reticuloendothelial system, due to defective lysosomal storage. The DE disease is clinically characterized by progressive degeneration of the DE central nervous system with visceral accumulation of cholesterol and DE sphingomyelin. The clinical phenotype is highly variable and different DE types are distinguished by age of onset, degree of central nervous DE system involvement and by the amount of sphingomyelin DE phosphodiesterase activity. SY Niemann's disease; NPD. HI Disease: Niemann-Pick disease. CA Disease. // ID Nitrate assimilation. AC KW-0534 DE Protein involved in the uptake, from the environment, of nitrates, DE inorganic or organic salts and esters of nitric acid. This includes DE the uptake and transport into cells by nitrate transporters, with the DE sequential reduction to nitrite and ammonium, catalyzed by the enzymes DE nitrate reductase and nitrite reductase, respectively. GO GO:0042128; nitrate assimilation HI Biological process: Nitrate assimilation. CA Biological process. // ID Nitration. AC KW-0944 DE Protein which is posttranslationally modified by replacement of a DE hydrogen on an aromatic ring of one or more tyrosine or tryptophan DE residues by a nitro (NO2) group. SY Nitrated. HI PTM: Nitration. CA PTM. // ID Nitrogen fixation. AC KW-0535 DE Protein involved in nitrogen fixation, the reduction of gaseous DE nitrogen to ammonia. This process is carried out only by prokaryotes DE who are either free-living or form symbiotic associations with plants DE or other organisms (e.g. termites, protozoa). GO GO:0009399; nitrogen fixation HI Biological process: Nitrogen fixation. CA Biological process. // ID Nodulation. AC KW-0536 DE Protein involved in nodulation, the formation of nitrogen-fixing DE nodules on roots of both leguminous plants and the Parasponia genus. GO GO:0009877; nodulation HI Biological process: Nodulation. CA Biological process. // ID Non-syndromic deafness. AC KW-1010 DE Protein which, if defective, causes inability to hear in the absence DE of other clinical signs and symptoms. Most forms of non-syndromic DE deafness are associated with permanent hearing loss caused by damage DE to structures in the inner ear. SY Isolated deafness. HI Disease: Deafness; Non-syndromic deafness. CA Disease. // ID Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. AC KW-0866 DE Protein involved in nonsense-mediated messenger RNA (mRNA) decay, a DE critical process of selective degradation of mRNAs that contain DE premature stop codons. SY NMD. GO GO:0000184; nuclear-transcribed mRNA catabolic process, nonsense-mediated decay HI Biological process: Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. CA Biological process. // ID Notch signaling pathway. AC KW-0914 DE Protein involved in the Notch signaling, a signaling pathway involved DE in cell-cell communications that regulates a broad spectrum of cell- DE fate determinations. Notch proteins are transmembrane receptors, which DE are cleaved by the gamma-secretase complex upon activation and DE released from the cell membrane and turn into transcriptional DE activators after their association with SU(H) proteins. GO GO:0007219; Notch signaling pathway HI Biological process: Notch signaling pathway. CA Biological process. // ID Nuclear pore complex. AC KW-0906 DE Protein associated predominantly with the nuclear pore complex (NPC). DE NPCs constitute the exclusive means of nucleocytoplasmic transport in DE eukaryotes during interphase. NPCs allow the passive diffusion of ions DE and small molecules (up to about 20 kDa or 5 nm) and the active, DE nuclear transport receptor (karyopherin: importin and exportin)- DE mediated bidirectional transport of macromolecules such as proteins, DE RNAs, ribonucleoprotein (RNPs), and ribosomal subunits (up to about 10 DE MDa) across the double-membrane nuclear envelope. NPC components, DE collectively referred to as nucleoporins (NUPs), can play the role of DE both NPC structural components and of docking or interaction partners DE for transiently associated nuclear transport factors. The NPC is DE composed of at least 30 distinct subunits, shows 8-fold rotational DE symmetry with specialized structures on the cyto- and nucleoplasmic DE side and in the nuclear envelope embedded core. The MW varies from DE about 44-60 MDa in S. cerevisiae to 60-120 MDa in vertebrates, yet the DE overall architecture is conserved. SY NPC; Nuclear pore. GO GO:0005643; nuclear pore HI Biological process: Transport; mRNA transport; Nuclear pore complex. HI Cellular component: Nucleus; Nuclear pore complex. HI Biological process: Transport; Protein transport; Translocation; Nuclear pore complex. WW http://npd.hgu.mrc.ac.uk/user/compartment?page=nuc_pore CA Cellular component. // ID Nuclease. AC KW-0540 DE Enzyme that degrades nucleic acids into shorter oligonucleotides or DE single nucleotide subunits by hydrolyzing sugar-phosphate bonds in the DE nucleic acid backbone. GO GO:0004518; nuclease activity HI Molecular function: Hydrolase; Nuclease. CA Molecular function. // ID Nucleomorph. AC KW-0542 DE Protein associated with the nucleomorph. A nucleomorph is a remnant DE nucleus found between the outer two and inner two membranes of the DE plastid in cryptomonads and chlorarachniophyte algae. GO GO:0033009; nucleomorph HI Cellular component: Nucleomorph. CA Cellular component. // ID Nucleosome core. AC KW-0544 DE Protein characteristic of the nucleosome, a repeating structural unit DE in chromatin that packages DNA to give the chromatin a 'beads-on-a- DE string' appearance. Each repeat consists of approximately 146 base DE pairs of DNA wound around a disk-shaped protein core which is composed DE of two of each of the nucleosomal histones H2A, H2B, H3 and H4. GO GO:0000786; nucleosome HI Cellular component: Chromosome; Nucleosome core. HI Molecular function: DNA-binding; Nucleosome core. CA Cellular component. // ID Nucleotide biosynthesis. AC KW-0545 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of a nucleotide, a phosphate ester DE of a nucleoside consisting of a purine or pyrimidine base linked to DE ribose or deoxyribose phosphates. SY Nucleotide anabolism; Nucleotide biosynthetic process; SY Nucleotide formation; Nucleotide synthesis. GO GO:0009165; nucleotide biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Nucleotide biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Nucleotide metabolism. AC KW-0546 DE Protein involved in the biochemical reactions of nucleotides. DE Nucleotides are phosphate esters of a nucleoside consisting of a DE purine or pyrimidine base linked to ribose or deoxyribose phosphates. SY Nucleotide metabolic process. GO GO:0009117; nucleotide metabolic process HI Biological process: Nucleotide metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Nucleotide-binding. AC KW-0547 DE Protein which binds a nucleotide, a phosphate ester of a nucleoside DE consisting of a purine or pyrimidine base linked to ribose or DE deoxyribose phosphates. GO GO:0000166; nucleotide binding HI Ligand: Nucleotide-binding. CA Ligand. // ID Nucleotidyltransferase. AC KW-0548 DE Enzyme which transfers a nucleotide from one compound to another. GO GO:0016779; nucleotidyltransferase activity HI Molecular function: Transferase; Nucleotidyltransferase. CA Molecular function. // ID Nucleus. AC KW-0539 DE Protein located in the nucleus of a cell. GO GO:0005634; nucleus HI Cellular component: Nucleus. CA Cellular component. // ID Nylon degradation. AC KW-0549 DE Protein involved in the degradation of nylon, a polymer whose main DE chain comprises recurrent amide groups. These compounds are generally DE formed from combinations of diamines, diacids and amino acids. SY Nylon breakdown; Nylon catabolic process; Nylon catabolism. GO GO:0019876; nylon catabolic process HI Biological process: Nylon degradation. CA Biological process. // ID Obesity. AC KW-0550 DE Protein which, if defective, causes obesity, a disorder characterized DE by excessive deposition of fat. HI Disease: Obesity. CA Disease. // ID Olfaction. AC KW-0552 DE Protein involved in olfaction, the process of smelling. GO GO:0007608; sensory perception of smell HI Biological process: Sensory transduction; Olfaction. CA Biological process. // ID Oncogene. AC KW-0553 DE Protein encoded by an oncogene, which promotes cell transformation. DE Examples include viral homologs of cellular proto-oncogenes such as DE the transcription factors v-myc and v-jun, the growth factor v-fgr, DE the regulatory GTPase v-ras, and papillomavirus protein E6. SY Oncoprotein. HI Disease: Oncogene. CA Disease. // ID One-carbon metabolism. AC KW-0554 DE Protein involved in the biochemical reactions with one-carbon groups, DE e.g., methyl and formyl groups. SY One-carbon compound metabolic process. GO GO:0006730; one-carbon metabolic process HI Biological process: One-carbon metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Oogenesis. AC KW-0896 DE Protein involved in egg development and maturation. A process whereby DE primordial germ cells form mature ova. GO GO:0048477; oogenesis HI Biological process: Differentiation; Oogenesis. CA Biological process. // ID Opioid peptide. AC KW-0555 DE Endogenous peptides with opiate-like activity. GO GO:0001515; opioid peptide activity HI Molecular function: Opioid peptide. CA Molecular function. // ID Organellar chromatophore. AC KW-0994 DE Protein encoded by the organellar chromatophore genome or a protein DE targeted to the organellar chromatophore. The organellar chromatophore DE is the photosynthetic inclusion found in Paulinella species, which are DE photosynthetic thecate amoeba. It probably derives from a different DE endosymbiotic event than that which led to all other plastids. Houses DE the machinery necessary for photosynthesis and CO(2) fixation; it also DE has the genetic capacity to synthesize some amino acids, some fatty DE acids and a few cofactors. It contains thylakoid membranes, and a DE residual peptidoglycan wall between the 2 envelope membranes. There DE are 1 or 2 chromatophores per cell. GO GO:0070111; organellar chromatophore HI Cellular component: Plastid; Organellar chromatophore. CA Cellular component. // ID Organic radical. AC KW-0556 DE Protein which is posttranslationally modified by the formation of a DE stable radical. E.g., P09373 is posttranslationally interconverted, DE under anaerobic conditions, from an inactive to an active form that DE carries a stable radical localized to a specific glycine at the C- DE terminal region of the polypeptidic chain. HI PTM: Organic radical. CA PTM. // ID Osteogenesis. AC KW-0892 DE Protein involved in osteogenesis, the mechanism of bone formation DE wether intramembranous or endochondral. In intramembranous DE ossification, bone is formed by differentiation of mesenchymal cells DE into osteoblasts with absence of a cartilaginous model. The flat bones DE of the skull, the sternum, and the scapula are examples of bones that DE develop by intramembranous ossification. The term endochondral refers DE to the close association of the developing bone with the pre-existing DE hyaline cartilage model of that bone. The long bones of the limbs DE (including the phalanges) and the ribs develop by endochondral DE ossification. SY Bone formation; Ossification. GO GO:0001503; ossification HI Biological process: Osteogenesis. CA Biological process. // ID Osteogenesis imperfecta. AC KW-1065 DE Protein which, if defective, causes osteogenesis imperfecta, a bone DE disorder characterized by low bone mass, and brittle, osteoporotic and DE easily fractured bones. It may also present with blue sclerae, loose DE joints, and imperfect dentin formation. SY Brittle bone disease; Fragilitas ostium; Glass bone disease; SY Lobstein's disease; Lobstein disease. HI Disease: Osteogenesis imperfecta. CA Disease. // ID Osteopetrosis. AC KW-0987 DE Protein which, if defective, causes osteopetrosis, an hereditary DE disorder characterized by abnormally dense bone due to reduced bone DE resorption, and by the common occurrence of fractures of affected DE bones. HI Disease: Osteopetrosis. CA Disease. // ID Outer capsid protein. AC KW-1152 DE Viral protein that is a component of the outer layer of a double or DE triple concentric icosahedral capsid. Outer capsids are part of DE reoviridae and cystoviridae virions. GO GO:0039624; viral outer capsid HI Cellular component: Virion; Capsid protein; Outer capsid protein. CA Cellular component. // ID Oxidation. AC KW-0558 DE Protein which is posttranslationally modified by oxidation of a DE residue. HI PTM: Oxidation. CA PTM. // ID Oxidoreductase. AC KW-0560 DE Enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of one compound with the reduction DE of another. GO GO:0016491; oxidoreductase activity HI Molecular function: Oxidoreductase. CA Molecular function. // ID Oxygen transport. AC KW-0561 DE Protein involved in the transport of oxygen (e.g. hemoglobin and DE myoglobin). GO GO:0005344; oxygen carrier activity GO GO:0015671; oxygen transport HI Biological process: Transport; Oxygen transport. CA Biological process. // ID Oxylipin biosynthesis. AC KW-0925 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of oxygenated fatty acids DE (oxylipins), including jasmonic acid (jasmonate) (JA) and its DE derivatives. Oxylipins regulate many defense and developmental DE pathways in plants. JA is involved in wound-mediated signaling DE pathways, plant defense, and reproductive development. It acts as a DE growth inhibitor and promotes senescence. SY Oxylipin anabolism; Oxylipin biosynthetic process; Oxylipin formation; SY Oxylipin synthesis. GO GO:0031408; oxylipin biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Fatty acid metabolism; Fatty acid biosynthesis; Oxylipin biosynthesis. HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Lipid biosynthesis; Fatty acid biosynthesis; Oxylipin biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Pair-rule protein. AC KW-0562 DE A protein encoded by a pair-rule gene. These are developmental genes DE in Drosophila involved in delimiting segments in the early embryos. DE Mutations in pair rule genes affect every alternate segment. GO GO:0007275; multicellular organism development GO GO:0007366; periodic partitioning by pair rule gene HI Molecular function: Developmental protein; Pair-rule protein. CA Molecular function. // ID Paired box. AC KW-0563 DE Protein which contains a paired box domain, a conserved domain of DE about 120 amino acids, which is generally located in the N-terminal DE section of various proteins. HI Domain: Paired box. CA Domain. // ID Palmitate. AC KW-0564 DE Protein which is posttranslationally modified by the attachment of at DE least one palmitate group. The palmitate (16-carbon saturated fatty DE acid) group is usually attached to cysteine via a thioester bond. DE Lysine, serine and threonine may also serve as palmitate acceptors. DE Many palmitoylproteins are membrane associated either directly through DE the palmitate moiety or as transmembrane proteins anchored by the DE fatty acid. However, a few are actually secreted from cells. SY n-hexadecanoate; Palmitoylated. HI PTM: Lipoprotein; Palmitate. CA PTM. // ID Palmoplantar keratoderma. AC KW-1007 DE Protein which, if defective, causes hereditary palmoplantar DE keratoderma (PPK), a genetically and clinically diverse group of DE cutaneous disorders characterized by abnormal thickening of the skin DE on the palms and soles. It results from excessive keratin formation DE leading to hypertrophy of the stratum corneum (hyperkeratosis). PPKs DE are distinguished from each other on the basis of mode of inheritance, DE presence of transgrediens (defined as contiguous extension of DE hyperkeratosis beyond the palmar and/or plantar skin), association DE with other skin findings and/or abnormalities of other organs, and DE extent of epidermal involvement (diffuse, focal, punctate). Diffuse DE PPK is characterized by uniform involvement of the palmoplantar DE surface; focal PPK consists of localized areas of hyperkeratosis DE located mainly on pressure points and sites of recurrent friction; DE punctate PPK shows multiple small, hyperkeratotic papules or nodules DE on the palms and soles. SY Hyperkeratosis palmaris et plantaris; SY Keratoderma palmaris et plantaris; Keratosis palmoplantaris; SY Palmoplantar keratosis; PPK. HI Disease: Palmoplantar keratoderma. CA Disease. // ID Pantothenate biosynthesis. AC KW-0566 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of pantothenate. SY Pantothenate anabolism; Pantothenate biosynthetic process; SY Pantothenate formation; Pantothenate synthesis. GO GO:0015940; pantothenate biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Pantothenate biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Parkinson disease. AC KW-0907 DE Protein which, if defective, causes classic Parkinson disease. DE Parkinson disease is a complex multifactorial neurodegenerative DE disorder, usually occurring in late life, although an early onset and DE a juvenile form are known. Typical features are masklike facies, DE tremor of resting muscles, a slowing of voluntary movements DE (bradykinesia), festinating gait and postural instability. The signs DE and symptoms of the disease are the consequence of a striatal DE deficiency of dopamine, resulting from neuronal death in the DE substantia nigra. Parkinson disease is characterized by the presence DE of Lewy bodies, intraneuronal inclusions found in many brain regions DE which are not entirely specific to, but are a highly sensitive marker DE for, Parkinson disease. SY Paralysis agitans; Parkinson's disease; PD. HI Disease: Parkinson disease. CA Disease. // ID Parkinsonism. AC KW-0908 DE Protein which, if defective, causes parkinsonism. Parkinsonism refers DE to disorders, both genetic and non-genetic, characterized by four DE primary parkinsonian symptoms: tremor, rigidity, postural instability DE and bradykinesia, resulting from the loss or dysfunction of dopamine- DE producing neurons in the substantia nigra. Lewy bodies, intraneuronal DE accumulations of aggregated proteins, may or may not be present in the DE brain of the patients. HI Disease: Parkinsonism. CA Disease. // ID Pathogenesis-related protein. AC KW-0568 DE Protein induced in several plant species when they are infected by DE viruses, viroids, fungi or bacteria. The occurrence of these proteins DE is not pathogen-specific, but determined by the type of reaction of DE the host plant. They form a protective barrier against pathogens by DE collecting at infection sites and act to decrease susceptibility of DE plants. They may have anti-fungal or anti-bacterial activity. SY PR protein. GO GO:0009607; response to biotic stimulus HI Biological process: Plant defense; Pathogenesis-related protein. HI Molecular function: Pathogenesis-related protein. CA Molecular function. // ID Pentose shunt. AC KW-0570 DE Protein involved in the pentose shunt, the biochemical pathway in DE which glucose-6-phosphate is oxidized to 6-phosphogluconate with the DE production of NADPH. Then 6-phosphogluconate is converted to ribulose- DE 5-phosphate and CO2 and a second molecule of NADH. This pathway is an DE important source of NADPH and ribose-5-phosphate. SY Hexose monophosphate pathway; Pentose phosphate pathway; SY Phosphogluconate oxidative pathway. GO GO:0006098; pentose-phosphate shunt HI Biological process: Pentose shunt. CA Biological process. // ID Peptide transport. AC KW-0571 DE Protein involved in the transport of peptides. GO GO:0015833; peptide transport HI Biological process: Transport; Protein transport; Peptide transport. CA Biological process. // ID Peptidoglycan synthesis. AC KW-0573 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of peptidoglycan which consists of a DE glycosaminoglycan formed by alternating residues of D-glucosamine and DE either muramic acid {2-amino-3-O-[(R)-1-carboxyethyl]-2-deoxy-D- DE glucose} or L-talosaminuronic acid (2-amino-2-deoxy-L-taluronic acid), DE which are usually N-acetylated or N-glycoloylated. The carboxyl group DE of the muramic acid is commonly substituted by a peptide containing DE residues of both L- and D-amino acids, whereas that of L- DE talosaminuronic acid is substituted by a peptide consisting of L-amino DE acids only. These peptide units may be cross-linked by a peptide bond, DE thereby giving rise to a giant macromolecule that forms the rigid cell DE wall (sacculus or murein sacculus). This macromolecule is known to DE occur as a monomolecular layer between the inner and outer membrane in DE Gram-negative bacteria and as a multimolecular layer, often associated DE covalently or non-covalently with various additional compounds DE (teichoic acids, neutral polysaccharides. etc.) in Gram-positive DE bacteria. In the archaebacteria, several organisms contain a DE peptidoglycan, also called pseudomurein, which differs in certain DE respects from those of the eubacteria. SY Murein anabolism; Murein biosynthesis; Murein biosynthetic process; SY Murein formation; Murein synthesis; Peptidoglycan anabolism; SY Peptidoglycan biosynthesis; Peptidoglycan biosynthetic process; SY Peptidoglycan formation; Pseudomurein anabolism; SY Pseudomurein biosynthesis; Pseudomurein biosynthetic process; SY Pseudomurein formation; Pseudomurein synthesis. GO GO:0009252; peptidoglycan biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Cell shape; Peptidoglycan synthesis. HI Biological process: Peptidoglycan synthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Peptidoglycan-anchor. AC KW-0572 DE Protein that is covalently anchored to the peptidoglycan of a cell DE wall envelope. In Gram-positive bacteria, binding proceeds through a DE transpeptidation mechanism which requires a C-terminal sorting signal DE with a conserved LPXTG or LPXAG motif; an amide bond is created DE between the alpha-carboxyl group of the conserved threonine, DE alternatively alanine, and the amino group of peptidoglycan cross- DE bridges. In Gram-negative bacteria, binding proceeds through the DE formation of an isopeptide bond between the epsilon-amino group of a DE lysine and the alpha-carboxyl group of a peptidoglycan diaminopimelic DE acid. HI PTM: Peptidoglycan-anchor. CA PTM. // ID Periplasm. AC KW-0574 DE Protein located in the space between the inner membrane and the outer DE membrane (cell wall) of Gram negative bacteria and some eukaryotic DE algae. Also used for proteins located in the region between the plasma DE membrane and the cell wall in fungi. GO GO:0042597; periplasmic space HI Cellular component: Periplasm. CA Cellular component. // ID Peroxidase. AC KW-0575 DE Enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of a substrate by reducing DE peroxide to water. These enzymes are often located in peroxisomes. GO GO:0004601; peroxidase activity HI Molecular function: Oxidoreductase; Peroxidase. CA Molecular function. // ID Peroxisome. AC KW-0576 DE Protein found in or associated with the peroxisome, a small eukaryotic DE organelle limited by a single membrane, specialized for carrying out DE oxidative reactions. Contains mainly peroxidases, several other DE oxidases and catalase. The catalase regulates the contents of the DE produced toxic hydrogen peroxide thus protecting the cell. Beta- DE oxidation of fatty acids is another major function of peroxisomes. In DE plants and fungi this degradation occurs only in this cellular DE compartment. GO GO:0005777; peroxisome HI Cellular component: Peroxisome. CA Cellular component. // ID Peroxisome biogenesis. AC KW-0962 DE Protein which is involved in the formation, organization and DE maintenance of the peroxisome. The peroxisome is a small eukaryotic DE organelle limited by a single membrane, specialized for carrying out DE oxidative reactions. SY Peroxisome assembly; Peroxisome formation. GO GO:0007031; peroxisome organization HI Biological process: Peroxisome biogenesis. CA Biological process. // ID Peroxisome biogenesis disorder. AC KW-0958 DE Protein which, if defective, causes peroxisome biogenesis disorder, a DE group of peroxisomal disorders arising from a failure of protein DE import into the peroxisomal membrane or matrix. The PBD group is DE comprised of four disorders: Zellweger syndrome (ZWS), neonatal DE adrenoleukodystrophy (NALD), infantile Refsum disease (IRD), and DE classical rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata type 1 (RCDP1). ZWS, DE NALD and IRD are distinct from RCDP1 and constitute a clinical DE continuum of overlapping phenotypes known as Zellweger spectrum. The DE PBD group is genetically heterogeneous with at least 12 distinct DE genetic groups as concluded from complementation studies. SY PBD; Peroxisome-biogenesis disorder. HI Disease: Peroxisome biogenesis disorder. CA Disease. // ID Peters anomaly. AC KW-1059 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Peters anomaly, an ocular disorder DE characterized by congenital central corneal leukoma, absence of the DE posterior corneal stroma and Descemet membrane, and a variable degree DE of iris and lenticular attachments to the central aspect of the DE posterior cornea. HI Disease: Peters anomaly. CA Disease. // ID PHA biosynthesis. AC KW-0577 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of poly(3-hydroxyalkanoates) (PHA). DE In Pseudomonas oleovorans large amounts of this polyester are DE synthesized when cells are grown under nitrogen-limiting conditions. DE When nitrogen is further supplied in the medium, the accumulated PHA DE is degraded. SY PHA anabolism; PHA biosynthetic process; PHA formation; PHA synthesis; SY Poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate) anabolism; SY Poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate) biosynthesis; SY Poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate) biosynthetic process; SY Poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate) formation; SY Poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate) synthesis. GO GO:0042621; poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate) biosynthetic process HI Biological process: PHA biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Phagocytosis. AC KW-0581 DE Protein that is involved in phagocytosis or that renders the organism DE resistant to phagocytosis, the process by which a cell is engulfed and DE broken down by another for purposes of defense or sustenance. GO GO:0006909; phagocytosis HI Biological process: Phagocytosis. CA Biological process. // ID Pharmaceutical. AC KW-0582 DE Protein which is used or may be used as a pharmaceutical drug, e.g. to DE treat specific diseases. HI Technical term: Pharmaceutical. CA Technical term. // ID PHB biosynthesis. AC KW-0583 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of poly-hydroxybutyrate (PHB). It DE accumulates in a variety of bacteria as an energy source. This DE polyester is thermoplastic with biodegradable properties. SY PHB anabolism; PHB biosynthetic process; PHB formation; PHB synthesis; SY Poly-(3-hydroxybutyrate) anabolism; SY Poly-(3-hydroxybutyrate) biosynthesis; SY Poly-(3-hydroxybutyrate) biosynthetic process; SY Poly-(3-hydroxybutyrate) formation; SY Poly-(3-hydroxybutyrate) synthesis; SY Poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate anabolism; SY Poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate biosynthesis; SY Poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate biosynthetic process; SY Poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate formation; SY Poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate synthesis; Poly-hydroxybutyrate anabolism; SY Poly-hydroxybutyrate biosynthesis; SY Poly-hydroxybutyrate biosynthetic process; SY Poly-hydroxybutyrate formation; Poly-hydroxybutyrate synthesis. GO GO:0042619; poly-hydroxybutyrate biosynthetic process HI Biological process: PHB biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Phenylalanine biosynthesis. AC KW-0584 DE Protein involved in the biosynthesis of the aromatic amino acid DE phenylalanine. SY Phenylalanine anabolism; Phenylalanine biosynthetic process; SY Phenylalanine formation; Phenylalanine synthesis. GO GO:0009094; L-phenylalanine biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Amino-acid biosynthesis; Aromatic amino acid biosynthesis; Phenylalanine biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Phenylalanine catabolism. AC KW-0585 DE Protein involved in the degradation of the aromatic amino acid DE phenylalanine. SY Phenylalanine breakdown; Phenylalanine catabolic process; SY Phenylalanine degradation. GO GO:0006559; L-phenylalanine catabolic process HI Biological process: Phenylalanine catabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Phenylketonuria. AC KW-0586 DE Protein which, if defective, causes phenylketonuria, an autosomal DE recessive disorder in which the body is unable to break down the amino DE acid phenylalanine. The resulting buildup of phenylalanine in the body DE causes intellectual disability, mental disturbances, eczema and skin DE pigmentation. HI Disease: Phenylketonuria. CA Disease. // ID Phenylpropanoid metabolism. AC KW-0587 DE Protein involved in the biochemical reactions with phenylpropanoids. SY Phenylpropanoid metabolic process. GO GO:0009698; phenylpropanoid metabolic process HI Biological process: Phenylpropanoid metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Pheromone. AC KW-0588 DE Proteins which acts as a pheromone. Pheromones are odours of DE conspecifics which elicit an adaptive behavioral response, e.g. insect DE sex pheromones. Generally, they are comprised of mixtures of compounds DE and behavioral responsiveness to them is largely instinctual, DE sexually-dimorphic, and attributable to a specialized component(s) of DE the olfactory system. GO GO:0005186; pheromone activity HI Molecular function: Pheromone. CA Molecular function. // ID Pheromone response. AC KW-0589 DE Protein involved in the pheromone response. SY Pheromone response pathway; Response to pheromone. GO GO:0019236; response to pheromone HI Biological process: Pheromone response. CA Biological process. // ID Pheromone-binding. AC KW-0590 DE Protein which binds pheromones, the odours of conspecifics which DE elicit an adaptive behavioral response, e.g. insect sex pheromones. GO GO:0005550; pheromone binding HI Ligand: Pheromone-binding. CA Ligand. // ID Phosphate transport. AC KW-0592 DE Protein involved in the transport of phosphate. GO GO:0006817; phosphate ion transport HI Biological process: Transport; Phosphate transport. CA Biological process. // ID Phospholipase A2 inhibitor. AC KW-0593 DE Protein which inhibits phospholipase A2 (EC 3.1.1.4) (PA2), an enzyme DE which releases fatty acids from the second carbon group of glycerol. DE Phospholipase A2 inhibitors are widely distributed in venoms and DE digestive secretions. GO GO:0019834; phospholipase A2 inhibitor activity HI Molecular function: Phospholipase A2 inhibitor. CA Molecular function. // ID Phospholipid biosynthesis. AC KW-0594 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of phospholipids, the major lipid DE component of most cellular membranes. Phospholipids are usually DE composed of two fatty acid chains esterified to two of the carbons of DE glycerol phosphate, the phosphate being esterified to a hydroxyl group DE of another hydrophilic compound, such as choline, ethanolamine or DE serine. SY Phospholipid anabolism; Phospholipid biosynthetic process; SY Phospholipid formation; Phospholipid synthesis. GO GO:0008654; phospholipid biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Lipid biosynthesis; Phospholipid biosynthesis. HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Phospholipid metabolism; Phospholipid biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Phospholipid degradation. AC KW-0595 DE Protein involved in the breakdown of phospholipids, the major lipid DE component of most cellular membranes. Phospholipids are usually DE composed of two fatty acid chains esterified to two of the carbons of DE glycerol phosphate, the phosphate being esterified to a hydroxyl group DE of another hydrophilic compound, such as choline, ethanolamine or DE serine. SY Phospholipid breakdown; Phospholipid catabolic process; SY Phospholipid catabolism. GO GO:0009395; phospholipid catabolic process HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Lipid degradation; Phospholipid degradation. HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Phospholipid metabolism; Phospholipid degradation. CA Biological process. // ID Phospholipid metabolism. AC KW-1208 DE Protein involved in the metabolism of phospholipids, the major lipid DE component of most cellular membranes. Phospholipids are usually DE composed of two fatty acid chains esterified to two of the carbons of DE glycerol phosphate, the phosphate being esterified to a hydroxyl group DE of another hydrophilic compound, such as choline, ethanolamine or DE serine. SY Phospholipid metabolic process. HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Phospholipid metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Phosphonate transport. AC KW-0918 DE Protein involved in the transport of phosphonates. Phosphonates are a DE class of organophosphorus compounds characterized by a chemically DE stable carbon-to-phosphorus (C-P) bond. Phosphonates are widespread DE among naturally occurring compounds in all kingdoms of wildlife, but DE only prokaryotic microorganisms are able to cleave this bond. Certain DE bacteria such as Escherichia coli can use alkylphosphonates as a DE phosphorus source. GO GO:0015716; organic phosphonate transport HI Biological process: Transport; Phosphonate transport. CA Biological process. // ID Phosphopantetheine. AC KW-0596 DE Protein which contains at least one phosphopantetheine as the DE prosthetic group. In acyl carrier proteins (ACP) for example, it DE serves as a 'swinging arm' for the attachment of activated fatty acid DE and amino-acid groups. SY Pantetheine 4'phosphate. HI PTM: Phosphopantetheine. CA PTM. // ID Phosphoprotein. AC KW-0597 DE Protein which is posttranslationally modified by the attachment of DE either a single phosphate group, or of a complex molecule, such as 5'- DE phospho-DNA, through a phosphate group. Target amino acid is usually DE serine, threonine or tyrosine residues (mostly in eukaryotes), DE aspartic acid or histidine residues (mostly in prokaryotes). SY Phosphorylation. HI PTM: Phosphoprotein. CA PTM. // ID Phosphotransferase system. AC KW-0598 DE Protein involved in the phosphotransferase system, the major DE carbohydrate transport system in bacteria. This phosphotransferase DE system catalyzes the transfer of the phosphoryl group from DE phosphoenolpyruvate to incoming sugar substrates concomitant with DE their translocation across the cell membrane. SY Phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent sugar phosphotransferase system; PTS; SY Sugar phosphotransferase system. GO GO:0009401; phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent sugar phosphotransferase system HI Biological process: Phosphotransferase system. CA Biological process. // ID Photoprotein. AC KW-0599 DE Luminescent proteins, which are involved in the phenomenon of light DE emission in certain living organisms. E.g., green fluorescent protein DE which is unique among fluorescent proteins in that its chromophore is DE not a separately synthesized prostethic group but is composed of DE modified amino acid residues within its polypeptide chain. GO GO:0008218; bioluminescence HI Biological process: Luminescence; Photoprotein. HI Molecular function: Photoprotein. CA Molecular function. // ID Photoreceptor protein. AC KW-0600 DE Protein involved in the convertion of light directly into a signal. DE These proteins are classified in a limited number of families based on DE the chemical structure of the light-absorbing chromophores involved, DE and also on protein sequence similarities to discriminate the many DE photoreceptor proteins that bind a flavin derivative. Accordingly, the DE most important families are the rhodopsins, the phytochromes, the DE xanthopsins, the cryptochromes, the phototropins and the BLUF DE proteins. SY Light-sensing protein; Photosensor protein. GO GO:0009881; photoreceptor activity HI Ligand: Chromophore; Photoreceptor protein. HI Molecular function: Receptor; Photoreceptor protein. HI Biological process: Sensory transduction; Photoreceptor protein. CA Molecular function. // ID Photorespiration. AC KW-0601 DE Protein involved in a light-dependent process to convert 2-phospho- DE glycolate (2-PG) into 3-phospho-D-glycerate (3-PG), where oxygen is DE consumed and carbon dioxide released. It takes place in plants and DE cyanobacteria during the light period, since in the presence of O(2) DE their type of Rubisco can catalyze the oxidative fragmentation of DE ribulose 1,5-biphosphate to 3-PG and 2-PG. 2-PG inhibits the Calvin DE cycle enzyme triose-phosphate isomerase, and so must be eliminated DE quickly. In plants 2-PG is recycled to 3-PG via reactions in DE peroxisomes, mitochondria as well as chloroplasts. For every 2 DE molecules of 2-PG, one molecule of 3-PG is formed and one molecule of DE CO(2) is lost. In cyanobacteria it seems there are two mechanisms to DE deal with 2-PG; a path similar to that described for plants and the DE bacterial-like glycerate pathway. GO GO:0009853; photorespiration HI Biological process: Photorespiration. CA Biological process. // ID Photosynthesis. AC KW-0602 DE Protein involved in photosynthesis, the process in which light energy DE is absorbed by photosynthetic pigments (e.g. chlorophyll) and DE converted to chemical energy (usually ATP and NADPH, =light reaction). DE This energy is subsequently used as an energy source for the reduction DE of carbon dioxide to carbohydrate (=Calvin cycle). The general DE reaction is: CO(2) + 2H(2)A = (CH(2)O) + 2A + H(2)O, where 2H(2)A is DE any reduced compound that can serve as an electron donor. In plants, DE algae and cyanobacteria H(2)O serves as a reductant, generating O(2). DE Non-oxygenic organisms use other electron donors, for example H(2)S in DE purple sulfur bacteria, generating sulfur. GO GO:0015979; photosynthesis HI Biological process: Photosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Photosystem I. AC KW-0603 DE Protein involved in photosystem I (PSI), a complex that uses light DE energy to mediate electron flow in the chloroplast thylakoid membrane DE of plants and in cyanobacteria. In linear electron flow, PSII is DE coupled to PSI and produces a pH gradient, ATP and NADPH. In cyclic DE electron flow, PSI generates a pH gradient and ATP. PSI is excited DE best by light at about 700 nm, and is thus sometimes called P700. PSI DE is an iron-sulfur type reaction center (RC), sharing a common ancestor DE with the RCs of Heliobacteriaceae, green sulfur and green non-sulfur DE bacteria. SY P700; PSI. GO GO:0009522; photosystem I HI Biological process: Photosynthesis; Photosystem I. HI Cellular component: Photosystem I. CA Cellular component. // ID Photosystem II. AC KW-0604 DE Protein involved in photosystem II (PSII), a complex that uses light DE energy to mediate electron flow in the chloroplast thylakoid membrane DE of plants and in cyanobacteria. PSII splits water, releasing hydrogen DE ions and molecular oxygen. PSII cannot use photons of a wavelength DE greater than 680 nm, and is thus sometimes called P680. PSII is a DE quinone type rection center (RC), sharing a common ancestor with the DE RCs of purple bacteria. SY P680; PSII. GO GO:0009523; photosystem II HI Biological process: Photosynthesis; Photosystem II. HI Cellular component: Photosystem II. CA Cellular component. // ID Phycobilisome. AC KW-0605 DE Protein found in phycobilisome, an accessory light energy harvesting DE structure on the outer face of the thylakoid membranes in DE cyanobacteria and red algae. Phycobilisomes are mainly composed of DE phycobiliproteins (such as allophycocyanin, phycocyanin and DE phycoerythrin) together with linker polypeptides. GO GO:0030089; phycobilisome HI Cellular component: Antenna complex; Phycobilisome. CA Cellular component. // ID Phytochrome signaling pathway. AC KW-0607 DE Protein involved in the relay of information from the activated DE phytochrome molecule to target genes. Different phytochromes use both DE separate and common early signaling pathways. These pathways converge DE downstream in a process of signal integration that regulates DE photomorphogenesis and the circadian clock. This provides the means by DE which information from specific wavelengths of light may be amplified DE and coordinated. GO GO:0009585; red, far-red light phototransduction GO GO:0010017; red or far-red light signaling pathway HI Biological process: Phytochrome signaling pathway. CA Biological process. // ID Pigment. AC KW-0608 DE Protein which binds or transport pigments, any coloring matter in DE animals, plants or microorganisms. GO GO:0031409; pigment binding HI Ligand: Pigment. CA Ligand. // ID Plant defense. AC KW-0611 DE Protein involved in plant defense, either as part of preexisting, DE developmentally regulated defense barriers (such as thionins, DE defensins or hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins fortifying the cell DE wall) or as components of the defense responses induced upon pathogen DE infection during hypersensitive cell death (HR), local acquired DE resistance (LAR) or systemic acquired resistance (SAR). This includes DE proteins involved in various pathways, such as the gene-for-gene DE resistance, the salicylic acid (SA)-dependant resistance, the DE jasmonate (JA) and/or ethylene (ET)-dependant resistance and the DE induced systemic resistance (ISR), as well as the final products of DE those pathways such as the pathogenesis-related proteins. GO GO:0006952; defense response HI Biological process: Plant defense. CA Biological process. // ID Plasmid. AC KW-0614 DE Protein encoded on a plasmid, a self-replicating circular DNA that is DE found in a variety of bacterial, archaeal, fungal, algal and plant DE species, and can be transferred from one organism to another. Plasmids DE often carry antibiotic-resistant genes and are widely used in DE molecular biology as vectors of genes and in cloning. HI Technical term: Plasmid. CA Technical term. // ID Plasmid copy control. AC KW-0615 DE Protein involved in the plasmid copy control, the ability of a plasmid DE to control its own copy number in a cell. Copy number is a function of DE the rate at which DNA synthesis is initiated. GO GO:0006276; plasmid maintenance HI Biological process: Plasmid copy control. CA Biological process. // ID Plasmid partition. AC KW-0616 DE Protein involved in plasmid partition, the process whereby newly DE replicated plasmids are distributed properly to daughter cells during DE cell division. GO GO:0030541; plasmid partitioning HI Biological process: Plasmid partition. CA Biological process. // ID Plasminogen activation. AC KW-0617 DE Protein involved in the plasminogen activation which occurs when an DE heterogeneous group of proteolytic enzymes convert plasminogen to DE plasmin. HI Biological process: Plasminogen activation. CA Biological process. // ID Plastid. AC KW-0934 DE Protein encoded by or localized in a plastid, a semi-autonomous, self- DE reproducing organelle. Plastids are remnants of a photosynthetic DE organism that was engulfed by the host, although not all are now DE photosynthetic. Plastid genomes encode genes for rRNAs, tRNAs and DE between about 28 and 150 proteins. Plastids can be categorized in 4 DE main groups: chloroplasts, cyanelles, apicoplasts and non- DE photosynthetic. The latter are found is some land plants (Epifagus DE virginiana), chlorophyte algae (Prototheca wickerhamii) and euglenoids DE (Astasis longa), which do not encode the genes necessary for DE photosynthesis and so are not photosynthetic but still contain a DE plastid. Non-photosynthetic plastids probably do not contain DE thylakoids. GO GO:0009536; plastid HI Cellular component: Plastid. CA Cellular component. // ID Plastid inner membrane. AC KW-1001 DE Protein found in or associated with the inner membrane of a plastid, DE which separates the plastid stroma from the intermembrane space. SY Inner plastidic membrane; Inner plastid membrane; SY Plastidic inner membrane. GO GO:0009528; plastid inner membrane HI Cellular component: Membrane; Plastid inner membrane. HI Cellular component: Plastid; Plastid inner membrane. CA Cellular component. // ID Plastid outer membrane. AC KW-1002 DE Protein found in or associated with the outer membrane of a plastid, DE which is the membrane facing the cytoplasm. SY Outer plastidic membrane; Outer plastid membrane; SY Plastidic outer membrane. GO GO:0009527; plastid outer membrane HI Cellular component: Membrane; Plastid outer membrane. HI Cellular component: Plastid; Plastid outer membrane. CA Cellular component. // ID Plastoquinone. AC KW-0618 DE Protein which interacts with plastoquinone, a substituted quinone DE called plastoquinone because it appeared concentrated in the DE chloroplasts of higher plants. Plastoquinone transfers electrons from DE the photosystem II reaction center to the cytochrome bf complex and DE carries protons across the photosynthetic membrane. HI Ligand: Plastoquinone. CA Ligand. // ID Platelet aggregation activating toxin. AC KW-1202 DE Toxin which induces agonist-induced platelet aggregation, the self- DE adhesion of platelets via adhesion molecules. Numerous snake venom DE families have the capacity to induce platelet aggregation. HI Molecular function: Toxin; Hemostasis impairing toxin; Platelet aggregation activating toxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Platelet aggregation inhibiting toxin. AC KW-1201 DE Toxin which inhibits agonist-induced platelet aggregation, the self- DE adhesion of platelets via adhesion molecules. Numerous snake venom DE families have the capacity to inhibit platelet aggregation. HI Molecular function: Toxin; Hemostasis impairing toxin; Platelet aggregation inhibiting toxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Polyamine biosynthesis. AC KW-0620 DE Protein involved in polyamine biosynthesis. The polyamines, e.g. DE putrescine, cadaverine, agmatine, spermidine and spermine, are wide- DE spread in all organisms, and have been shown to play a role in the DE regulation of growth and differentiation of virtually all types of DE cells. GO GO:0006596; polyamine biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Polyamine biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Polysaccharide degradation. AC KW-0624 DE Protein involved in polysaccharide degradation, the breakdown of DE polysaccharides. GO GO:0000272; polysaccharide catabolic process HI Biological process: Carbohydrate metabolism; Polysaccharide degradation. CA Biological process. // ID Polysaccharide transport. AC KW-0625 DE Protein involved in the transport of polysaccharides. GO GO:0015774; polysaccharide transport HI Biological process: Transport; Sugar transport; Polysaccharide transport. CA Biological process. // ID Pontocerebellar hypoplasia. AC KW-1021 DE Protein which, if defective, causes pontocerebellar hypoplasia, a DE heterogeneous group of congenital disorders characterized by DE hypoplasia and atrophy of the cerebellar cortex, dentate nuclei, DE pontine nuclei and inferior olives. Additional defects of other brain DE and spinal cord structures can be present, resulting in clinical DE manifestations that vary among cases. SY PCH; Pontocerebellar atrophy. HI Disease: Pontocerebellar hypoplasia. CA Disease. // ID Pore-mediated penetration of viral genome into host cell. AC KW-1172 DE Virion-associated pore-forming protein that induces the formation of a DE transmembrane pore or channel in the host membrane(s) to allow the DE viral genome to enter the host cytoplasm. This mechanism is used by DE non-enveloped viruses such as human rhinovirus 2 or poliovirus. Many DE tailed bacteriophages carry specialized proteins which open a pore or DE a channel in the host membrane(s) to allow penetration of the virion DE tail into host envelope and genome delivery into host cytoplasm. SY Membrane puncture-mediated penetration of viral genome into host cell. GO GO:0044694; pore-mediated entry of viral genome into host cell HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Viral penetration into host cytoplasm; Pore-mediated penetration of viral genome into host cell. CA Biological process. // ID Porin. AC KW-0626 DE Membrane protein which in a multimeric form constitutes a water-filled DE transmembrane channel (a pore). This pore allows the passage of ions DE and numerous other, non-specific molecules through the membrane. Found DE in the mitochondrial and plastid outer membrane of eukaryotes, in many DE Gram-negative bacteria, at least some Corynebacterineae, archaea and DE in sea anemones. GO GO:0015288; porin activity GO GO:0046930; pore complex HI Biological process: Transport; Ion transport; Porin. HI Domain: Transmembrane; Porin. HI Molecular function: Porin. CA Molecular function. // ID Porphyrin biosynthesis. AC KW-0627 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of porphyrins which are compounds DE that contain the porphin structure, e.g. four pyrrole rings connected DE by methine bridges in a cyclic configuration to which a variety of DE side chains are attached. Porphyrins often chelate metal ions (Fe, Mg, DE Co, Zn, Cu, Ni). Examples are, heme proteins (which contain iron DE porphyrins) like myoglobin, hemoglobin, cytochromes, or related DE macrocycles including chlorophylls (which have a central magnesium DE ion) and pheophytins (which are metal free) and vitamin B-12 (which DE has cobalt). GO GO:0006779; porphyrin-containing compound biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Porphyrin biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Postsynaptic cell membrane. AC KW-0628 DE Protein characteristic of the postsynaptic membrane. In a chemical DE synapse, the postsynaptic membrane is the membrane that receives a DE signal (binds neurotransmitter) from the presynaptic cell and responds DE via depolarisation or hyperpolarisation. The postsynaptic membrane is DE separated from the presynaptic membrane by the synaptic cleft. SY Postsynaptic membrane. GO GO:0045211; postsynaptic membrane HI Cellular component: Membrane; Postsynaptic cell membrane. HI Cellular component: Synapse; Postsynaptic cell membrane. CA Cellular component. // ID Postsynaptic neurotoxin. AC KW-0629 DE Protein which acts as a neurotoxin at the postsynaptic membrane. They DE bind to acetylcholine receptors and so inhibit their activity. GO GO:0035792; host cell postsynaptic membrane HI Molecular function: Toxin; Neurotoxin; Postsynaptic neurotoxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Potassium. AC KW-0630 DE Protein which binds at least one potassium, or protein whose function DE is potassium-dependent. Potassium is an alkali metal, chemical symbol DE K. HI Ligand: Potassium. WW https://www.webelements.com/potassium/ CA Ligand. // ID Potassium channel. AC KW-0631 DE Protein which is part of a transmembrane protein complex that forms a DE hydrophilic channel across the lipid bilayer through which potassium DE ions can diffuse down their electrochemical gradient. The channels are DE gated and only open in response to a specific stimulus, such as a DE change in membrane potential (voltage-gated). They are important for DE the regulation of the resting membrane potential and for the control DE of the shape and frequency of action potentials. GO GO:0005267; potassium channel activity GO GO:0071805; potassium ion transmembrane transport HI Molecular function: Ion channel; Potassium channel. HI Ligand: Potassium; Potassium channel. HI Biological process: Transport; Ion transport; Potassium transport; Potassium channel. CA Molecular function. // ID Potassium channel impairing toxin. AC KW-0632 DE Protein which interferes with the function of potassium channels which DE are membrane proteins forming a channel in a biological membrane DE selectively permeable to potassium ions. They are found in various DE venoms from snakes, scorpions and spiders. GO GO:0015459; potassium channel regulator activity HI Molecular function: Toxin; Ion channel impairing toxin; Potassium channel impairing toxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Potassium transport. AC KW-0633 DE Protein involved in the transport of potassium ions. GO GO:0006813; potassium ion transport HI Biological process: Transport; Ion transport; Potassium transport. HI Ligand: Potassium; Potassium transport. CA Biological process. // ID PQQ. AC KW-0634 DE Protein which non-covalently binds at least one pyrroloquinoline DE quinone (PQQ) cofactor. SY Methoxatin; Pyrroloquinoline quinone. HI Ligand: PQQ. CA Ligand. // ID PQQ biosynthesis. AC KW-0884 DE Protein involved in the biosynthesis of the cofactor pyrroloquinoline DE quinone (PQQ). SY Pyrroloquinoline quinone biosynthesis. GO GO:0018189; pyrroloquinoline quinone biosynthetic process HI Biological process: PQQ biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Pregnancy. AC KW-0635 DE Protein which plays a role in pregnancy, the condition of having a DE developing embryo or fetus in the body, after union of an ovum and DE spermatozoon. GO GO:0007565; female pregnancy HI Biological process: Pregnancy. CA Biological process. // ID Premature ovarian failure. AC KW-1066 DE Protein which, if defective, causes premature ovarian failure, a DE condition characterized by the arrest of normal ovarian function DE before the age of 40 years, due to a primary ovarian defect. It is DE characterized by absent menarche (primary amenorrhea) or premature DE depletion of ovarian follicles (secondary amenorrhea). SY Primary ovarian insufficiency. HI Disease: Premature ovarian failure. CA Disease. // ID Prenylation. AC KW-0636 DE Protein which is posttranslationally modified by the attachment of at DE least one prenyl group (e.g. farnesyl, geranylgeranyl) usually on DE cysteine residues which are at or near the C-terminal extremity. HI PTM: Lipoprotein; Prenylation. CA PTM. // ID Prenyltransferase. AC KW-0637 DE Enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of an isoprenoid (farnesyl or DE geranylgeranyl) usually on cysteine residues, which are three residues DE away from the C-terminal extremity. GO GO:0004659; prenyltransferase activity HI Molecular function: Transferase; Prenyltransferase. CA Molecular function. // ID Presynaptic neurotoxin. AC KW-0638 DE Protein which acts as a neurotoxin at the presynaptic membrane and DE usually blocks neuromuscular transmission. GO GO:0044231; host cell presynaptic membrane HI Molecular function: Toxin; Neurotoxin; Presynaptic neurotoxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Primary ciliary dyskinesia. AC KW-0990 DE Protein which, if defective, causes primary ciliary dyskinesia, a rare DE and genetically heterogeneous disorder characterized by sino-pulmonary DE disease, laterality defects and male infertility. Primary ciliary DE dyskinesia is due to dysfunction of motile cilia and flagella in DE various organ systems. SY CILD; ICS; Immotile cilia syndrome; PCD. HI Disease: Ciliopathy; Primary ciliary dyskinesia. CA Disease. // ID Primary hypomagnesemia. AC KW-0982 DE Protein which, if defective, causes primary hypomagnesemia. Primary DE hypomagnesemia defines a heterogeneous group of disorders DE characterized by low magnesium serum content due to primary renal or DE intestinal magnesium wasting. Primary hypomagnesemia disorders DE generally share symptoms of magnesium depletion, such as tetany and DE generalized convulsions. They often include associated disturbances in DE calcium excretion. HI Disease: Primary hypomagnesemia. CA Disease. // ID Primary microcephaly. AC KW-0905 DE Protein which, if defective, causes primary microcephaly. This is a DE neurodevelopmental condition characterized by a head circumference DE more than 3 standard deviations below the age, sex and ethnically DE matched mean, and absence of other syndromic features or significant DE neurological deficits. Brain weight is markedly reduced and the DE cerebral cortex is disproportionately small. Primary microcephaly is DE also known as true microcephaly or microcephaly vera. HI Disease: Primary microcephaly. CA Disease. // ID Primary mitochondrial disease. AC KW-1274 DE Protein which, if defective, causes any one of a clinically DE heterogeneous group of disorders arising from dysfunction of the DE mitochondrial respiratory chain. The phenotypic spectrum ranges from DE isolated diseases affecting single organs to severe multisystem DE disorders. Common clinical features include ptosis, external DE ophthalmoplegia, proximal myopathy and exercise intolerance, DE cardiomyopathy, sensorineural deafness, optic atrophy, pigmentary DE retinopathy, encephalopathy, seizures, stroke-like episodes, ataxia, DE and spasticity. Mitochondrial disorders can be caused by mutations of DE mitochondrial DNA or nuclear DNA that either affect oxidative DE phosphorylation proteins directly, or affect respiratory chain DE function by impacting the production of the complex machinery needed DE to run this process. SY Mitochondrial disorder; Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy; SY Mitochondrial myopathy; Oxidative phosphorylation disorder; PMD; SY Respiratory chain disorder. HI Disease: Primary mitochondrial disease. CA Disease. // ID Primosome. AC KW-0639 DE Component of the complex involved in the synthesis of RNA primer DE sequences used in DNA replication. Main components are primases and DE replicative DNA helicases that move as a unit along the replication DE fork. GO GO:0006269; DNA replication, synthesis of RNA primer GO GO:1990077; primosome complex HI Cellular component: Primosome. CA Cellular component. // ID Prion. AC KW-0640 DE Protein which is able to form a prion, a self-propagating protein DE conformation (infectious protein). Formation of prions involves DE conversion of the native proteins into an infectious, amyloid form. DE This class of proteins includes the members of the prion family which DE can form proteinaceous infectious particles responsible for DE transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) in many animals, such DE as Kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob syndrome in humans, scrapies in sheep DE and BSE in cattle. These prion diseases represent special cases of DE neurodegenerative amyloidoses, because they result from the DE transmissibility and infectivity of the amyloid. HI Cellular component: Amyloid; Prion. HI Molecular function: Prion. CA Molecular function. // ID Progressive external ophthalmoplegia. AC KW-0935 DE Protein which, if defective, causes progressive external DE ophthalmoplegia with mitochondrial DNA deletions. Progressive external DE ophthalmoplegia (PEO) is characterized by ptosis and weakness of the DE extraocular muscles. Typical symptoms are ophthalmoparesis and DE exercise intolerance. Some people also may develop cardiomyopathy, DE cataracts, ataxia, peripheral neuropathy, hypogonadism or major DE depression. The diagnosis depends on the demonstration, by Southern DE blotting, of multiple deletions of mtDNA in muscle biopsy specimens. DE Both autosomal dominant and autosomal recessive inheritance can occur. DE The autosomal recessive form, which is often associated with DE multisystemic disorders, is clinically more heterogenous than the DE autosomal dominant form and can be more severe. HI Disease: Primary mitochondrial disease; Progressive external ophthalmoplegia. CA Disease. // ID Proline biosynthesis. AC KW-0641 DE Protein involved in the biosynthesis of the cyclic amino acid proline. DE The structure of proline differs from the structure of other amino DE acids in that its side chain is bonded to the nitrogen of the amino DE group as well as to the carbon atom. This makes the amino group a DE secondary amine, and because of this, proline is also described as an DE imino acid. The presence of proline residues strongly influences the DE secondary structure of proteins. GO GO:0006561; proline biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Amino-acid biosynthesis; Proline biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Proline metabolism. AC KW-0642 DE Protein involved in a biochemical reaction with the cyclic amino acid DE proline. The structure of proline differs from the structure of other DE amino acids in that its side chain is bonded to the nitrogen of the DE amino group as well as to the carbon atom. This makes the amino group DE a secondary amine, and because of this, proline is also described as DE an imino acid. The presence of proline residues strongly influences DE the secondary structure of proteins. GO GO:0006560; proline metabolic process HI Biological process: Proline metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Prostaglandin biosynthesis. AC KW-0643 DE Protein involved in the biosynthesis of prostaglandins. Prostaglandins DE are fatty acids composed of 20 carbons with a substituted cyclopentane DE ring. There are four major classes of prostaglandin, which differ in DE the position of the double bonds and/or the oxygen substituents on the DE ring: PGA, PGB, PGE, and PGF. They are found in many mammalian DE tissues. GO GO:0001516; prostaglandin biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Fatty acid metabolism; Fatty acid biosynthesis; Prostaglandin biosynthesis. HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Lipid biosynthesis; Fatty acid biosynthesis; Prostaglandin biosynthesis. HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Fatty acid metabolism; Prostaglandin metabolism; Prostaglandin biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Prostaglandin metabolism. AC KW-0644 DE Protein involved in a biochemical reaction with prostaglandins. DE Prostaglandins are fatty acids composed of 20 carbons with a DE substituted cyclopentane ring. There are four major classes of DE prostaglandin, which differ in the position of the double bonds and/or DE the oxygen substituents on the ring: PGA, PGB, PGE, and PGF. They are DE found in many mammalian tissues. GO GO:0006693; prostaglandin metabolic process HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Fatty acid metabolism; Prostaglandin metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Protease. AC KW-0645 DE Enzyme which hydrolyzes peptide bonds. SY Peptidase; Peptide hydrolase; Proteinase. GO GO:0006508; proteolysis GO GO:0008233; peptidase activity HI Molecular function: Hydrolase; Protease. CA Molecular function. // ID Protease inhibitor. AC KW-0646 DE Protein which inhibits or antagonizes the biosynthesis of proteases or DE their activity. GO GO:0010466; negative regulation of peptidase activity GO GO:0030414; peptidase inhibitor activity HI Molecular function: Protease inhibitor. CA Molecular function. // ID Proteasome. AC KW-0647 DE Protein which is part of the proteasome, a large protein complex in DE the cytosol that is responsible for degrading proteins which have been DE marked for destruction by ubiquitination or by some other means. SY Macropain; Prosome. GO GO:0000502; proteasome complex HI Cellular component: Proteasome. CA Cellular component. // ID Protein biosynthesis. AC KW-0648 DE Protein involved in the biosynthesis of proteins from mRNA molecules. DE This process, called translation, is carried out by ribosomes, where DE activated amino acids are added to the nascent polypeptide chain. GO GO:0006412; translation HI Biological process: Protein biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Protein kinase inhibitor. AC KW-0649 DE Protein which inhibits the activity of a protein kinase. GO GO:0004860; protein kinase inhibitor activity HI Molecular function: Protein kinase inhibitor. CA Molecular function. // ID Protein phosphatase. AC KW-0904 DE Enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of phosphate monoesters bonds of DE phosphoserines, phosphothreonines, phosphotyrosines or phosphoaspartic DE acids. While many protein phosphatases inhibit the activities of DE phosphorylation cascades, some activate them. SY Phosphoprotein phosphatase. GO GO:0004721; phosphoprotein phosphatase activity HI Molecular function: Hydrolase; Protein phosphatase. WW http://www.phosphorylation.biochem.vt.edu/ CA Molecular function. // ID Protein phosphatase inhibitor. AC KW-0650 DE Protein which inhibits the activity of a protein phosphatase. GO GO:0004864; protein phosphatase inhibitor activity HI Molecular function: Protein phosphatase inhibitor. CA Molecular function. // ID Protein splicing. AC KW-0651 DE Protein which undergoes protein self-splicing, a posttranslational DE modification involving the excision of an intervening protein sequence DE (intein) from a protein precursor and the concomitant ligation of the DE flanking protein fragments (exteins) to form a mature extein protein DE and the free intein. HI PTM: Autocatalytic cleavage; Protein splicing. CA PTM. // ID Protein synthesis inhibitor. AC KW-0652 DE Protein which blocks the synthesis of proteins (translation) through DE various mechanisms, including hydrolysis of cellular tRNA, and DE inactivation of the 60S subunits of eukaryotic ribosome. GO GO:0017148; negative regulation of translation HI Molecular function: Protein synthesis inhibitor. CA Molecular function. // ID Protein transport. AC KW-0653 DE Protein involved in the intracellular transport of proteins from one DE location to another. All proteins (except the ones synthesized in DE mitochondria and plastids) are synthesized on ribosomes in the DE cytosol. Most proteins remain in the cytosol. Proteins with a signal DE sequence either become plasma membrane components or are exported from DE the cell of origin. GO GO:0015031; protein transport HI Biological process: Transport; Protein transport. CA Biological process. // ID Proteoglycan. AC KW-0654 DE Protein containing one or more covalently linked and usually sulfated DE glycosaminoglycans, (e.g., chondroitin sulfate, dermatan sulfate, DE heparan sulfate, heparin, keratan sulfate). Glycosaminoglycans are DE polysaccharides made of repeating disaccharides (usually 40-100 DE times), which consist of uronic acid (or galactose) and hexosamines. DE Aggrecan, for example, is the major component in articular cartilage. HI PTM: Glycoprotein; Proteoglycan. CA PTM. // ID Proteomics identification. AC KW-1267 DE Protein whose amino acid sequence has been partially or completely DE confirmed using publicly available mass spectrometry based data. The DE mapping from the mass spectrometry data to UniProtKB sequences may be DE subject to quality metrics from both UniProt and the data providers. HI Technical term: Proteomics identification. CA Technical term. // ID Prothrombin activator. AC KW-0655 DE Protein which activates prothrombin, the inactive precursor of DE thrombin. For example, staphylocoagulase, an extracellular protein DE produced by Staphylococcus aureus, forms a complex with prothrombin DE which can clot fibrinogen without any proteolytic cleavage of DE prothrombin. GO GO:0010952; positive regulation of peptidase activity GO GO:0016504; peptidase activator activity HI Molecular function: Prothrombin activator. CA Molecular function. // ID Proto-oncogene. AC KW-0656 DE Protein whose normal cellular gene can be converted into a cancer- DE promoting oncogene by activating mutations, chromosomal translocation DE or DNA amplification. Once activated a proto-oncogene can promote cell DE transformation in culture or tumorigenesis in animals. Examples DE include the regulatory GTPase HRAS, which is commonly activated by DE dominant gain of function point mutations, and the transcription DE factor MYC, which can be activated by both chromosomal amplification DE and chromosomal translocation. HI Disease: Proto-oncogene. CA Disease. // ID Proton-gated sodium channel impairing toxin. AC KW-1275 DE Protein which interferes with the function of proton-gated sodium DE channels (ASICs) which are membrane proteins forming a channel in a DE biological membrane selectively permeable to sodium ions, and open in DE response to an increase of extracellular protons. These toxins are DE found in various venoms from snakes, spiders, sea anemones, and cone DE snails. HI Molecular function: Toxin; Ion channel impairing toxin; Proton-gated sodium channel impairing toxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Pseudohermaphroditism. AC KW-0657 DE Protein which, if defective, causes pseudohermaphroditism, a condition DE in humans in which the individual has gonads of one sex but shows DE ambiguous morphologic criteria of sex. HI Disease: Pseudohermaphroditism. CA Disease. // IC PTM. AC KW-9991 DE Keywords assigned to proteins because their sequences can differ from DE the mere translation of their corresponding genes, due to some post- DE translational modification. // ID Purine biosynthesis. AC KW-0658 DE Protein involved in the biosynthesis of purine, a nitrogenous DE heterocyclic base, e.g. adenine, guanine, hypoxanthine and xanthine. DE De novo synthesis involves a complex, energy-expensive pathway that DE yields inosine 5'-monophosphate (IMP), a purine ribonucleotide. AMP DE and GMP are then formed from IMP in separate pathways. Adenine and DE guanine are found in both DNA and RNA. Hypoxanthine and xanthine are DE important intermediates in the synthesis and degradation of the purine DE nucleotides. GO GO:0006164; purine nucleotide biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Purine biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Purine metabolism. AC KW-0659 DE Protein involved in a biochemical reaction with purines. Purines are DE nitrogenous heterocyclic bases, e.g. adenine, guanine, hypoxanthine DE and xanthine. The degradation of purines leads to uric acid, which is DE excreted in primates, birds and some other animals. In many other DE vertebrates uric acid is degraded further to the excretory product DE allantoin. GO GO:0006144; purine nucleobase metabolic process HI Biological process: Purine metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Purine salvage. AC KW-0660 DE Protein involved in the biosynthesis of purine nucleotides from free DE purines salvaged from their catabolism. This process is less expensive DE energetically and exerts feedback control on the de novo synthesis. GO GO:0006166; purine ribonucleoside salvage HI Biological process: Purine salvage. CA Biological process. // ID Putrescine biosynthesis. AC KW-0661 DE Protein involved in the biosynthesis of putrescine, a foul-smelling DE polyamine. This metabolic precursor of the polyamines spermine and DE spermidine is often produced during breakdown of some of the amino DE acids by bacteria. SY 1,4-butanediamine biosynthesis; 1,4-diaminobutane biosynthesis. GO GO:0009446; putrescine biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Putrescine biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Pyridine nucleotide biosynthesis. AC KW-0662 DE Protein involved in the biosynthesis of the pyridine nucleotides NAD DE and NADP. NAD may be synthesized de novo from aspartate and DE dihydroxyacetone phosphate or from tryptophan. NAD may also be DE synthesized from nicotinamide or nicotinic acid. NADP is formed via DE the phosphorylation of NAD by NAD+ kinase. GO GO:0019363; pyridine nucleotide biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Pyridine nucleotide biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Pyridoxal phosphate. AC KW-0663 DE Protein which uses at least one pyridoxal phosphate as cofactor or DE protein required for its synthesis. This coenzyme, derived from DE vitamin B6, is important in amino acid metabolism, e.g., in reactions DE involving transamination, decarboxylation, racemization, elimination DE or replacement. HI Ligand: Pyridoxal phosphate. CA Ligand. // ID Pyridoxine biosynthesis. AC KW-0664 DE Protein involved in the biosynthesis of pyridoxine, a precursor to the DE coenzyme pyridoxal phosphate. SY Pyridoxol biosynthesis; Vitamin B6 biosynthesis. GO GO:0008615; pyridoxine biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Pyridoxine biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Pyrimidine biosynthesis. AC KW-0665 DE Protein involved in the biosynthesis of pyrimidine, a nitrogenous DE heterocyclic base, e.g. uracil, thymine, cytosine and orotic acid. DE Pyrimidines are synthesized from carbamoyl phosphate and aspartate. DE Ribose-5-phosphate is then attached to yield pyrimidine DE ribonucleotides. Cytosine is found in both DNA and RNA. Uracil is DE found only in RNA. Thymine is normally found in DNA. Sometimes tRNA DE contains some thymine as well as uracil. GO GO:0006221; pyrimidine nucleotide biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Pyrimidine biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Pyrogen. AC KW-0666 DE Protein producing fever. The major endogenous pyrogen in mammals is DE probably interleukin-1, which is produced by activated macrophages and DE acts on the hypothalamic thermoregulatory centre. GO GO:0001660; fever generation HI Biological process: Inflammatory response; Pyrogen. HI Molecular function: Pyrogen. CA Molecular function. // ID Pyropoikilocytosis. AC KW-0668 DE Protein which, if defective, causes hereditary pyropoikilocytosis DE (HPP), a recessively inherited hemolytic anemia characterized by DE microspherocytosis, poikilocytosis (deformation of the erythrocytes), DE and an unusual thermal sensitivity of red cells. Frequently associated DE with abnormalities in alpha-spectrin, one of the principal structural DE proteins of the erythrocyte membrane skeleton. SY HPP. HI Disease: Hereditary hemolytic anemia; Pyropoikilocytosis. CA Disease. // ID Pyrrolidone carboxylic acid. AC KW-0873 DE Protein which is posttranslationally modified by the cyclization of a DE N-terminal glutamine. SY Pyro-Glu; Pyroglutamic acid. HI PTM: Pyrrolidone carboxylic acid. CA PTM. // ID Pyrrolysine. AC KW-0669 DE Protein which contains a pyrrolysine, a naturally occurring amino acid DE so far only found in some archaeal proteins. Pyrrolysine is a lysine DE in an amide linkage to (4R,5R)-4-substituted-pyrroline-5-carboxylate. HI Coding sequence diversity: Pyrrolysine. CA Coding sequence diversity. // ID Pyruvate. AC KW-0670 DE Protein which uses at least one pyruvate as cofactor (pyruvoyl) or DE substrate, or protein required for pyruvate synthesis or degradation. DE Pyruvate is an intermediate compound in the metabolism of DE carbohydrates, proteins and fats. HI Ligand: Pyruvate. CA Ligand. // ID Queuosine biosynthesis. AC KW-0671 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of queuosine (nucleoside Q), a DE modified guanosine derivative found only in tRNAs for aspartic acid, DE asparagine, histidine and tyrosine. It can pair with either C or U. SY Nucleoside Q biosynthesis. GO GO:0008616; queuosine biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Queuosine biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Quinate metabolism. AC KW-0672 DE Protein involved in the biochemical reactions of quinate. Quinate is DE the ionized form of quinic acid which is found in plants, e.g. in DE cinchona bark. GO GO:0019630; quinate metabolic process HI Biological process: Quinate metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Quinone. AC KW-0874 DE Protein which interacts with quinones. Quinones are aromatic DE dicarbonyl compounds, where the two carbonyl groups are usually in the DE para position. Most naturally occuring quinones contain a long DE isoprenoid side chain, and are divided in two major structural groups, DE the naphtoquinones and benzoquinones; the number of isoprene units DE depends on the organism. These highly hydrophobic molecules are mainly DE involved in electron transport, as electron carriers in redox DE reactions. For example, ubiquinone (coenzyme Q) and menaquinone DE (vitamin K2) are essential components of the respiratory electron DE transport chain. Plastoquinone, found in chloroplasts and in DE cyanobacteria, functions as one of the carrier molecules of the DE electron transport chain in photosynthesis. Phylloquinone (vitamin K1) DE is the major form of vitamin K found in plants. Chlorobiumquinone, DE demethylmenaquinone, alpha-tocopherolquinone, rhodoquinone, DE epoxyubiquinone and caldariellaquinone are other quinones found in DE several species. GO GO:0048038; quinone binding HI PTM: Quinone. CA PTM. // ID Quorum sensing. AC KW-0673 DE Protein involved in quorum sensing (QS). QS is a phenomenon whereby DE the accumulation of signaling molecules enables a single cell to sense DE the number of bacteria (cell density). The bacterial reponse to QS DE includes adaptation to availability of nutrients, defence against DE other microorganisms which may compete for the same nutrients and the DE avoidance of toxic compounds potentially dangerous for the bacteria. GO GO:0009372; quorum sensing HI Biological process: Quorum sensing. CA Biological process. // ID Reaction center. AC KW-0674 DE Protein which is a component of the reaction center, a system DE consisting of proteins and cofactors which facilitate light energy and DE electron transfer in plants. The system also acts as a light-driven DE electron pump across the photosynthetic membrane of photosynthetic DE bacteria. HI Biological process: Photosynthesis; Reaction center. HI Cellular component: Reaction center. CA Cellular component. // ID Receptor. AC KW-0675 DE Protein which binds to, or responds to, a ligand with high DE specificity. HI Molecular function: Receptor. CA Molecular function. // ID Redox-active center. AC KW-0676 DE Protein which possesses at least one active center which mediates its DE participation in redox reactions, usually via reversible oxidation of DE a cysteine residue leading to a cysteine-sulfenic acid that can either DE be stabilized, or react with an unmodified cysteine residue and form a DE stable but reversible disulfide bond. HI Domain: Redox-active center. CA Domain. // ID Reference proteome. AC KW-1185 DE Protein which is part of a reference proteome. Reference proteomes are DE a subset of proteomes that have been selected either manually or DE algorithmically according to a number of criteria to provide a broad DE coverage of the tree of life and a representative cross-section of the DE taxonomic diversity found within UniProtKB, as well as the proteomes DE of well-studied model organisms and other species of interest for DE biomedical research. HI Technical term: Reference proteome. CA Technical term. // ID Repeat. AC KW-0677 DE Protein which contains a stretch of amino acids present in multiple DE copies. HI Domain: Repeat. CA Domain. // ID Repressor. AC KW-0678 DE Protein which interferes with transcription, usually by binding to DE specific sites on DNA. Also used for proteins which repress DE translation. HI Molecular function: Repressor. CA Molecular function. // ID Respiratory chain. AC KW-0679 DE Protein involved in respiratory chain. In aerobic respiration DE electrons are transferred from metabolites to molecular oxygen through DE a series of redox reactions mediated by an electron transport chain. DE The resulting free energy is used for the formation of ATP and NAD. In DE anaerobic respiration analogous reactions take place with an inorganic DE compound other than oxygen as ultimate electron acceptor. SY Electron transport chain; Respiration chain. GO GO:0070469; respirasome HI Biological process: Transport; Electron transport; Respiratory chain. CA Biological process. // ID Restriction system. AC KW-0680 DE Protein involved in the restriction system present in many bacteria DE and archaea. This defense mechanism is composed principally of a DE restriction endonuclease and a methylase. The restriction endonuclease DE cuts the invading DNA of viruses (or phages) at a specific recognition DE site. The bacterial DNA is protected by the methylase which adds a DE methyl group to a specific nucleotide, immediately following DE replication, in the same target site as the restriction enzyme. SY Restriction-modification system. GO GO:0009307; DNA restriction-modification system HI Biological process: Restriction system. CA Biological process. // ID Restriction-modification system evasion by virus. AC KW-1258 DE Viral anti-restriction protein that counteracts the host restriction- DE modification (R-M) system. R-M system is a prokaryotic host defense DE system that recognizes incoming unmodified viral DNA and rapidly DE degrades it. Methylation and phosphorothioation (S-modification) are DE two known modifications used by the host to to label its genomic DNA DE as 'self'. Many prokaryotic viruses have evolved antirestriction DE strategies such as expressing their own methylase, stimulating the DE host methylase so that it confers protection to the virus genome or DE shutting down host restriction endonuclease. GO GO:0099018; evasion by virus of host restriction-modification system HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus; Restriction-modification system evasion by virus. CA Biological process. // ID Retinal protein. AC KW-0681 DE Protein found in the retina or, in the case of bacteriorhodopsin, in DE the purple membrane of halobacteria, and which acts as a photoreceptor DE and which binds a retinal chromophore. GO GO:0007602; phototransduction HI Ligand: Chromophore; Retinal protein. HI Molecular function: Receptor; Photoreceptor protein; Retinal protein. CA Molecular function. // ID Retinitis pigmentosa. AC KW-0682 DE Protein which, if defective, causes retinitis pigmentosa, a hereditary DE progressive degeneration of the neuroepithelium of the retina,. HI Disease: Retinitis pigmentosa. CA Disease. // ID Retinol-binding. AC KW-0683 DE Protein which binds retinol, one of the active form of Vitamin A, a DE fat-soluble vitamin derived from carotenes. It is a precursor of DE retinal, the light-absorbing group of visual pigments. Vitamin A is DE also required for growth. SY Vitamin A-binding. GO GO:0019841; retinol binding HI Ligand: Retinol-binding. CA Ligand. // ID Rhamnose metabolism. AC KW-0684 DE Protein involved in the biochemical reactions of rhamnose. Rhamnose is DE a methylpentose sugar structurally derived from mannose. The L-isomer DE occurs naturally as a component of many plant glycosides and in DE lipopolysaccharides of some bacteria with 2 membranes (Gram-negative DE bacteria). SY 6-deoxy-L-mannose metabolism. GO GO:0019299; rhamnose metabolic process HI Biological process: Rhamnose metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata. AC KW-0685 DE Protein which, if defective, causes rhizomelic chondrodysplasia DE punctata (RCDP). This lethal autosomal recessive disease is DE characterized by proximal limb shortening, severely disturbed DE endochondrial bone formation, and intellectual disability. RCDP type 1 DE (RCDP1) is the classical and most common form. It is a peroxisome DE biogenesis disorder caused by mutations in the PEX7 gene, which DE encodes the PTS2-receptor peroxin-7. RCDP type 2 (RCDP2) and RCDP type DE 3 (RCDP3) result from single peroxisomal enzyme deficiencies: DE dihydroxyacetone phosphate synthase is deficient in RCDP2 and DE dihydroxyacetone phosphate acyltransferase in RCDP3. Both enzymes are DE involved in the biosynthesis of plasmalogens. SY RCDP. HI Disease: Rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata. CA Disease. // ID Riboflavin biosynthesis. AC KW-0686 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of riboflavin (Vitamin B2), which DE consists of ribose attached to a flavin moiety. It is synthesized by DE all green plants and most microorganisms and occurs free in milk, the DE retina, whey and urine. It is found in most cells as a component of DE the coenzymes flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD) and flavin DE mononucleotide (FMN). SY Vitamin B2 biosynthesis. GO GO:0009231; riboflavin biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Riboflavin biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Ribonucleoprotein. AC KW-0687 DE Proteins conjugated with ribonucleic acid (RNA). Ribonucleoprotein are DE involved in a wide range of cellular processes. Besides ribosomes, in DE eukaryotic cells both initial RNA transcripts in the nucleus (hnRNA) DE and cytoplasmic mRNAs exist as complexes with specific sets of DE proteins. Processing (splicing) of the former is carried out by small DE nuclear RNPs (snRNPs). Other examples are the signal recognition DE particle responsible for targetting proteins to endoplasmic reticulum DE and a complex involved in termination of transcription. GO GO:1990904; ribonucleoprotein complex HI Molecular function: Ribonucleoprotein. CA Molecular function. // ID Ribosomal frameshifting. AC KW-0688 DE Protein produced by programmed ribosomal frameshifting, a DE translational recoding mechanism which causes the ribosome to alter DE its reading of the genetic code to produce either an alternative DE product not directly encoded by the mRNA or two or more different DE isoforms. HI Coding sequence diversity: Ribosomal frameshifting. CA Coding sequence diversity. // ID Ribosomal protein. AC KW-0689 DE Protein of the ribosome, large ribonucleoprotein particles where the DE translation of messenger RNA (mRNA) into protein occurs. They are both DE free in the cytoplasm and attached to membranes of eukaryotic and DE prokaryotic cells. Ribosomes are also present in all plastids and DE mitochondria, where they translate organelle-encoded mRNA. GO GO:0005840; ribosome HI Molecular function: Ribonucleoprotein; Ribosomal protein. CA Molecular function. // ID Ribosomal skipping. AC KW-1197 DE Protein produced by ribosomal 'skipping', in which a specific sequence DE in the nascent peptide chain prevents the ribosome from creating the DE peptide bond with the next proline. Nevertheless, translation DE continues and gives rise to a second chain. This mechanism results in DE apparent co-translational cleavage of the polyprotein. This process is DE induced by a '2A-like', or CHYSEL (cis-acting hydrolase element) DE sequence. HI Coding sequence diversity: Ribosomal skipping. CA Coding sequence diversity. // ID Ribosome biogenesis. AC KW-0690 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of ribosomes. GO GO:0042254; ribosome biogenesis HI Biological process: Ribosome biogenesis. CA Biological process. // ID RNA editing. AC KW-0691 DE Protein which is derived from an RNA which has been modified by RNA DE editing, a process that changes the nucleotide sequence of an RNA from DE that of the DNA template encoding it. RNA editing can be due to DE nucleotide conversion, insertion and/or deletion. HI Coding sequence diversity: RNA editing. CA Coding sequence diversity. // ID RNA repair. AC KW-0692 DE Protein involved in the repair of RNA, the various biochemical DE processes by which damaged RNA can be restored. GO GO:0042245; RNA repair HI Biological process: RNA repair. CA Biological process. // ID RNA suppression of termination. AC KW-1159 DE Protein which is derived from an mRNA by suppression of termination, a DE process in which a tRNA misreads a termination codon thereby producing DE a longer protein. RNA secondary structure after the stop codon plays a DE role in this process. The efficiency of suppression of termination is DE about 10% for most viruses. Termination suppression is involved in DE polyprotein synthesis of gamma and epsilon retroviruses, as well as DE all togaviridae. HI Coding sequence diversity: RNA suppression of termination. CA Coding sequence diversity. // ID RNA termination-reinitiation. AC KW-1158 DE Protein which is derived from an mRNA by termination-reinitiation, a DE process in which ribosomes translate the upstream ORF but following DE termination, a proportion of 40S subunits remain tethered to the mRNA DE and reinitiates at the start codon of the downstream ORF to another DE open reading frame. Termination-reinitiation operates in animals and DE yeast translational systems. HI Coding sequence diversity: RNA termination-reinitiation. CA Coding sequence diversity. // ID RNA translational shunting. AC KW-1156 DE Protein which is derived from an mRNA by translational shunting, a DE process in which ribosomes are loaded onto mRNA at the 5'-cap DE structure, start scanning for a short distance before bypassing the DE large internal leader region and initiating at a downstream start DE site. Shunting operates in plants, animals, and yeast translational DE systems, both in vivo and in vitro. HI Coding sequence diversity: RNA translational shunting. CA Coding sequence diversity. // ID RNA-binding. AC KW-0694 DE Protein which binds to RNA. GO GO:0003723; RNA binding HI Molecular function: RNA-binding. CA Molecular function. // ID RNA-directed DNA polymerase. AC KW-0695 DE Enzyme (EC 2.7.7.49) which synthesizes (-)DNA on a (+)RNA template. DE They are encoded by the pol gene of retroviruses and by certain DE retrovirus-like elements. SY Reverse transcriptase. GO GO:0003964; RNA-directed DNA polymerase activity HI Molecular function: Transferase; Nucleotidyltransferase; RNA-directed DNA polymerase. CA Molecular function. // ID RNA-directed RNA polymerase. AC KW-0696 DE Enzyme (EC 2.7.7.48) which synthesizes (+)RNA on a (-)RNA template. DE They are encoded by many viruses. GO GO:0003968; RNA-dependent RNA polymerase activity HI Molecular function: Transferase; Nucleotidyltransferase; RNA-directed RNA polymerase. CA Molecular function. // ID RNA-mediated gene silencing. AC KW-0943 DE Protein involved in RNA-mediated gene silencing. This term describes a DE number of related processes which use 21- to 25-nucleotide RNAs to DE repress the expression of specific target genes. These processes DE include the post-transcriptional regulation of mRNA by either RNA DE interference (RNAi) or endogenously encoded microRNAs (miRNAs) and the DE transcriptional regulation of mRNA by RNAi-mediated chromatin DE silencing. RNAi is generally triggered by the presence of dsRNA DE produced by bidirectional transcription or by the transcription of an DE inverted repeat or hairpin sequence. dsRNA is processed into small DE interfering RNAs (siRNAs) of around 21 nucleotide which are then DE incorporated into the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC), which DE cleaves mRNAs with sequences fully complementary to the siRNA. miRNAs DE differ from siRNAs principally in their biogenesis. miRNA genes encode DE precursors with complex hairpin structures which are processed by DE endonucleolytic cleavage to form mature miRNAs. Like siRNAs, miRNAs DE function in RISC-like complexes. Animal miRNAs generally inhibit DE translation of target mRNAs following imperfect base pairing to the DE 3'-untranslated region (3'-UTR), while most plant miRNAs show nearly DE precise complementarity to coding regions of target mRNAs and trigger DE mRNA degradation similar to siRNAs. Finally, in RNAi-mediated DE chromatin silencing, siRNAs derived from repeat element transcripts DE are incorporated into the nuclear RNAi-induced initiator of DE transcriptional silencing complex (RITS), where they guide chromatin DE modifications such as histone methylation which lead to DE transcriptional silencing. SY Cosuppression; Post-transcriptional gene silencing; PTGS; Quelling; SY RNAi; RNA interference; TGS; Transcriptional gene silencing. GO GO:0031047; regulatory ncRNA-mediated gene silencing HI Biological process: RNA-mediated gene silencing. CA Biological process. // ID Rotamase. AC KW-0697 DE Enzyme (EC 5.2.1.8) which accelerates the folding of proteins by DE catalyzing the cis-trans isomerization of proline imidic peptide bonds DE in oligopeptides. GO GO:0003755; peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase activity HI Molecular function: Isomerase; Rotamase. CA Molecular function. // ID rRNA processing. AC KW-0698 DE Protein involved in the processing of the primary rRNA transcript to DE yield a functional rRNA. This includes the cleavage and other DE modifications. SY Ribosomal RNA processing. GO GO:0006364; rRNA processing HI Biological process: rRNA processing. CA Biological process. // ID rRNA-binding. AC KW-0699 DE Protein which binds to ribosomal RNA. GO GO:0019843; rRNA binding HI Molecular function: RNA-binding; rRNA-binding. CA Molecular function. // ID Ryanodine-sensitive calcium-release channel impairing toxin. AC KW-1219 DE Protein which interferes with the function of ryanodine receptors DE (Ryr) which are a class of intracellular calcium channels in various DE forms of excitable animal tissue like muscles and neurons. These DE toxins are mostly found in scorpion and snake venom. SY Ryanodine receptor inhibitor; Ryr inhibitor. HI Molecular function: Toxin; Ion channel impairing toxin; Calcium channel impairing toxin; Ryanodine-sensitive calcium-release channel impairing toxin. CA Molecular function. // ID S-adenosyl-L-methionine. AC KW-0949 DE Protein which binds at least one S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAM), or DE protein whose function is SAM-dependent. S-adenosyl-L-methionine, a DE conjugate of the nucleotide adenosine and the amino acid methionine, DE is a substrate/cofactor in numerous enzyme-catalyzed reactions. DE Enzymatic reactions that involve interactions of proteins with S- DE adenosyl-L-methionine include transfer of methyl, thiomethyl, DE aminoalkyl and adenosyl groups. It not only provides methyl groups to DE be transferred in numerous biological reactions, but also acts as a DE precursor in the biosynthesis of polyamines and metal ion chelating DE compounds. It is also a source of catalytic 5'-deoxyadenosyl radicals DE produced as reaction intermediates by a superfamily of radical DE enzymes. It is also involved in decarboxylation reactions. SY AdoMet; AdoMet radical; radical S- adenosylmethionine; SY S-adenosylmethionine; S-adenosyl methionine; S-adenosyl-methionine; SY SAM; SAM radical. HI Ligand: S-adenosyl-L-methionine. CA Ligand. // ID S-layer. AC KW-0701 DE Protein of the paracrystalline mono-layered assembly which coats the DE surface of bacteria and archaea. GO GO:0030115; S-layer HI Cellular component: Secreted; Cell wall; S-layer. CA Cellular component. // ID S-nitrosylation. AC KW-0702 DE Protein which is posttranslationally modified by the attachment of a DE nitric oxide group on the sulfur atom of one or more cysteine DE residues. HI PTM: S-nitrosylation. CA PTM. // ID Sarcoplasmic reticulum. AC KW-0703 DE Protein found in a special form of agranular reticulum located in the DE sarcoplasm of striated muscle. The agranular reticulum comprises and DE comprising a system of smooth-surfaced tubules which form a plexus DE around each myofibril. GO GO:0016529; sarcoplasmic reticulum HI Cellular component: Sarcoplasmic reticulum. CA Cellular component. // ID Schiff base. AC KW-0704 DE Enzyme which forms a covalent enzyme-substrate complex, a Schiff's DE base or ketimine between the amino group of a lysine residue of the DE enzyme and the carbonyl group of the substrate. HI Ligand: Schiff base. CA Ligand. // ID Schizophrenia. AC KW-1211 DE Protein which, if defective, is associated with schizophrenia, a DE multifactorial psychotic disorder characterized by disturbances in the DE form and content of thought (e.g. delusions, hallucinations), in mood DE (e.g. inappropriate affect), in sense of self and relationship to the DE external world (e.g. loss of ego boundaries, withdrawal), and in DE behavior (e.g bizarre or apparently purposeless behavior). SY SCZD. HI Disease: Schizophrenia. CA Disease. // ID SCID. AC KW-0705 DE Protein which, if defective, causes severe combined (or congenital) DE immunodeficiency disease. An heterogeneous group of inherited DE disorders characterized by gross functional impairment of the immune DE system. SY Severe combined immunodeficiency disease; SY Severe congenital immunodeficiency disease. HI Disease: SCID. CA Disease. // ID Secreted. AC KW-0964 DE Protein secreted into the cell surroundings. GO GO:0005576; extracellular region HI Cellular component: Secreted. CA Cellular component. // ID Seed storage protein. AC KW-0708 DE Protein required for the development or growth of seeds. GO GO:0045735; nutrient reservoir activity HI Molecular function: Storage protein; Seed storage protein. CA Molecular function. // ID Segmentation polarity protein. AC KW-0709 DE Protein involved in the division of the embryo into segments and which DE is responsible for determining the internal polarity of the segments. DE Segment polarity gene mutations are lethal and change the pattern and, DE often the polarity, of every segment. SY Segment polarity protein. GO GO:0007367; segment polarity determination HI Molecular function: Developmental protein; Segmentation polarity protein. CA Molecular function. // ID Selenium. AC KW-0711 DE Protein which binds at least one selenium, or protein whose function DE is selenium-dependent. Selenium is a nonmetallic trace element, DE chemical symbol Se. HI Ligand: Selenium. WW https://www.webelements.com/selenium/ CA Ligand. // ID Selenocysteine. AC KW-0712 DE Protein which contains a selenocysteine, a naturally occurring amino DE acid in both eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms. SY 3-selenyl-L-alanine. HI Coding sequence diversity: Selenocysteine. CA Coding sequence diversity. // ID Self-incompatibility. AC KW-0713 DE Protein involved in the self-incompatibility system, which is to say DE the inability of pollen grains to fertilize flowers of the same plant DE or a close relative. This mechanism ensures out-breeding in certain DE plant species. GO GO:0060320; rejection of self pollen HI Biological process: Self-incompatibility. CA Biological process. // ID Senior-Loken syndrome. AC KW-0980 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Senior-Loken syndrome, a DE genetically and clinically heterogeneous disease characterized by DE nephronophthisis and retinal abnormalities manifesting as congenital DE retinal blindness or retinitis pigmentosa. Senior-Loken syndrome can DE be associated with manifestations such as cerebellar ataxia and DE skeletal abnormalities including cone epiphyses. SY Juvenile nephronophthisis with Leber amaurosis; Loken-Senior syndrome; SY Renal dysplasia and retinal aplasia; Renal-retinal syndrome; SY Senior-Loeken syndrome. HI Disease: Ciliopathy; Senior-Loken syndrome. CA Disease. // ID Sensory transduction. AC KW-0716 DE Protein involved in sensory transduction, the process by which a cell DE converts an extracellular signal, such as light, taste, sound, touch DE or smell, into electric signals. GO GO:0050896; response to stimulus HI Biological process: Sensory transduction. CA Biological process. // ID Septation. AC KW-0717 DE Protein involved in septation, the formation of a separating wall DE (septum) between daughter cells during cell division. GO GO:0000917; division septum assembly HI Biological process: Cell cycle; Cell division; Septation. CA Biological process. // ID Serine biosynthesis. AC KW-0718 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of the amino acid serine, a DE constituent of proteins and precursor of several metabolites, DE including cysteine, glycine and choline. Serine is mostly formed from DE 3-phosphoglycerate in a 3-step reaction pathway. GO GO:0006564; L-serine biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Amino-acid biosynthesis; Serine biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Serine esterase. AC KW-0719 DE Enzyme which catalyzes the hydrolysis of esters and is characterized DE by a catalytically active serine residue in its active site. GO GO:0052689; carboxylic ester hydrolase activity HI Molecular function: Hydrolase; Serine esterase. CA Molecular function. // ID Serine protease. AC KW-0720 DE Proteolytic enzyme with a serine residue (Ser) in its active site. The DE reactivity of the serine residue is ensured by the vicinity of a DE histidine and an aspartate residue (catalytic triad), all three DE residues are required for the charge relay system to take place. SY Serine endopeptidase; Serine peptidase; Serine proteinase. GO GO:0008236; serine-type peptidase activity HI Molecular function: Hydrolase; Protease; Serine protease. CA Molecular function. // ID Serine protease homolog. AC KW-0721 DE Protein which is related to serine proteases but seems to have no DE proteolytic activity. HI Molecular function: Serine protease homolog. CA Molecular function. // ID Serine protease inhibitor. AC KW-0722 DE Protein which inhibits serine proteases, a group of proteolytic DE enzymes which are characterized by a catalytically active serine DE residue in their active site. SY Serine endopeptidase inhibitor; Serine peptidase inhibitor; SY Serine proteinase inhibitor. GO GO:0004867; serine-type endopeptidase inhibitor activity HI Molecular function: Protease inhibitor; Serine protease inhibitor. CA Molecular function. // ID Serine/threonine-protein kinase. AC KW-0723 DE Protein which catalyzes the phosphorylation of serine or threonine DE residues on target proteins by using ATP as phosphate donor. Such DE phosphorylation may cause changes in the function of the target DE protein. Protein kinases share a conserved catalytic core common to DE both serine/ threonine and tyrosine protein kinases. GO GO:0004674; protein serine/threonine kinase activity HI Molecular function: Transferase; Kinase; Serine/threonine-protein kinase. CA Molecular function. // ID Serotonin biosynthesis. AC KW-0724 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of the biochemical messenger and DE regulator serotonin which is formed by the hydroxylation and DE subsequent decarboxylation of L-tryptophan. In humans, serotonin DE mediates several important physiological functions, including DE neurotransmission, gastrointestinal motility, hemostasis and DE cardiovascular integrity. SY 5-HT; 5-hydroxytryptamine. GO GO:0042427; serotonin biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Serotonin biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Sexual differentiation. AC KW-0726 DE Protein involved in both the determination of cells to become sexual DE tissue in embryonic development and in the process by which male and DE female tissue becomes structurally and functionally specialized during DE embryonic development. GO GO:0007548; sex differentiation HI Biological process: Differentiation; Sexual differentiation. CA Biological process. // ID SH2 domain. AC KW-0727 DE Protein with at least one Src homology 2 (SH2) domain. The SH2 domain, DE which was first identified in the oncoproteins Src and Fps, is about DE 100 amino-acid residues long. It functions as a regulatory module of DE intracellular signaling cascades by interacting with high affinity to DE phosphotyrosine-containing target peptides in a sequence-specific and DE strictly phosphorylation-dependent manner. HI Domain: SH2 domain. CA Domain. // ID SH3 domain. AC KW-0728 DE Protein with at least one Src homology 3 (SH3) domain It is a small DE protein domain of about 50 amino-acid residues first identified as a DE conserved sequence in the non-catalytic part of several cytoplasmic DE protein tyrosine kinases (e.g. Src). Since then, it has been found in DE a great variety of other intracellular or membrane-associated DE proteins. The SH3 module might mediate the assembly of specific DE protein complexes by binding to proline-rich peptides. HI Domain: SH3 domain. CA Domain. // ID SH3-binding. AC KW-0729 DE Protein with at least one SH3-binding site and which mediates the DE binding to the Src homology 3 (SH3) region, a module present in a DE large group of proteins, including cytoskeletal elements and signaling DE proteins. GO GO:0017124; SH3 domain binding HI Domain: SH3-binding. CA Domain. // ID Short QT syndrome. AC KW-0940 DE Protein which, if defective, causes short QT syndrome, a heart DE disorder characterized by the presence of a short QT interval on ECG, DE associated with syncope, palpitations, cardiac arrest and sudden DE death. SY SQTS. HI Disease: Short QT syndrome. CA Disease. // ID Sialic acid. AC KW-0730 DE Protein with at least one sialic acid. The term "sialic acid" refers DE to the group of sugars including neuraminic acid and its derivatives, DE not to a specific sugar. They are widely distributed in bacteria and DE animal tissue as components of polysaccharides, glycoproteins and DE glycolipids. They are typically the terminal residues on cell surface DE oligosaccharides. HI PTM: Glycoprotein; Sialic acid. HI Ligand: Sialic acid. CA Ligand. // ID Sigma factor. AC KW-0731 DE Initiation factors that bind to bacterial DNA-dependent RNA DE polymerases and promote attachment to specific initiation sites on DE DNA. Following attachment, the sigma factor is released. GO GO:0006355; regulation of DNA-templated transcription GO GO:0016987; sigma factor activity HI Biological process: Transcription; Transcription regulation; Sigma factor. HI Molecular function: Sigma factor. CA Molecular function. // ID Signal. AC KW-0732 DE Protein which has a signal sequence, a peptide usually present at the DE N-terminus of proteins and which is destined to be either secreted or DE part of membrane components. The signal sequence (usually 20-30 amino DE acids long) interacts with the signal recognition particle and directs DE the ribosome to the endoplasmic reticulum where co-translational DE insertion takes place. Signal peptides are highly hydrophobic but have DE some positively charged amino acids. Normally, the signal sequence is DE removed from the growing peptide chain by specific peptidases (signal DE peptidases) located on the cisternal face of the endoplasmic DE reticulum. SY Signal peptide; Signal sequence. HI Domain: Signal. CA Domain. // ID Signal recognition particle. AC KW-0733 DE Protein of the signal recognition particle (SRP) which is a cytosolic DE ribonucleoprotein complex that induces elongation arrest of nascent DE presecretory and membrane proteins until the ribosome becomes DE associated with the rough endoplasmic reticulum or the prokaryotic DE cytoplasmic membrane. GO GO:0005786; signal recognition particle, endoplasmic reticulum targeting HI Molecular function: Ribonucleoprotein; Signal recognition particle. HI Cellular component: Signal recognition particle. CA Cellular component. // ID Signal transduction inhibitor. AC KW-0734 DE Protein which inhibits signal transduction, the process by which DE extracellular signals induce intracellular responses. Usually a DE hormone or neurotransmitter binds to a cell surface receptor which is DE coupled to a second messenger system, such as that involving cAMP, or DE to an ion channel. The final downstream consequence of signal DE transduction is a change in the cell's function, such as a DE modification in glucose uptake or in cell division. Such a change may DE be the result of an activation or an inhibition event. GO GO:0009968; negative regulation of signal transduction HI Molecular function: Signal transduction inhibitor. CA Molecular function. // ID Signal-anchor. AC KW-0735 DE Single-pass transmembrane protein (type II, III, and IV) possessing a DE membrane-spanning domain which targets the protein to the ER membrane. DE Typical features of signal-anchors are the presence of positively DE charged residues on the amino terminal side followed by an apolar DE segment of approx. 20 residues. The amino-acid composition is not very DE different from typical signal sequences. HI Domain: Transmembrane; Signal-anchor. CA Domain. // ID Signalosome. AC KW-0736 DE Protein of the signalosome complex, a multifunctional protein complex DE essential for development and possibly involved in the regulation of DE protein degradation. SY COP9 complex; COP9 signalosome; COP9 signalosome complex; CSN. GO GO:0008180; COP9 signalosome HI Cellular component: Signalosome. CA Cellular component. // ID Silk protein. AC KW-0737 DE Protein found in silk, a strong, soft, lustrous fiber made of fibroin, DE a structural protein consisting almost entirely of stacked DE antiparallel beta pleated sheets. It is produced by certain spiders DE and by the larvae of certain bombycine moths. HI Molecular function: Silk protein. CA Molecular function. // ID Sodium. AC KW-0915 DE Protein which binds at least one sodium, or protein whose function is DE sodium-dependent. Sodium is an alkali metal, chemical symbol Na. HI Ligand: Sodium. WW https://www.webelements.com/sodium/ CA Ligand. // ID Sodium channel. AC KW-0894 DE Protein which is part of a cation channel permeable for sodium found DE in the plasma membrane and in intracellular membranes. Sodium channels DE have been classified according to their gating mechanisms, which may DE depend on changes in the transmembrane electric field (voltage-gated DE sodium channels) or not (non-voltage-gated sodium channels, e.g. DE degenerins which are permeable also to lithium and potassium). DE Voltage-gated sodium channels, by opening in response to membrane DE depolarization, allow sodium entry and thus the propagation of DE depolarization along the plasma membrane of nerve, muscle and other DE electrically excitable cells. They play a role in different processes DE such as sensation, emotions, thought and movement. Another class of DE sodium channel is the degenerin/epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) DE superfamily, which is a group of proteins involved in diverse DE biological processes, including sodium homeostasis, salt taste, DE nociception, pain transduction, touch sensation and DE mechanotransduction. GO GO:0005272; sodium channel activity HI Molecular function: Ion channel; Sodium channel. HI Biological process: Transport; Ion transport; Sodium transport; Sodium channel. HI Ligand: Sodium; Sodium channel. CA Molecular function. // ID Sodium transport. AC KW-0739 DE Protein involved in the movement of sodium ions across energy- DE transducing cell membranes. Primary active sodium transport is coupled DE to an energy-yielding chemical reaction such as ATP hydrolysis. DE Secondary active transport utilizes the voltage and ion gradients DE produced by the primary transport to drive the cotransport of other DE ions or molecules. These may be transported in the same (symport) or DE opposite (antiport) direction. GO GO:0006814; sodium ion transport HI Biological process: Transport; Ion transport; Sodium transport. HI Ligand: Sodium; Sodium transport. CA Biological process. // ID Sodium/potassium transport. AC KW-0740 DE Protein involved in the active transport system which simultaneously DE moves two potassium ions into the cell and three sodium ions out of DE the cell. GO GO:0006813; potassium ion transport GO GO:0006814; sodium ion transport HI Ligand: Potassium; Sodium/potassium transport. HI Biological process: Transport; Ion transport; Potassium transport; Sodium/potassium transport. HI Biological process: Transport; Ion transport; Sodium transport; Sodium/potassium transport. HI Ligand: Sodium; Sodium/potassium transport. CA Biological process. // ID SOS mutagenesis. AC KW-0741 DE Protein involved in the DNA repair system also known as error-prone DE repair in which apurinic DNA molecules are repaired by the DE incorporation of a base that may be the wrong base but that permits DE replication. HI Biological process: DNA damage; SOS response; SOS mutagenesis. CA Biological process. // ID SOS response. AC KW-0742 DE Protein involved in an SOS response, which implies the coordinated DE activation of diverse unlinked genes (ca. 20 in E.coli) involved in DE DNA repair, error-prone DNA replication, etc., in response to severe DE DNA damage. The SOS system is tightly regulated and its expression DE only occurs when absolutely required. SY SOS repair system; SOS response system; SOS system. GO GO:0009432; SOS response HI Biological process: DNA damage; SOS response. CA Biological process. // ID Spermatogenesis. AC KW-0744 DE Protein involved in sperm cell development. A process whereby DE primordial germ cells form mature spermatozoa, which includes DE spermatocytogenesis (successive mitotic and meiotic divisions) and DE spermiogenesis (a metamorphic change). GO GO:0007283; spermatogenesis HI Biological process: Differentiation; Spermatogenesis. WW https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spermatogenesis CA Biological process. // ID Spermidine biosynthesis. AC KW-0745 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of spermidine, a widely distributed DE polyamine which acts as a growth factor for some microorganisms and DE stabilizes the membrane structure of bacteria, as well as the DE structure of ribosomes, some viruses and the DNA of many organisms. SY N-(3-aminopropyl)-1,4-butanediamine. GO GO:0008295; spermidine biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Spermidine biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Sphingolipid metabolism. AC KW-0746 DE Protein involved in the biochemical reactions of sphingolipids. These DE are structurally complex saponifiable lipids which contain a fatty DE acid covalently linked to the amino alcohol sphingosine (or a related DE base), as backbone structure, to which is attached a polar head group. DE They are synthesized in the Golgi complex and are important membrane DE components in both plant and animal cells. They are present in DE especially large amounts in brain and nerve tissue. GO GO:0006665; sphingolipid metabolic process HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Sphingolipid metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Spinocerebellar ataxia. AC KW-0950 DE Protein which, if defective, causes autosomal dominant spinocerebellar DE ataxia, a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of autosomal DE dominant cerebellar ataxias (ADCA). Patients show progressive DE incoordination of gait and often poor coordination of hands, speech DE and eye movements. Spinocerebellar ataxia is caused by degeneration of DE the cerebellum with variable involvement of the brainstem and spinal DE cord. Three clinical types are distinguished, according to the extent DE of extra-cerebellar signs: cerebellar ataxia with additional features DE like optic atrophy, ophthalmoplegia, bulbar and extrapyramidal signs, DE peripheral neuropathy and dementia, is known as ADCA type I; DE cerebellar ataxia with retinal degeneration and pigmentary macular DE dystrophy is defined as ADCA type II; pure cerebellar ataxia without DE additional signs is classified as ADCA type III. SY ADCA; Autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia; SY Autosomal dominant spinocerebellar ataxia; SY Olivopontocerebellar atrophy; OPCA; SCA; Spinocerebellar atrophy. HI Disease: Neurodegeneration; Spinocerebellar ataxia. CA Disease. // ID Spliceosome. AC KW-0747 DE Protein of the spliceosome, a very large complex of small nuclear DE RNA/protein particles (snRNPs) which assemble with pre-mRNA to achieve DE RNA splicing. GO GO:0005681; spliceosomal complex HI Biological process: mRNA processing; mRNA splicing; Spliceosome. HI Cellular component: Spliceosome. CA Cellular component. // ID Sporozoite. AC KW-0748 DE Protein expressed in the sporozoite stage which is the infectious DE stage of the malaria parasite. Malaria is transmitted by mosquitos to DE the vertebrate host. This term also refers to the motile infectious DE stage of other sporozoans (parasitic protozoans). HI Developmental stage: Sporozoite. CA Developmental stage. // ID Sporulation. AC KW-0749 DE Protein involved in the production of spores, i.e. sporulation. GO GO:0030435; sporulation resulting in formation of a cellular spore HI Biological process: Sporulation. CA Biological process. // ID Starch biosynthesis. AC KW-0750 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of starch, the carbohydrate storage DE of plants. Starch consists of amylose (a linear alpha(1-4)-glucan) and DE amylopectin (an alpha(1-4)-glucan with alpha(1-6)-branch points). DE Starch (glucans and amylopectins) is synthesised via the ADP-glucose DE pathway by three key enzymes: ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase, starch DE synthases and starch branching enzymes. The randomly branched glucan DE molecules are then specifically debranched via a debranching enzyme in DE order to produce amylopectins. Amylopectins are branched in highly DE ordered clusters and are crystalline in nature, but also contain DE covalently bound phosphate. GO GO:0019252; starch biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Starch biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Stargardt disease. AC KW-0751 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Stargardt disease (SD). SD is a DE hereditary degeneration of the macula lutea occurring between the ages DE of six and twenty, marked by rapid loss of visual accuity and by DE abnormal appearance and pigmentation of the macular aerea. SY SD. HI Disease: Stargardt disease. CA Disease. // ID Steroid biosynthesis. AC KW-0752 DE In vivo synthesis of steroids (steroidogenesis), a large group of DE complex polycyclic lipids that consist of a 17-carbon ring system. DE Examples are bile acids, sterols, various hormones and saponins. GO GO:0006694; steroid biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Lipid biosynthesis; Steroid biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Steroid metabolism. AC KW-0753 DE Protein involved in the biochemical reactions of steroids. Steroids DE are a large group of complex tetracyclic lipids that consist of a 17- DE carbon-ring system. Examples are bile acids, sterols, various hormones DE and saponins. GO GO:0008202; steroid metabolic process HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Steroid metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Steroid-binding. AC KW-0754 DE Protein which binds steroids. GO GO:0005496; steroid binding HI Ligand: Lipid-binding; Steroid-binding. CA Ligand. // ID Steroidogenesis. AC KW-0755 DE Biosynthesis of steroid hormones which takes place in the mitochondria DE of the adrenal cortex. Oxidation of two adjacent carbon atoms in the DE side chain of cholesterol, followed by the cleavage between them, DE produces pregnenolone, a precursor of all other steroid hormones. The DE hydroxylation and oxygenation reactions are catalyzed by cytochrome DE P450 and mixed-functions oxidases that use NADPH and O2. GO GO:0006694; steroid biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Steroidogenesis. CA Biological process. // ID Sterol biosynthesis. AC KW-0756 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of sterols, any steroid alcohol DE which are components of cell membranes in plants, animals and fungi. GO GO:0016126; sterol biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Lipid biosynthesis; Steroid biosynthesis; Sterol biosynthesis. HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Steroid metabolism; Sterol metabolism; Sterol biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Sterol metabolism. AC KW-1207 DE Protein involved in the metabolism of sterols, any steroid alcohol. DE Sterols are components of cell membranes in plants, animals and fungi. HI Biological process: Lipid metabolism; Steroid metabolism; Sterol metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Stickler syndrome. AC KW-0757 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Stickler syndrome (STL), also DE known as hereditary progressive arthro-ophthalmopathy. It is a DE genetically and phenotypically heterogeneous disorder with ocular, DE oro-facial, auditory and skeletal manifestations. Clinical features DE include high myopia, vitreo-retinal degeneration, retinal detachment, DE cleft palate, midfacial hypoplasia, osteoarthritis, and sensorineural DE hearing loss. Inheritance is autosomal dominant. SY STL. HI Disease: Stickler syndrome. CA Disease. // ID Storage protein. AC KW-0758 DE Protein which is a source of nutrients for the development or growth DE of an organism. GO GO:0045735; nutrient reservoir activity HI Molecular function: Storage protein. CA Molecular function. // ID Streptomycin biosynthesis. AC KW-0759 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of streptomycin, an antibiotic DE substance produced by the soil actinomycete Streptomyces griseus. The DE three parts of the molecule (streptidine-6-P, dTDP-dihydrostreptose DE and N-methyl-glucosamine) are synthesized by separate biochemical DE pathways and the subunits brought together at the end. The final DE intermediate in the pathway, streptomycin P, becomes biologically DE active upon removal of the phosphate. The synthesis of the key DE streptomycin biosynthesis enzymes is mainly regulated by differing DE levels of factor A. Streptomycin binds to the small subunit of DE ribosomes of prokaryotic cells and causes inhibition and misreading. GO GO:0019872; streptomycin biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Antibiotic biosynthesis; Streptomycin biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Stress response. AC KW-0346 DE Protein involved in the response to stress, a change in state or DE activity of a cell or an organism (in terms of movement, secretion, DE enzyme production, gene expression, etc.) as a result of some DE stressful conditions. The stress is usually, but not necessarily, DE exogenous (e.g. temperature, humidity, ionizing radiation, DE hypertonicity, amino acid deprivation). HI Biological process: Stress response. CA Biological process. // ID Sugar transport. AC KW-0762 DE Protein involved in the transfer of sugars across a biological DE membrane by a carrier protein. GO GO:0008643; carbohydrate transport HI Biological process: Transport; Sugar transport. CA Biological process. // ID Sulfate respiration. AC KW-0763 DE Protein involved in sulfate respiration, which is the use of sulfate DE (or other oxidized compounds of sulfur) as the terminal electron DE acceptor in the anaerobic respiratory metabolism of sulfate- or DE sulfur-reducing bacteria. SY Dissimilatory sulfate reduction. GO GO:0009061; anaerobic respiration HI Biological process: Sulfate respiration. CA Biological process. // ID Sulfate transport. AC KW-0764 DE Protein involved in the translocation of sulfate, or sulfate- DE containing compounds, such as thiosulfate, across a biological DE membrane. GO GO:0008272; sulfate transport HI Biological process: Transport; Sulfate transport. CA Biological process. // ID Sulfation. AC KW-0765 DE Protein which is posttranslationally modified by the attachment of at DE least one sulfate group to a tyrosine residue. Serine and threonine DE may also serve as sulfate group acceptors. SY Sulfatation. HI PTM: Sulfation. CA PTM. // ID Superantigen. AC KW-0766 DE Bacterial or virus secreted protein that induces a strong T-lymphocyte DE activity. When a normal antigen stimulates 0,001% of the body's T- DE cells, superantigens can stimulate up to 20% of body's T-cells. They DE simultaneously interact with the Vb domain of the T-cell receptor DE (TCR) and with the class II major histocompatibility complex (MHC) DE molecules on the surface of an antigen-presenting cell. This compels DE the MHC to interact with the TCR, thereby inducing T-cells activation. DE Most superantigens are bacterial toxins, but some are produced by DE viruses. Staphylococcal enterotoxins are the best known superantigens. SY SAG. HI Molecular function: Superantigen. CA Molecular function. // ID Superinfection exclusion. AC KW-1260 DE Viral protein that is expressed by a prokaryotic virus, integrated or DE not, to help protect the host cell from superinfection, a process by DE which a cell that has previously been infected by one virus DE subsequently gets coinfected with a different strain of the virus, or DE another virus. Superinfection exclusion can be achieved for example by DE expressing viral enzymes that alter a portion of a surface receptor DE thereby blocking entry of incoming viruses with this receptor DE specificity. Exclusion protein can also target and block the ejection DE and/or DNA delivery by new incoming phages. GO GO:0098669; superinfection exclusion HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Superinfection exclusion. CA Biological process. // ID Suppressor of RNA silencing. AC KW-0941 DE Protein which suppresses host RNA-mediated gene silencing. The most DE common form of RNA-mediated gene silencing is RNA interference (RNAi), DE a sequence-specific RNA-degradation mechanism that operates as a DE natural antiviral system in plants and invertebrates cells. RNAi is DE mediated by small interfering RNAs (siRNA) of about 21- to 25-nt that DE target homologous RNAs for destruction. RNA silencing by endogenous DE micro-RNAs (miRNAs) may also play a role in the antiviral defences of DE mammals. miRNAs differ from siRNAs in that they generally base pair DE imperfectly with target RNAs and inhibit their translation by an DE unknown mechanism. SY Suppressor of RNAi; Suppressor of RNA interference. HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion; Inhibition of host innate immune response by virus; Suppressor of RNA silencing. CA Biological process. // ID Surface film. AC KW-0767 DE Protein found in the film of pulmonary surfactants which cover the DE alveolar surface of the mammalian lung. These surfactants are composed DE of 90% phospholipids and 10% proteins. GO GO:0005576; extracellular region HI Biological process: Gaseous exchange; Surface film. HI Cellular component: Secreted; Surface film. CA Cellular component. // ID Sushi. AC KW-0768 DE Protein which contains at least one sushi domain, a motif of DE approximately 60 amino acids characterized by a framework of four DE conserved half-cystine residues (1-3 and 2-4 disulfide-bonded) and DE several other highly conserved residues including proline, tryptophan, DE tyrosine/phenylalanine and cysteine. This type of structure, also DE designated SCR (Short Consensus Repeat), is predominantly present in DE proteins associated with the complement system. HI Domain: Sushi. CA Domain. // ID Symport. AC KW-0769 DE Protein involved in the transport of solutes across a biological DE membrane in one direction, which depends on the transport of another DE solute in the same direction. One molecule can move up an DE electrochemical gradient because the movement of the other molecule is DE more favorable. Example: the sodium/glucose co-transport. GO GO:0015293; symporter activity HI Biological process: Transport; Symport. CA Biological process. // ID Synapse. AC KW-0770 DE Protein found in the synapses. Synapses are the communicating cell- DE cell junctions that allow signals to pass from a nerve cell to a DE target cell. In a chemical synapse, the signal is carried by a DE neurotransmitter which diffuses across a narrow synaptic cleft and DE activates a receptor on the postsynaptic membrane of the target cell. DE The target may be a dendrite, cell body, neuronal axon, a specialized DE region of a muscle or a secretory cell. In an electrical synapse, a DE direct connection is made between the cytoplasms of two cells via gap DE junctions. GO GO:0045202; synapse HI Cellular component: Synapse. CA Cellular component. // ID Synaptosome. AC KW-0771 DE Protein found in synaptosomes, the pinched-off nerve endings and their DE contents of vesicles and cytoplasm together with the attached DE subsynaptic area of the membrane of the postsynaptic cell. They are DE largely artificial structures produced by fractionation after DE selective centrifugation of nervous tissue homogenates. GO GO:0043005; neuron projection HI Cellular component: Synapse; Synaptosome. CA Cellular component. // ID Syncytium formation induced by viral infection. AC KW-1180 DE Viral protein that mediates fusion of an infected cell with DE neighboring cells leading to the formation of multi-nucleate enlarged DE cells called syncytia. Usually these syncytia are the result of DE expression of a viral fusion protein at the host cell membrane during DE viral replication. Viruses such as herpesviruses are known to induce DE the formation of syncytia. SY Induction by virus of host cell-cell fusion; SY Polykaryons formation in virally infected cells. GO GO:0060141; positive regulation of syncytium formation by virus HI Biological process: Syncytium formation induced by viral infection. CA Biological process. // ID Systemic lupus erythematosus. AC KW-0772 DE Protein involved in the systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), a chronic DE autoimmune disease where the immune system is over-active and produces DE too many abnormal antibodies that react with the patient's own DE tissues. The exact cause of lupus is not known, but heredity, DE environment and hormonal changes may be involved. The immune complex DE deposition in many tissues leads to the manifestations of the disease. DE Immune complexes can be deposited in glomeruli, skin, lungs, synovium, DE mesothelium, and other places. Many SLE patients develop renal DE complications. SY SLE. HI Disease: Systemic lupus erythematosus. CA Disease. // ID T cell receptor. AC KW-1279 DE The T cell receptor (TCR) is the antigen receptor expressed on CD4- DE positive and CD8-positive T lymphocytes that recognizes complexes of DE peptides bound to self-MHC molecules on the surface of antigen DE presenting cells. Structurally, TCR is composed of a heterodimer of DE two disulfide-linked transmembrane polypeptide chains designated alpha DE and beta, each containing one terminal immunoglobulin (Ig)-like DE variable domain, one Ig-like constant domain, a hydrophobic DE transmembrane region and a short cytoplasmic region. A less common DE type of TCR, composed of gamma and delta chains, is found on a small DE subset of T cells and recognizes different forms of antigens. Each T DE cell expresses a unique TCR that is generated by randomly assorting DE genes. This ensures that T cells can respond (at the population level) DE to almost any infection. GO GO:0042101; T cell receptor complex HI Biological process: Immunity; Adaptive immunity; T cell receptor. HI Cellular component: T cell receptor. CA Cellular component. // ID T=1 icosahedral capsid protein. AC KW-1140 DE Viral protein that forms an icosahedral capsid with a T=1 symmetry to DE protect the viral genome. The T=1 capsid is composed of 60 subunits, DE each subunit occupying a quasi-equivalent position. The capsid DE diameter ranges from 18 to 35 nm. GO GO:0039615; T=1 icosahedral viral capsid HI Cellular component: Virion; Capsid protein; T=1 icosahedral capsid protein. HI Cellular component: Virion; T=1 icosahedral capsid protein. CA Cellular component. // ID T=13 icosahedral capsid protein. AC KW-1146 DE Viral protein that forms an icosahedral capsid with a T=13 symmetry to DE protect the viral genome. The T=13 capsid is composed of 780 subunits, DE each subunit occupying a quasi-equivalent position. Its diameter DE ranges from 70 to 80 nm. GO GO:0039621; T=13 icosahedral viral capsid HI Cellular component: Virion; Capsid protein; T=13 icosahedral capsid protein. HI Cellular component: Virion; T=13 icosahedral capsid protein. CA Cellular component. // ID T=147 icosahedral capsid protein. AC KW-1149 DE Viral protein that forms an icosahedral capsid with a T=147 symmetry DE to protect the viral genome. The T=147 capsid is composed of 8820 DE subunits. Its diameter is about 185 nm. GO GO:0039627; T=147 icosahedral capsid HI Cellular component: Virion; Capsid protein; T=147 icosahedral capsid protein. HI Cellular component: Virion; T=147 icosahedral capsid protein. CA Cellular component. // ID T=16 icosahedral capsid protein. AC KW-1147 DE Viral protein that forms an icosahedral capsid with a T=16 symmetry to DE protect the viral genome. The T=16 capsid is composed of 960 subunits, DE each subunit occupying a quasi-equivalent position. Its diameter is DE about 100 nm. GO GO:0039622; T=16 icosahedral viral capsid HI Cellular component: Virion; Capsid protein; T=16 icosahedral capsid protein. HI Cellular component: Virion; T=16 icosahedral capsid protein. CA Cellular component. // ID T=169 icosahedral capsid protein. AC KW-1150 DE Viral protein that forms an icosahedral capsid with a T=169 symmetry DE to protect the viral genome. The T=169 capsid is composed of 10140 DE subunits. Its diameter is about 165-190 nm. GO GO:0039628; T=169 icosahedral viral capsid HI Cellular component: Virion; Capsid protein; T=169 icosahedral capsid protein. HI Cellular component: Virion; T=169 icosahedral capsid protein. CA Cellular component. // ID T=2 icosahedral capsid protein. AC KW-1141 DE Viral protein that forms an icosahedral capsid with a T=2* symmetry to DE protect the viral genome. The T=2* capsid is composed of 120 subunits. DE The T=2* symmetry does not exist under the rules described by Caspar DE and Klug, strictly speaking the capsid has a T=1 symmetry composed of DE 60 dimeric subunits. The capsid diameter is about 40 nm. GO GO:0039616; T=2 icosahedral viral capsid HI Cellular component: Virion; Capsid protein; T=2 icosahedral capsid protein. HI Cellular component: Virion; T=2 icosahedral capsid protein. CA Cellular component. // ID T=219 icosahedral capsid protein. AC KW-1151 DE Viral protein that forms an icosahedral capsid with a T=219 symmetry DE to protect the viral genome. The T=219 capsid is composed of 13140 DE subunits. Its diameter is about 130-160 nm. GO GO:0039629; T=219 icosahedral capsid HI Cellular component: Virion; Capsid protein; T=219 icosahedral capsid protein. HI Cellular component: Virion; T=219 icosahedral capsid protein. CA Cellular component. // ID T=25 icosahedral capsid protein. AC KW-1148 DE Viral protein that forms an icosahedral capsid with a T=25 symmetry to DE protect the viral genome. The T=25 capsid is composed of 1500 DE subunits, each subunit occupying a quasi-equivalent position. Its DE diameter is about 90 nm. GO GO:0039623; T=25 icosahedral viral capsid HI Cellular component: Virion; Capsid protein; T=25 icosahedral capsid protein. HI Cellular component: Virion; T=25 icosahedral capsid protein. CA Cellular component. // ID T=3 icosahedral capsid protein. AC KW-1142 DE Viral protein that forms an icosahedral capsid with a T=3 symmetry to DE protect the viral genome. The T=3 capsid is composed of 180 subunits, DE each subunit occupying a quasi-equivalent position. The capsid DE diameter ranges from 26 to 40 nm. GO GO:0039617; T=3 icosahedral viral capsid HI Cellular component: Virion; Capsid protein; T=3 icosahedral capsid protein. HI Cellular component: Virion; T=3 icosahedral capsid protein. CA Cellular component. // ID T=4 icosahedral capsid protein. AC KW-1144 DE Viral protein that forms an icosahedral capsid with a T=4 symmetry to DE protect the viral genome. The T=4 capsid is composed of 240 subunits, DE each subunit occupying a quasi-equivalent position. The capsid DE diameter ranges from 30 to 40 nm. GO GO:0039619; T=4 icosahedral viral capsid HI Cellular component: Virion; Capsid protein; T=4 icosahedral capsid protein. HI Cellular component: Virion; T=4 icosahedral capsid protein. CA Cellular component. // ID T=7 icosahedral capsid protein. AC KW-1145 DE Viral protein that forms an icosahedral capsid with a T=7 symmetry to DE protect the viral genome. The T=7 capsid is composed of 420 subunits, DE each subunit occupying a quasi-equivalent position. Papillomavirus and DE Polyomavirus T=7 capsids are composed of pentameric capsomeres for a DE total of 360 capsid proteins. Its diameter ranges from 45 to 60 nm. GO GO:0039620; T=7 icosahedral viral capsid HI Cellular component: Virion; Capsid protein; T=7 icosahedral capsid protein. HI Cellular component: Virion; T=7 icosahedral capsid protein. CA Cellular component. // ID T=pseudo3 icosahedral capsid protein. AC KW-1143 DE Viral protein that forms an icosahedral capsid with a pseudo T=3 DE symmetry to protect the viral genome. The pseudo T=pseudo3 capsid is DE composed of 180 subunits. Each subunit does not occupy a quasi- DE equivalent position, therefore the structure is called pseudo. The DE capsid diameter ranges from 26 to 40 nm. GO GO:0039618; T=pseudo3 icosahedral viral capsid HI Cellular component: Virion; Capsid protein; T=pseudo3 icosahedral capsid protein. HI Cellular component: Virion; T=pseudo3 icosahedral capsid protein. CA Cellular component. // ID Tachyzoite. AC KW-1137 DE Protein expressed in the infectious tachyzoite stage, a rapidly DE growing, lytic and disease-causing stage in the life stage of DE coccidians (e.g. Toxoplasmy). Tachyzoites, which can infect most DE nucleated cells, replicate inside a parasitophorous vacuole, egress, DE and then infect neighboring cells. Aggregates of numerous tachyzoites DE are called clones, terminal colonies, or groups. SY Endodyozoite; Endozoite. HI Developmental stage: Tachyzoite. CA Developmental stage. // ID Target cell cytoplasm. AC KW-1266 DE Protein found in a target cell cytoplasm, the contents of a target DE cell within the plasma membrane and which, in eukaryotic cells, DE surrounds the host nucleus. This term is used to describe a toxin DE located in the cytoplasm of a target cell. SY Target cytoplasm. HI Cellular component: Target cell cytoplasm. CA Cellular component. // ID Target cell membrane. AC KW-1052 DE Protein found in or associated with a target cell membrane, the DE selectively permeable membrane which separates the target cell DE cytoplasm from its surroundings. This term is used to describe a toxin DE located to the cell membrane of a target cell. SY Target cytoplasmic membrane; Target plasmalemma; SY Target plasma membrane. HI Cellular component: Membrane; Target membrane; Target cell membrane. CA Cellular component. // ID Target membrane. AC KW-1053 DE Protein which is membrane-bound or membrane-associated with the target DE membrane, a lipid bilayer which surrounds target cell enclosed spaces DE and compartments. This selectively permeable structure is essential DE for effective separation of a target cell or targeet cell organelle DE from its surroundings. This term is used to describe a toxin located DE to a membrane of a target cell. GO GO:0044218; other organism cell membrane HI Cellular component: Membrane; Target membrane. CA Cellular component. // ID Taste. AC KW-0919 DE Protein involved in taste signal transduction. Human perceives five DE basic taste qualities: bitter, salty, sour, sweet, and umami, the DE taste of glutamate. Taste perception begins when a taste-eliciting DE molecule, or tastant, interacts with specialized receptors in the DE membrane of taste receptor cells. Taste responses to bitter, sweet, DE and umami compounds are initiated by G-protein-coupled receptors and DE transduced via G-protein signaling cascades. Salty and sour tastes are DE transduced by ion channels. SY Gustation. GO GO:0050909; sensory perception of taste HI Biological process: Sensory transduction; Taste. CA Biological process. // ID Taste-modifying protein. AC KW-0776 DE Protein that function as a natural sweetener or flavor enhancer. TMPs DE are found in the fruit or seed of several plants and show no primary DE sequence similarity. TMPs interact with taste receptors in a potent DE and specific manner. TMPs are natural and have been used by some DE cultures for centuries. West Africans have long used TMPs to improve DE flavor and suppress bitterness of food and drink. SY Sweet-taste protein; TMP. HI Molecular function: Taste-modifying protein. CA Molecular function. // ID Taxol biosynthesis. AC KW-0876 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of taxol, a complex diterpenoid DE isolated from the bark of yew (Taxus) species. Taxol is a potent DE antimitotic agent with activity against a number of leukamias and DE solid tumors. It has become a chemotherapeutic drug under the generic DE name of paclitaxel. SY Paclitaxel biosynthesis. GO GO:0042617; paclitaxel biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Taxol biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // IC Technical term. AC KW-9990 DE Keywords assigned to proteins according to 'technical' reasons. // ID Teichoic acid biosynthesis. AC KW-0777 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of teichoic acid, a polymer of DE mainly glycerol phosphate or ribitol phosphate substituted extensively DE with amino acids and/or sugars. Teichoic acid occurs in the cell wall DE of Gram-positive bacteria. SY C polysaccharide biosynthesis. GO GO:0019350; teichoic acid biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Teichoic acid biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Tellurium resistance. AC KW-0778 DE Protein that confers resistance to tellurium. GO GO:0046690; response to tellurium ion HI Biological process: Tellurium resistance. CA Biological process. // ID Telomere. AC KW-0779 DE Protein involved in telomere replication, length regulation, DE structure, etc. The telomere is a nucleoprotein structure comprising DE the terminal section of a eukaryotic chromosome. It has a specialized DE structure which is replicated by a special process, thereby DE counteracting the tendency of a chromosome to be shortened during each DE round of replication. GO GO:0000781; chromosome, telomeric region HI Cellular component: Chromosome; Telomere. CA Cellular component. // ID Terminal addition. AC KW-0780 DE Protein involved in the random addition of deoxynucleoside 5'- DE triphosphate to the 3'end of a DNA initiator. GO GO:0003912; DNA nucleotidylexotransferase activity GO GO:0006304; DNA modification HI Molecular function: Transferase; Nucleotidyltransferase; Terminal addition. HI Biological process: Terminal addition. CA Biological process. // ID Tetrahydrobiopterin biosynthesis. AC KW-0783 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of tetrahydrobiopterin, the reduced DE form of dihydrobiopterin, a reduced pteridine derivative related to DE folic acid. It is a coenzyme for the enzyme phenylalanine-4- DE hydroxylase which is involved in phenylalanine degradation. GO GO:0006729; tetrahydrobiopterin biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Tetrahydrobiopterin biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Thiamine biosynthesis. AC KW-0784 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of thiamine, a water-soluble vitamin DE member of the vitamin B complex. It occurs in cells largely as its DE active coenzyme form thiamine pyrophosphate, formerly called DE cocarboxylase. Thiamine is necessary in the diet of most vertebrates DE and some microorganisms. Its deficiency causes beriberi in man and DE polyneuritis in birds. Thiamine pyrophosphate serves as coenzyme in DE aldehyde-group transfers. SY Aneurin biosynthesis; Thiamin biosynthesis; Vitamin B1 biosynthesis. GO GO:0009228; thiamine biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Thiamine biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Thiamine catabolism. AC KW-0785 DE Protein involved in the degradation of thiamine, a water-soluble DE vitamin which is a member of the vitamin B complex. It occurs in cells DE largely as its active coenzyme form thiamine pyrophosphate, formerly DE called cocarboxylase. Thiamine is necessary in the diet of most DE vertebrates and some microorganisms. Its deficiency causes beriberi in DE man and polyneuritis in birds. Thiamine pyrophosphate serves as a DE coenzyme in aldehyde-group transfers. SY Aneurin catabolism; Thiamin catabolism; Vitamin B1 catabolism. GO GO:0009230; thiamine catabolic process HI Biological process: Thiamine catabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Thiamine pyrophosphate. AC KW-0786 DE Protein which contains at least one thiamine pyrophosphate, the active DE form of vitamin B1 (thiamine). It is a required coenzyme for the DE pyruvate decarboxylase, pyruvate dehydrogenase and ketoglutarate DE dehydrogenase reactions. SY TDP; Thiamin diphosphate; Thiamin pyrophosphate; TPP. HI Ligand: Thiamine pyrophosphate. CA Ligand. // ID Thick filament. AC KW-0787 DE Protein found in, or associated with, the thick filaments which are DE formed by bipolar myosin-II filaments (12-14 nm in diameter, 1.6 mm DE long) found striated muscle. Myosin filaments elsewhere are often DE referred to as 'thick filaments', although their length may be DE considerably less. The myosin heads project from the thick filament in DE a regular fashion. GO GO:0032982; myosin filament HI Molecular function: Muscle protein; Thick filament. HI Cellular component: Thick filament. CA Cellular component. // ID Thioester bond. AC KW-0882 DE Protein which is posttranslationally modified by the formation of a DE thioester crosslink between two amino acids in the polypeptidic DE chain(s), usually formed between a cysteine side chain and the DE carboxamide group of an asparagine or glutamine side chain. SY Thiolester bond. HI PTM: Thioester bond. CA PTM. // ID Thioether bond. AC KW-0883 DE Protein which is posttranslationally modified by the formation of a DE thioether crosslink between two amino acids in the polypeptidic DE chain(s), usually formed between a cysteine side chain and the side DE chain of a serine or a threonine. HI PTM: Thioether bond. CA PTM. // ID Thiol protease. AC KW-0788 DE Proteolytic enzyme with a cysteine residue (Cys) in its active site. DE There are many families of thiol proteases. The most well known one is DE the papain family (C1 in MEROPS classification) which is known to DE exist in most eukaryotes. SY Sulfhydryl protease; Thiol peptidase; Thiol proteinase. GO GO:0008234; cysteine-type peptidase activity HI Molecular function: Hydrolase; Protease; Thiol protease. CA Molecular function. // ID Thiol protease inhibitor. AC KW-0789 DE Protein which inhibits the activity of a thiol protease, a class of DE proteases that contains an active site cysteine residue (Cys), e.g. DE papain, cathepsins, etc. SY Thiol peptidase inhibitor; Thiol proteinase inhibitor. GO GO:0004869; cysteine-type endopeptidase inhibitor activity HI Molecular function: Protease inhibitor; Thiol protease inhibitor. CA Molecular function. // ID Threonine biosynthesis. AC KW-0791 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of the essential amino acid DE threonine. GO GO:0009088; threonine biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Amino-acid biosynthesis; Threonine biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Threonine protease. AC KW-0888 DE Proteolytic enzyme with a threonine residue (Thr) in its active site. DE The prototype members of this class of enzymes are the proteasome DE catalytic subunits. GO GO:0004298; threonine-type endopeptidase activity HI Molecular function: Hydrolase; Protease; Threonine protease. CA Molecular function. // ID Thrombophilia. AC KW-0792 DE Protein which, if defective, causes thrombophilia, a disorder of DE hemostasis in which the individuals are prone to serious spontaneous DE thrombosis. SY Recurrent venous thrombosis. HI Biological process: Hemostasis; Blood coagulation; Thrombophilia. HI Disease: Thrombophilia. CA Disease. // ID Thylakoid. AC KW-0793 DE Protein located in or on the thylakoid, a membranous cisterna of the DE chloroplast. Thylakoids stack up to form the grana or stay as single DE cisternae and interconnect the grana. The thylakoid contains the DE photosynthetic pigments, reaction centers and electron-transport DE chain. Thylakoid, where photosynthesis occurs, are also found in DE cyanelles and in photosynthetic bacteria where they are the extensive DE invaginations of the plasma membrane. GO GO:0009579; thylakoid HI Cellular component: Thylakoid. CA Cellular component. // ID Thyroid hormone. AC KW-0795 DE Protein precursor of thyroid hormones which are secreted by the thymus DE gland and participate in the development of the lymphoid system as DE well as the maturation of the cellular immune response. Also used for DE proteins which bind thyroid hormones or thyroid hormone receptor DE antagonists. HI Molecular function: Hormone; Thyroid hormone. CA Molecular function. // ID Thyroid hormones biosynthesis. AC KW-0893 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of thyroid hormones. GO GO:0042446; hormone biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Thyroid hormones biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Tight junction. AC KW-0796 DE Protein which is a component of the tight junction or are associated DE with it. These specialized regions of the plasma membrane prevent the DE diffusion of dissolved molecules between adjacent epithelial cells, DE seal off body cavities such as intestine or stomach lumen and prevent DE the diffusion of membrane proteins and glycolipids between the apical DE and basolateral regions of the plasma membrane. GO GO:0005923; bicellular tight junction HI Cellular component: Cell junction; Tight junction. CA Cellular component. // ID Tissue remodeling. AC KW-0797 DE Protein involved in tissue remodeling. As an example the matrix- DE degrading plasminogen activators (PAs) and matrix metalloproteinases DE (MMPs) are general proteolytic enzyme systems which mediate tissue DE remodeling and tissue destruction in a variety of physiological and DE pathological conditions, including ovulation, angiogenesis, DE implantation, tumor invasion and inflammatory diseases such as DE rheumatoid arthritis (RA). GO GO:0048771; tissue remodeling HI Biological process: Tissue remodeling. CA Biological process. // ID TonB box. AC KW-0798 DE Protein with a TonB box. In Escherichia coli the TonB protein DE interacts with outer membrane receptor proteins that carry out high- DE affinity binding and energy-dependent uptake of specific substrates DE into the periplasmic space. These substrates are either poorly DE permeable through the porin channels or are encountered at very low DE concentrations. In the absence of TonB these receptors bind their DE substrates but do not carry out active transport. TonB also interacts DE with some colicins and is involved in the energy dependent, DE irreversible steps of bacteriophages phi-80 and T1 infection. HI Domain: TonB box. CA Domain. // ID Topoisomerase. AC KW-0799 DE Enzymes capable of altering the degree of supercoiling of double- DE stranded DNA molecules. Various topoisomerases can increase or relax DE supercoiling, convert single-stranded rings to intertwined double- DE stranded rings, tie and untie knots in single stranded and duplex DE rings or catenate and decatenate duplex rings. Any enzyme that cleaves DE only one strand of a DNA duplex and then reseals it is classified as a DE type I topoisomerase (Topo I). Type II topoisomerases (Topo II) change DE DNA topology by breaking and rejoining double-stranded DNA. GO GO:0003916; DNA topoisomerase activity HI Molecular function: Isomerase; Topoisomerase. CA Molecular function. // ID Toxin. AC KW-0800 DE Naturally-produced poisonous protein that damages or kills other DE cells, or the producing cells themselves in some cases in bacteria. DE Toxins are produced by venomous and poisonous animals, some plants, DE some fungi and some pathogenic bacteria. Animal toxins (mostly from DE snakes, scorpions, spiders, sea anemones and cone snails) are DE generally secreted in the venom of the animal. GO GO:0090729; toxin activity HI Molecular function: Toxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Toxin-antitoxin system. AC KW-1277 DE Bacterial, archaeal or viral protein belonging to a toxin-antitoxin DE (TA) system. Toxin protein expression is poisonous to the cell and is DE counteracted by its co-expressed, short-lived "antidote" antitoxin. DE Antitoxins can be protein (type II, IV, V, VI) or RNA (type I, III) DE and act directly or indirectly on the toxin protein or transcript. DE Genes for the 2 components are closely linked; in many type II TA DE systems the toxin-antitoxin complex regulates transcription of its DE operon. Toxins belong to recognizable protein families, antitoxins DE usually do not. Orphan toxin genes are occasionally found in complete DE genomes. SY Toxin-antitoxin module. HI Biological process: Toxin-antitoxin system. CA Biological process. // ID TPQ. AC KW-0801 DE Protein which is posttranslationally modified on a tyrosine residue to DE form TPQ. This modification of a strictly conserved active-site DE tyrosine residue proceeds via the hydroxylation of tyrosine to Topa DE (Trihydroxyphenylalanine) and then to TPQ (Topaquinone). It is a self- DE processing pathway requiring only the protein, copper and molecular DE oxygen. TPQ is the redox cofactor of most copper-containing amine DE oxidases. SY Topaquinone. HI PTM: TPQ. CA PTM. // ID TPR repeat. AC KW-0802 DE Protein with at least one TPR repeat. The TPR repeat of typically 34 DE amino acids was first described in the yeast cell division control DE protein 23 (CDC23) and later found to occur in a large number of DE proteins. A function for this repeat seems to be protein-protein DE interaction. SY Tetratricopeptide repeat. HI Domain: TPR repeat. CA Domain. // ID Transcription. AC KW-0804 DE Protein involved in the transfer of genetic information from DNA to DE messenger RNA (mRNA) by DNA-directed RNA polymerase. In the case of DE some RNA viruses, protein involved in the transfer of genetic DE information from RNA to messenger RNA (mRNA) by RNA-directed RNA DE polymerase. HI Biological process: Transcription. CA Biological process. // ID Transcription antitermination. AC KW-0889 DE Protein involved in transcription antitermination, the process whereby DE RNA polymerase is allowed to read through specific RNA secondary DE structures that normally terminate transcription. GO GO:0031564; transcription antitermination HI Biological process: Transcription; Transcription regulation; Transcription antitermination. CA Biological process. // ID Transcription regulation. AC KW-0805 DE Protein involved in the regulation of the transcription process. HI Biological process: Transcription; Transcription regulation. CA Biological process. // ID Transcription termination. AC KW-0806 DE Protein involved in transcription termination. GO GO:0006353; DNA-templated transcription termination HI Biological process: Transcription; Transcription regulation; Transcription termination. CA Biological process. // ID Transducer. AC KW-0807 DE Protein which converts an input signal into an output signal of a DE different form. GO GO:0007165; signal transduction HI Molecular function: Transducer. CA Molecular function. // ID Transferase. AC KW-0808 DE Enzyme that transfers a chemical group, e.g. a methyl group or a DE glycosyl group from one compound (donor) to another compound DE (acceptor). GO GO:0016740; transferase activity HI Molecular function: Transferase. CA Molecular function. // ID Transit peptide. AC KW-0809 DE Proteins which have an N-terminal presequence which directs them to an DE organelle (chloroplast, mitochondria, microbody, cyanelle). The DE transit peptide is required for their transport across the relevant DE membranes from their site of synthesis in the cytoplasm. HI Domain: Transit peptide. CA Domain. // ID Translation regulation. AC KW-0810 DE Protein involved in the regulation of peptide formation on ribosomes, DE directed by messenger RNA (mRNA). GO GO:0006417; regulation of translation HI Biological process: Translation regulation. CA Biological process. // ID Translational shunt. AC KW-1155 DE Protein which is involved in the translational shunt, an unusual DE translation process in which ribosomes are loaded onto mRNA at the 5'- DE cap structure, start scanning for a short distance before bypassing DE the large internal leader region and initiating at a downstream start DE site. Shunting operates in plants, animals, and yeast translational DE systems, both in vivo and in vitro. SY Ribosomal shunt; Ribosome shunt; Shunting. HI Molecular function: Translational shunt. CA Molecular function. // ID Translocase. AC KW-1278 DE Protein that uses enzyme activity to effect transmembrane transport, DE as exemplified by transmembrane transport coupled to ATP hydrolysis DE and oxidoreductases involved in transmembrane proton or electron DE transport. Not to be confused with ligand-gated ion channels or other DE transmembrane transporters without enzyme activity. HI Molecular function: Translocase. CA Molecular function. // ID Translocation. AC KW-0811 DE Protein involved in the transport of proteins across a membrane. As an DE example translocation into the nucleus occurs via nuclear pores which DE allow rapid diffusion of small molecules. Larger molecules (maximum 9 DE nm) take longer. Translocation into the mitochondria or chloroplast DE occurs at sites of adhesion between the outer and inner membranes and DE is driven by ATP hydrolysis as well as the electrochemical gradient of DE the inner membrane. GO GO:0015031; protein transport HI Biological process: Transport; Protein transport; Translocation. CA Biological process. // ID Transmembrane. AC KW-0812 DE Protein with at least one transmembrane domain, a membrane-spanning DE helical or beta-stranded domain embedded in a membrane. HI Cellular component: Membrane; Transmembrane. HI Domain: Transmembrane. CA Domain. // ID Transmembrane beta strand. AC KW-1134 DE Protein with at least one transmembrane beta stranded domain, a DE membrane-spanning stretch, typically 5-10 amino acids long, whose DE peptide backbones are almost fully extended with the sidechains of two DE neighboring residues projected in the opposite direction from the DE backbone. Two or more hydrogen bonded (parallel or anti-parallel) beta DE strands form a beta sheet. A beta barrel is formed by a closed beta DE sheet around a central pore. Beta barrels consist usually of an even DE number of beta strands (between 8 and 24), they are found only in DE bacterial outer membranes, mitochondria and plastids. HI Cellular component: Membrane; Transmembrane beta strand. HI Domain: Transmembrane; Transmembrane beta strand. CA Domain. // ID Transmembrane helix. AC KW-1133 DE Protein with at least one transmembrane helical domain, a membrane- DE spanning domain with an hydrogen-bonded helical configuration, DE including alpha-, 3-10-, and pi-helices. The transmembrane alpha-helix DE is very common, while the 3-10-helix is found at the ends of alpha- DE helices and the pi-helix, is more rare. SY Alpha-helical transmembrane; Pauling-Corey-Branson alpha helix. HI Cellular component: Membrane; Transmembrane helix. HI Domain: Transmembrane; Transmembrane helix. CA Domain. // ID Transport. AC KW-0813 DE Protein involved in the transport of a molecule (metabolite, protein, DE etc), a ion or an electron across cell membranes, inside the cell or DE in a tissue fluid. HI Biological process: Transport. CA Biological process. // ID Transposable element. AC KW-0814 DE Protein encoded by a transposable element, or transposon, a mobile DNA DE segment that can replicate and insert a copy at another site within DE the genome. Simple transposons only contains genes needed for DE insertion. More complex types also carry genes with functions DE unrelated to insertion, e.g. genes for resistance to antibiotics or DE heavy metals. SY Transposon. HI Technical term: Transposable element. CA Technical term. // ID Transposition. AC KW-0815 DE Protein involved in the movement of a specific DNA sequence DE - generally known as a transposable element or transposon - to another DE location within the genome by replication of the sequence and DE insertion of the copy at its target site, at random or at some DE specific site. Proteins necessary for the transposition, such as the DE enzyme transposase, are usually encoded by the transposable element DE itself. GO GO:0032196; transposition HI Biological process: Transposition. CA Biological process. // ID Tricarboxylic acid cycle. AC KW-0816 DE Protein involved in the tricarboxylic acid cycle, a series of DE metabolic reactions in aerobic cellular respiration, which occurs in DE the mitochondria of animals and plants and in which acetyl-CoA, formed DE from pyruvate produced during glycolysis, is completely oxidized to DE CO2 via the interconversion of various carboxylic acids. It results in DE the reduction of NAD and FAD to NADH and FADH2, whose reducing power DE is then used indirectly in the synthesis of ATP by oxidative DE phosphorylation. The TCA cycle also provides intermediates for many DE other biosynthetic processes. SY Citric acid cycle; Krebs cycle; TCA cycle. GO GO:0006099; tricarboxylic acid cycle HI Biological process: Tricarboxylic acid cycle. CA Biological process. // ID Trimethoprim resistance. AC KW-0817 DE Protein that confers, on bacteria or other microorganisms, the ability DE to withstand the antibacterial agent trimethroprim that inhibits DE dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR), an enzyme required for de novo glycine DE and purine synthesis. GO GO:0046677; response to antibiotic HI Biological process: Antibiotic resistance; Trimethoprim resistance. CA Biological process. // ID Triplet repeat expansion. AC KW-0818 DE Protein encoded by a gene which has a triplet repeat expansion, i.e. DE the increase of triplet (trinucleotide) repeats within the gene DE sequence. The length of such repeats is frequently polymorphic, and DE there is often a correlation between repeat length and disease DE severity. HI Coding sequence diversity: Triplet repeat expansion. CA Coding sequence diversity. // ID tRNA processing. AC KW-0819 DE Protein involved in the processing of the primary tRNA transcript to DE yield a functional tRNA. Transcription of tRNA genes results in a DE large precursor molecule which may even contain sequences for several DE tRNA molecules. This primary transcript is subsequently processed by DE cleavage and by modification of the appropriate bases. SY Transfer RNA processing; tRNA biosynthesis. GO GO:0008033; tRNA processing HI Biological process: tRNA processing. CA Biological process. // ID tRNA-binding. AC KW-0820 DE Protein which binds transfer RNA, for example some ribosomal proteins DE or some aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases. SY Transfer RNA binding. GO GO:0000049; tRNA binding HI Molecular function: RNA-binding; tRNA-binding. CA Molecular function. // ID Trophozoite. AC KW-1138 DE Protein expressed in the trophozoite stage, a motile replicating and DE disease-causing stage of in the life cycle of some sporozoan DE parasites. HI Developmental stage: Trophozoite. CA Developmental stage. // ID Trypanosomiasis. AC KW-0821 DE Protein involved in trypanosomiasis, a human or animal disease caused DE by Trypanosoma, a genus of parasitic flagellate protozoa. Such DE diseases include African sleeping sickness, Nagana and American DE Chagas' disease. HI Disease: Trypanosomiasis. CA Disease. // ID Tryptophan biosynthesis. AC KW-0822 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of the aromatic amino acid DE tryptophan (Trp) in bacteria, fungi and plants from chorismate. Trp is DE needed to synthesize proteins and as a precursor to niacin, serotonin DE and melatonin. GO GO:0000162; tryptophan biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Amino-acid biosynthesis; Aromatic amino acid biosynthesis; Tryptophan biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Tryptophan catabolism. AC KW-0823 DE Protein involved in the degradation of the aromatic amino acid DE tryptophan (Trp). GO GO:0006569; tryptophan catabolic process HI Biological process: Tryptophan catabolism. CA Biological process. // ID TTQ. AC KW-0824 DE Protein which contains at least one tryptophan tryptophylquinone (TTQ) DE cross-link modification. TTQ, the cofactor of methylamine DE dehydrogenase (MADH), is formed by oxidation of the indole ring of a DE tryptophan to form tryptophylquinone followed by covalent cross- DE linking with another tryptophan residue. MADH converts primary amines DE to their corresponding aldehydes plus ammonia. During the catalytic DE cycle, TTQ mediates electron transfer from the substrate to a copper DE protein, amicyanin. These electrons are transferred to the respiratory DE chain via a C-type cytochrome. SY Tryptophan tryptophylquinone. HI PTM: TTQ. CA PTM. // ID Tumor antigen. AC KW-0825 DE Protein on the surfaces of tumor cells detected by cell-mediated DE immunity. Different categories of tumor antigens which induce DE cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses in vitro and in vivo, have been DE identified. These are, namely, "cancer testis" (CT) antigens expressed DE in different tumours and normal testis, melanocyte differentiation DE antigens, point mutations of normal genes, self antigens that are DE overexpressed in malignant tissues and viral antigens. SY Cancer antigen. HI Molecular function: Tumor antigen. CA Molecular function. // ID Tumor suppressor. AC KW-0043 DE Protein that suppresses tumorigenesis. Tumor suppressors generally DE function as negative regulators of cell cycle progression or cell DE proliferation. They may act to enforce cell cycle arrest in response DE to specific signals, such as DNA damage, thereby allowing DNA repair DE to occur prior to DNA replication. Tumor suppressors that act in this DE way include TP53 and its downstream effector CDKN1A/p21. They may also DE act to induce programmed cell death (apoptosis) in response to DE specific developmental signals or under circumstances where DNA repair DE cannot be completed. Tumor suppressors that act in this way include DE PTEN and BAX. SY Anti-oncogene; Antitumor. HI Disease: Tumor suppressor. CA Disease. // ID Tungsten. AC KW-0826 DE Protein which binds at least one tungsten atom, or protein whose DE function is tungsten-dependent. Tungsten is a metallic element, DE chemical symbol W. HI Ligand: Tungsten. WW https://www.webelements.com/tungsten/ CA Ligand. // ID Two-component regulatory system. AC KW-0902 DE Protein involved in a system responding to environmental changes DE characterized usually by a sensor kinase in the cell membrane that DE phosphorylates itself in response to a signal and a response regulator DE to which the phosphoryl group is transferred. The responder is DE typically a DNA-binding protein that regulates transcription. Several DE of these systems are quite complex, involving many proteins in a DE signaling cascade or contributing to several responses simultaneously. DE They are involved in a variety processes such as chemotaxis, DE osmoregulation, magnesium transport, pH tolerance, sporulation, or DE response of virulent species to host cell's environments. SY Phosphorelay system; Phospho-relay system; SY Two-component sensory transduction system; SY Two-component signal transduction system; Two-component system. GO GO:0000160; phosphorelay signal transduction system HI Biological process: Two-component regulatory system. CA Biological process. // ID Tyrosine biosynthesis. AC KW-0827 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of the aromatic amino acid tyrosine. DE In microorganisms and plants, tyrosine is synthesized from chorismate DE via a simple pathway using prephenate as an intermediate. In rat, this DE nonessential amino acid is produced by hydroxylating the essential DE amino acid phenylalanine. GO GO:0006571; tyrosine biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Amino-acid biosynthesis; Aromatic amino acid biosynthesis; Tyrosine biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Tyrosine catabolism. AC KW-0828 DE Protein involved in the degradation of the aromatic amino acid DE tyrosine. In mammals, tyrosine degradation is catalyzed by a series of DE 5 enzymatic reactions which yield acetoacetate (ketogenic) and the DE Krebs cycle intermediate fumarate (glucogenic). GO GO:0006572; tyrosine catabolic process HI Biological process: Tyrosine catabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Tyrosine-protein kinase. AC KW-0829 DE Enzyme which catalyzes the transfer of the terminal phosphate of ATP DE to a specific tyrosine residue on its target protein. Many of these DE kinases play significant roles in development and cell division. DE Tyrosine-protein kinases can be divided into two subfamilies: receptor DE tyrosine kinases, which have an intracellular tyrosine kinase domain, DE a transmembrane domain and an extracellular ligand-binding domain; and DE non-receptor (cytoplasmic) tyrosine kinases, which are soluble, DE cytoplasmic kinases. GO GO:0004713; protein tyrosine kinase activity HI Molecular function: Transferase; Kinase; Tyrosine-protein kinase. CA Molecular function. // ID Ubiquinone. AC KW-0830 DE Protein which interacts with ubiquinone. This fat soluble benzoquinone DE has a long isoprenoid side chain, which varies in length depending on DE the species. For example, S.cerevisiae has CoQ-6, E.coli has CoQ-8, DE rat and R.capsulatus have CoQ-9 and S.pombe, G.suboxydans and humans DE have CoQ-10. Ubiquinone is a carrier of hydrogen atoms (protons plus DE electrons) and functions as an ubiquitous coenzyme in redox reactions, DE where it is first reduced to the enzyme-bound intermediate radical DE semiquinone and in a second reduction to ubiquinol (Dihydroquinone; DE CoQH2). Ubiquinone is not tightly bound or covalently linked to a DE protein complex but is very mobile. SY Coenzyme Q; CoQ. HI Ligand: Ubiquinone. CA Ligand. // ID Ubiquinone biosynthesis. AC KW-0831 DE Protein involved in the synthesis of ubiquinone which involves the DE conversion of chorismate into 4-hydroxy-benzoate, to which is added DE six to ten isoprene units to form polyprenyl phenol. The addition of a DE further oxygen atom at C3, followed by the transfer of three methyl DE groups from S-adenosine methionine gives rise to ubiquinol, which is DE further reduced to ubiquinone (6-polyprenyl-2,3-dimethoxy-5-methyl- DE 1,4-benzoquinone). SY Coenzyme Q biosynthesis; CoQ biosynthesis. GO GO:0006744; ubiquinone biosynthetic process HI Biological process: Ubiquinone biosynthesis. CA Biological process. // ID Ubl conjugation. AC KW-0832 DE Protein which is posttranslationally modified by the attachment of at DE least one ubiquitin-like modifier protein, such as ubiquitin, SUMO, DE APG12, URM1 or RUB1. Ubiquitin, for example, is linked through a DE isopeptide bond between its C-terminus and the epsilon group of a DE lysine residue present on either another ubiquitin-like modifier DE protein or a target protein. SY Sumoylation; Ubiquitination; Ubiquitin conjugation; SY Ubiquitin-like modifier conjugation; Ubiquitinylation. HI PTM: Ubl conjugation. CA PTM. // ID Ubl conjugation pathway. AC KW-0833 DE Protein involved in ubiquitin-like modifier processing, activation, DE conjugation or deconjugation such as Ubl-activating enzymes (E1s), DE Ubl-conjugating enzymes (E2s), Ubl-protein ligases (E3s), some thiol DE proteases (Ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolases (UCH), Ubiquitin- DE specific processing proteases (UBP) and ubiquitin-like proteases) and DE the ubiquitin-like modifier proteins. Besides signaling proteolysis, DE ubiquitination for example can be a signal for trafficking, kinase DE activation and other nonproteolytic fates. SY Ubiquitin conjugation pathway; SY Ubiquitin-like modifier conjugation pathway. HI Biological process: Ubl conjugation pathway. CA Biological process. // ID Unfolded protein response. AC KW-0834 DE Protein involved in the unfolded protein response. An accumulation of DE unfolded proteins in the ER lumen triggers a stress response, DE resulting in the transcriptional induction in the nucleus of a set of DE genes, whose products are involved in protein folding, assembly and DE modification as well as in phospholipid biosynthesis. The unfolded DE protein response (UPR) is the intracellular pathway that mediates DE signaling from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to the nucleus. UPR is DE also tightly linked to ER-associated protein degradation (ERAD). UPR DE is a ubiquitous mechanism observed in all eukaryotes from humans to DE yeast. SY ER stress pathway; ER stress response; UPR. GO GO:0006986; response to unfolded protein HI Biological process: Unfolded protein response. CA Biological process. // ID Urea cycle. AC KW-0835 DE Protein involved in the urea cycle. This is a metabolic pathway in DE which ammonia, produced during amino acid degradation, is converted to DE urea in the liver, through a series of reactions that are distributed DE between the mitochondrial matrix and the cytosol. SY Krebs-Henseleit cycle. GO GO:0000050; urea cycle HI Biological process: Urea cycle. CA Biological process. // ID Usher syndrome. AC KW-0836 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Usher syndrome, an autosomal DE recessive disorder characterized by sensorineural hearing loss and DE retinitis pigmentosa leading to visual impairment. There are three DE clinical subtypes: Usher syndrome type 1 (USH1), characterized by DE congenital profound deafness, constant vestibular dysfunction, and DE prepubertal onset of retinitis pigmentosa; Usher syndrome type 2 DE (USH2), associated with moderate to severe hearing loss, normal DE vestibular function, and onset of retinitis pigmentosa during the DE second decade of life; and Usher syndrome type 3 (USH3), characterized DE by progressive hearing loss, variable vestibular function, and adult DE onset retinitis pigmentosa. SY Sensorineural deafness with retinitis pigmentosa; Usher's syndrome. HI Disease: Deafness; Usher syndrome. CA Disease. // ID Vacuole. AC KW-0926 DE Protein related to the vacuole of a cell. The precise form and DE function of vacuoles may vary between phyla. Plant vacuoles are among DE the best characterized. They are generally large fluid-filled DE compartments in the cytoplasm, bounded by a membrane called the DE tonoplast; individual vacuoles can fuse to form larger species. DE Examples include the lytic vacuole, the storage vacuole and the DE lutoid. One important function of plant vacuoles is the maintenance of DE hydrostatic pressure. Other eukaryotes employ vacuoles for a variety DE of purposes, including storage (as in the yeast lysosome/vacuole), DE secretion and phagocytosis. In Protozoa, contractile vacuoles can be DE used to discharge water from the cytoplasm to the external DE environment. GO GO:0005773; vacuole HI Cellular component: Vacuole. CA Cellular component. // ID Vanadium. AC KW-0837 DE Protein whose function is vanadium-dependent. Vanadium is a transition DE metal, chemical symbol V. HI Ligand: Vanadium. WW https://www.webelements.com/vanadium/ CA Ligand. // ID Vasoactive. AC KW-0838 DE Protein which is vasoactive, i.e. has a constricting or dilating DE effect on the caliber of blood vessels. GO GO:0097746; blood vessel diameter maintenance HI Molecular function: Vasoactive. CA Molecular function. // ID Vasoconstrictor. AC KW-0839 DE Protein which constricts the caliber of blood vessels. GO GO:0042310; vasoconstriction HI Molecular function: Vasoactive; Vasoconstrictor. CA Molecular function. // ID Vasodilator. AC KW-0840 DE Protein which dilates the caliber of blood vessels. GO GO:0042311; vasodilation HI Molecular function: Vasoactive; Vasodilator. CA Molecular function. // ID Viral attachment to host adhesion receptor. AC KW-1233 DE Virion surface protein implicated in the initial binding to a specific DE host adhesion molecule. Adhesion receptors can be for example DE proteoglycans, sialic acids or a protein receptor. This initial DE attachment is not sufficient for triggering virus entry into host DE cell. In prokaryotic viruses, the primary attachment is called DE reversible adsorption. GO GO:0098671; adhesion receptor-mediated virion attachment to host cell HI Cellular component: Virion; Viral attachment to host adhesion receptor. HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral attachment to host cell; Viral attachment to host adhesion receptor. HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Viral attachment to host cell; Viral attachment to host adhesion receptor. CA Biological process. // ID Viral attachment to host cell. AC KW-1161 DE Viral surface protein implicated in the binding to specific host DE surface molecule(s). This binding can lead to virion entry into the DE host cell, it can trigger signaling pathways, or it can allow the DE virion to be carried by the host cell to a specific organ. SY Virion attachment to host cell surface. GO GO:0019062; virion attachment to host cell HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral attachment to host cell. HI Cellular component: Virion; Viral attachment to host cell. HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Viral attachment to host cell. CA Biological process. // ID Viral attachment to host cell flagellum. AC KW-1240 DE Virion protein involved in the primary attachment to host flagellar DE receptor. This attachment allows the prokaryotic virus to move along DE the host flagellum to find its entry receptor for viral genome DE penetration. Some prokaryotic viruses such as bacteriophages Chi or DE PV22 specifically interact with their host's flagellum, move toward DE the base of the flagellum to come in contact with the host cytoplasmic DE membrane and deliver the viral genome into the host cytoplasm. GO GO:0098931; virion attachment to host cell flagellum HI Cellular component: Virion; Viral attachment to host cell flagellum. HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral attachment to host cell; Viral attachment to host cell flagellum. HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Viral attachment to host cell; Viral attachment to host cell flagellum. CA Biological process. // ID Viral attachment to host cell pilus. AC KW-1175 DE Virion protein involved in the interaction with bacterial pili, which DE are retractile filaments that protrude from bacteria with 2 membranes DE (Gram-negative bacteria). Binding to the pilus is followed by DE retraction of the pilus, which translocates the bound virion to the DE bacterial surface and allows subsequent viral genome penetration into DE host cytoplasm. Bacteriophages M13, f1, fd, R17, Qbeta, Pf1, Pf3, DE phiKMV or phi6 for example utilize the host cell pilus as an DE attachment structure. GO GO:0039666; virion attachment to host cell pilus HI Cellular component: Virion; Viral attachment to host cell pilus. HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral attachment to host cell; Viral attachment to host cell pilus. HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Viral attachment to host cell; Viral attachment to host cell pilus. CA Biological process. // ID Viral attachment to host entry receptor. AC KW-1234 DE Virion surface protein implicated in the binding to a secondary DE specific host surface molecule(s), which triggers the internalization DE of viral genome and possibly other viral components into the host DE cell. In prokaryotic viruses, the attachment to a host entry receptor DE is called irreversible adsorption. GO GO:0098670; entry receptor-mediated virion attachment to host cell HI Cellular component: Virion; Viral attachment to host entry receptor. HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral attachment to host cell; Viral attachment to host entry receptor. HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Viral attachment to host cell; Viral attachment to host entry receptor. CA Biological process. // ID Viral baseplate protein. AC KW-1226 DE Viral protein part of the virion base plate of tailed prokaryotic DE viruses such as Caudovirales. The baseplate is a multiprotein DE component at the end of the tail and to which fibers of tailed phages DE may be attached. Sometimes referred to as the tail tip or tip DE structure in Siphoviridae. GO GO:0098025; virus tail, baseplate HI Cellular component: Virion; Viral tail protein; Viral baseplate protein. CA Cellular component. // ID Viral budding. AC KW-1198 DE Viral protein involved in the budding of a viral particle through a DE cellular membrane into the extracellular space or into a cellular DE compartment. GO GO:0046755; viral budding HI Biological process: Viral release from host cell; Viral budding. CA Biological process. // ID Viral budding via the host ESCRT complexes. AC KW-1187 DE Viral protein which recruits the cellular ESCRT (Endosomal Sorting DE Complex Required for Transport) to mediate host-assisted viral DE budding. Specific motifs in enveloped viruses' proteins called late DE assembly domains (L-domains) are responsible for recruiting the ESCRT DE machinery directly or via ESCRT-associated proteins like PDCD6IP. GO GO:0039702; viral budding via host ESCRT complex HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral budding via the host ESCRT complexes. HI Biological process: Viral release from host cell; Viral budding; Viral budding via the host ESCRT complexes. CA Biological process. // ID Viral capsid assembly. AC KW-0118 DE Viral protein involved in the assembly of the capsid. In most cases DE virion assembly is spontaneous, but viruses like adenoviruses, DE herpesviruses, microviruses and tailed bacteriophages need the help of DE scaffolding proteins to assemble their capsid. Maturation steps that DE remove the scaffolding proteins and induce structural changes in the DE assembled capsid are also often part of the assembly process. SY Viral procapsid assembly. GO GO:0019069; viral capsid assembly HI Biological process: Viral release from host cell; Viral capsid assembly. CA Biological process. // ID Viral capsid maturation. AC KW-1273 DE Viral protein involved in the refolding and structural rearrangements DE of the procapsid shell that give rise to the more stable mature capsid DE structure. These maturation events occur during the intracellular DE capsid assembly process. In many cases, procapsid maturation is DE initiated by the activation of a viral protease. Most bacterial DE viruses as well as Herpesviruses assemble as a procapsid that mature DE through a massive conformational change of the surface shell. SY Viral procapsid maturation. GO GO:0046797; viral procapsid maturation HI Biological process: Viral release from host cell; Viral capsid assembly; Viral capsid maturation. CA Biological process. // ID Viral contractile tail ejection system. AC KW-1242 DE Viral protein that constitutes the contractile ejection system carried DE by some tailed prokaryotic viruses such as the Myoviridae. This DE structure is able to penetrate the host cell envelope, to deliver the DE viral genome, and possibly some specific proteins, into the cell DE cytoplasm. A contractile ejection system is composed at least of the DE contractile sheath, the internal noncontractile tube, the baseplate DE and the terminator complex. Sheath contraction drives the rigid DE internal tube through the host cell envelope. Proteins of the ejection DE apparatus can play an active or a structural role in ejection. SY Viral genome injection via long contractile tail. GO GO:0099000; viral genome ejection through host cell envelope, contractile tail mechanism HI Cellular component: Virion; Viral contractile tail ejection system. HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Viral penetration into host cytoplasm; Viral genome ejection through host cell envelope; Viral contractile tail ejection system. HI Molecular function: Viral contractile tail ejection system. CA Molecular function. // ID Viral DNA replication. AC KW-1194 DE Viral protein involved in the synthesis of multiple copies of the DE viral DNA genome. The replicated genomes provide support for further DE viral transcription or are assembled into progeny virions. GO GO:0039693; viral DNA genome replication HI Biological process: DNA replication; Viral DNA replication. HI Biological process: Viral DNA replication. CA Biological process. // ID Viral envelope protein. AC KW-0261 DE Protein of the viral envelope, a lipoprotein membrane which forms the DE outermost layer of the virion in certain viruses. GO GO:0019031; viral envelope HI Cellular component: Virion; Viral envelope protein. CA Cellular component. // ID Viral exotoxin. AC KW-1255 DE Virally encoded toxin that acts as a host virulence factor against DE another organism. Viral exotoxins are mostly expressed from integrated DE viral genomes. Bacterium host, bacterial populations, and the encoding DE virus/provirus probably benefit from the expression of such exotoxins. DE Although prokaryotic viruses can kill their host if they switch to the DE lytic cycle, provirus encoding exotoxins (e.g. shiga toxin, diphtheria DE toxin) are often retained for the sake of bacterial utility. HI Molecular function: Toxin; Viral exotoxin. HI Biological process: Virulence; Modulation of host virulence by virus; Viral exotoxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Viral extrusion. AC KW-1249 DE Viral protein involved in the extrusion of viral particles from the DE host prokaryotic cell. Extrusion is a concerted mechanism of assembly DE and secretion used by filamentous phages to release mature viral DE particles without inducing host cell lysis. GO GO:0099045; viral extrusion HI Biological process: Viral release from host cell; Viral extrusion. CA Biological process. // ID Viral genome circularization. AC KW-1253 DE Viral protein that is involved in or facilitates the conversion of a DE linear double stranded DNA viral genome into a circular form, either DE by homologous recombination between redundant ends or by association DE of complementary single stranded ends (sticky ends). Circular genomes DE can support rolling circle replication and, for many viruses, genome DE circularization is also necessary for latency. GO GO:0099009; viral genome circularization HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Viral genome circularization. CA Biological process. // ID Viral genome ejection through host cell envelope. AC KW-1171 DE Viral protein that constitutes the ejection system carried by some DE prokaryotic viruses. These structures are able to penetrate the host DE cell envelope in order to deliver the viral genome, and possibly also DE some specific proteins, into the cell cytoplasm. SY Viral genome ejection through host membranes. GO GO:0039678; viral genome ejection through host cell envelope HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Viral penetration into host cytoplasm; Viral genome ejection through host cell envelope. CA Biological process. // ID Viral genome excision. AC KW-1250 DE Viral protein involved in latent provirus DNA excision from the host DE genome following induction. Bacteriophage lambda for example expresses DE an excisionase that manages excision of the viral genome from the host DE genome. GO GO:0032359; provirus excision HI Biological process: Viral genome excision. CA Biological process. // ID Viral genome integration. AC KW-1179 DE Viral protein involved in the integration of a virus genome into the DE host DNA. Integrated viral DNA is referred to as a provirus in the DE case of retroviruses or prophage in the case of prokaryotic viruses. DE The integrated viral genome does not necessarily make new DNA copies DE of itself while integrated into a host genome. Instead, it can remain DE latent and be passively replicated along with the host genome and DE passed on to the original cell's offspring; all descendants of the DE infected cell will also bear it in their genomes. The host's DE environmental conditions changes can however reactivate the virus DE leading to viral transcription and production of new infectious DE viruses (productive infection). Integration is a crucial step in DE replication of retroviruses, as well as some phages. Integration is DE not part of the viral replication cycle of phycodnaviruses, adeno- DE associated virus type 2, and human herpesvirus 6A genome, but can DE occasionally occur. GO GO:0044826; viral genome integration into host DNA GO GO:0075713; establishment of integrated proviral latency HI Biological process: DNA integration; Viral genome integration. HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Viral genome integration. CA Biological process. // ID Viral genome packaging. AC KW-0231 DE Protein involved in actively packaging the replicated viral genome DE into a protective shell or envelope. Such packaging proteins are DE present for example in adenoviruses, herpesviruses and tailed DE bacteriophages. In bacteriophages, the packaging proteins complex is DE involved in recognizing and selecting a neo-synthesized viral genome DE in order to translocate it into a pre-assembled empty procapsid. DNA DE cleavage is sometimes coupled to genome packaging as well as DE maturation steps that induce structural changes in the assembled DE capsid. GO GO:0019072; viral genome packaging HI Biological process: Viral release from host cell; Viral genome packaging. CA Biological process. // ID Viral immunoevasion. AC KW-0899 DE Viral protein involved in evading host innate and adaptive immune DE responses, allowing optimized viral replication, propagation, or DE persistence in the host. The protein allows viruses to avoid/escape DE immune detection or neutralize/inactivate the host immune defenses to DE ensure virus survival within its host. The innate immune system is a DE non-specific defense system found in all cellular organisms. In DE metazoans and plants, it includes the intracellular pattern DE recognition receptors (PRRs) that detect pathogen-associated molecular DE patterns (PAMPs). In plants and invertebrates, it includes the RNA DE interference (RNAi) system. Plants also have effector-triggered DE immunity (ETI). In metazoans, it includes the cell-dependent DE mechanisms (e.g. phagocytes) or secreted factors. Bacteria and archaea DE have an innate immune system relying on various systems (e.g. the DE restriction-modification system, Pycsar). The adaptive (or acquired) DE immune system is a specific defense. In vertebrates, it is mediated by DE T and B lymphocytes expressing specific receptors. Bacteria and DE archaea have adaptive immunity, the CRISPR-Cas system. SY Immunoevasin; Viral host defense evasion; Viral immune evasion. GO GO:0019049; mitigation of host antiviral defense response HI Biological process: Host-virus interaction; Viral immunoevasion. CA Biological process. // ID Viral ion channel. AC KW-1182 DE Small transmembrane protein that homo-oligomerizes to form a viral ion DE channel usually expressed in the viral envelope and host cell DE membranes. These channels affect membrane permeability to ions and DE play an important role in facilitating virus entry, assembly and DE release, as well as modulating the ion homeostasis of host cells. DE Viral ion channels are not necessarily required for the production of DE infectious virions, although their expression usually significantly DE increases growth. During influenza A virus entry for example, the M2 DE proton channel allows protons from the acidic endosome to enter the DE enveloped virion, initiating pH-dependent uncoating of the genome. In DE certain influenza A subtypes, M2 also equilibrates the intraluminal pH DE of the trans-Golgi network with the cytoplasm, preventing premature DE conformational changes in the viral fusion protein during budding. SY Viroporin. GO GO:0005216; monoatomic ion channel activity GO GO:0033644; host cell membrane GO GO:0039707; pore formation by virus in membrane of host cell GO GO:0051259; protein complex oligomerization HI Biological process: Transport; Ion transport; Viral ion channel. HI Molecular function: Ion channel; Viral ion channel. CA Molecular function. // ID Viral latency. AC KW-1251 DE Viral protein expressed primarily to establish, maintain or terminate DE latency, the part of the viral life cycle during which a virus lies DE dormant (latent) within a cell. This part of the virus life cycle is DE called the lysogenic part in prokaryotic viruses. During latency, the DE viral genome can either exist as a provirus integrated in the host DE genome (proviral latency) or as a linear or circular plasmid in the DE host cell (episomal latency). The virus does not replicate, but is DE passively duplicated when the host divides. In eukaryotes for example, DE HHV-1 and HHV-3 establish episomal latency in neurons. HIV is DE integrated as a provirus in the genome of resting CD4-positive T DE cells, allowing the virus to persist for years. Following changes in DE the environmental conditions of the host, reactivation of the virus DE can occur leading to viral transcription and production of new DE infectious viruses. SY Viral lysogeny. GO GO:0019042; viral latency HI Biological process: Viral latency. CA Biological process. // ID Viral latency initiation and maintenance. AC KW-1276 DE Viral protein expressed primarily to establish and maintain latency, DE the part of the viral life cycle during which a virus lies dormant DE (latent) within a cell. This part of the virus life cycle is called DE the lysogenic part in prokaryotic viruses. During latency, the viral DE genome can either exist as a provirus integrated in the host genome DE (proviral latency) or as a linear or circular plasmid in the host cell DE (episomal latency). The virus does not replicate, but is passively DE duplicated when the host divides. HI Biological process: Viral latency; Viral latency initiation and maintenance. CA Biological process. // ID Viral long flexible tail ejection system. AC KW-1243 DE Viral protein that constitutes the noncontractile ejection system DE carried by some long-tailed prokaryotic viruses such as the DE Siphoviridae. This ejection system is composed at least of a DE noncontractile tube and a tail tip which is able to penetrate the host DE cell envelope to deliver the viral genome, and possibly some specific DE proteins, into the cell cytoplasm. Proteins of the ejection apparatus DE can play an active or a structural role in ejection. SY Viral genome injection via long noncontractile tail. GO GO:0099001; viral genome ejection through host cell envelope, long flexible tail mechanism HI Cellular component: Virion; Viral long flexible tail ejection system. HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Viral penetration into host cytoplasm; Viral genome ejection through host cell envelope; Viral long flexible tail ejection system. HI Molecular function: Viral long flexible tail ejection system. CA Molecular function. // ID Viral matrix protein. AC KW-0468 DE Protein that organises and maintains virion structure. It usually DE interacts directly with cellular membranes and is involved in the DE budding process. In some enveloped RNA viruses, it acts as a bridge DE between virion membrane and nucleocapsid. GO GO:0039660; structural constituent of virion HI Cellular component: Virion; Viral matrix protein. CA Cellular component. // ID Viral movement protein. AC KW-0916 DE Plant viral protein that enables the viral nucleic acid to move DE between adjacent plant cells via the plasmodesmata. GO GO:0046740; transport of virus in host, cell to cell HI Biological process: Transport; Viral movement protein. HI Molecular function: Viral movement protein. CA Molecular function. // ID Viral nucleoprotein. AC KW-0543 DE Viral protein conjugated with nucleic acid (DNA or RNA). SY Viral nucleocapsid protein. GO GO:0019013; viral nucleocapsid HI Cellular component: Virion; Viral nucleoprotein. HI Molecular function: Viral nucleoprotein. CA Molecular function. // ID Viral occlusion body. AC KW-0842 DE Protein component of the viral occlusion body, a crystalline protein DE matrix which surrounds the nucleocapsids of some insect viruses DE (baculoviridae, entomopoxvirinae, cypovirus). Viral occlusion bodies DE are produced either in the nucleus (baculoviridae) or in the cytoplasm DE (poxvirinae and cypovirus) of the infected cells and confer resistance DE to adverse environmental conditions on viruses. They are made from DE polyhedrin (nucleopolyhedrovirus, cypovirus), granulin (granulovirus), DE spheroidin and spherulin (entomopox-virinae) and are dissolved by the DE alkaline pH of the insect gut, thus resulting in the release of DE infectious virus particles. GO GO:0039679; viral occlusion body HI Cellular component: Viral occlusion body. CA Cellular component. // ID Viral penetration into host cytoplasm. AC KW-1162 DE Viral protein involved in the entry of the entire virion, some of its DE contents or at least its genetic material into the host cell DE cytoplasm. Entry is achieved through pore formation, membrane fusion, DE pilus retraction, ejection, permeabilization and/or endocytosis DE mechanisms. Penetration reactions occur mainly in five locations: the DE cell membrane, early and late endosomes, caveosomes, and the ER. In DE prokaryotes, membrane fusion, pore formation through a puncturing DE device, ejection, pilus retraction or permeabilization occur at the DE plasma membrane, as well as at the outer membrane in prokaryotes with DE 2 membranes. SY Translocation of virus into host cell; SY Virion penetration into host cell. GO GO:0046718; viral entry into host cell HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Viral penetration into host cytoplasm. CA Biological process. // ID Viral penetration into host cytoplasm via pilus retraction. AC KW-1241 DE Viral protein involved in the entry of the virion into the host DE cytoplasm via the host pili, which are retractile filaments that DE protrude from bacteria with 2 membranes (Gram-negative bacteria). DE Entry of bound prokaryotic viruses such as filamentous viruses is DE achieved through the retraction of host pilus and translocation of the DE virion through the basis of the pilus to reach the host cytoplasm. DE Examples of bacteriophages which utilize the host cell pilus to DE penetrate into host cytoplasm are bacteriophages M13, f1, fd, R17. GO GO:0039667; viral entry into host cell via pilus retraction HI Cellular component: Virion; Viral penetration into host cytoplasm via pilus retraction. HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Viral penetration into host cytoplasm; Viral penetration into host cytoplasm via pilus retraction. CA Biological process. // ID Viral penetration into host nucleus. AC KW-1163 DE Viral protein necessary for the penetration of the viral genome into DE the host cell nucleus either via active nuclear transport through DE nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) or DNA injection through the nuclear DE membrane. Nuclear membrane permeabilization might also be possible. DE Viruses can also enter the nucleus during mitosis when the nuclear DE membrane temporarily disintegrates (e.g. most retroviruses). All these DE strategies to cross the nuclear envelope barrier are associated with DE various levels of capsid disassembly, since virus can pass intact DE (e.g. papovaviruses) or, in the case of injection, only the viral DE genome enters the nucleus (e.g. herpesviruses). SY Entry of virus into host nucleus; Virion entry into host nucleus; SY Virion penetration into host nucleus. GO GO:0075732; viral penetration into host nucleus HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Viral penetration into host nucleus. CA Biological process. // ID Viral penetration via lysis of host organellar membrane. AC KW-1174 DE Viral membrane-lytic protein, usually associated with the viral capsid DE or released through partial programmed disassembly of the capsid, that DE induces major rupture of the bilayer integrity of host endosomal, DE lysosomal, or caveosomal membrane to allow viral escape and DE penetration into the cytoplasm. These viral lytic proteins may need to DE be activated, mostly through endosomal acidic pH or receptor binding DE to display membrane lytic activity. Viruses such as human adenoviruses DE group C and D lyse the host endosomal membrane to penetrate into the DE host cytoplasm. GO GO:0039664; lysis of host organelle involved in viral entry into host cell HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Viral penetration into host cytoplasm; Viral penetration via lysis of host organellar membrane. CA Biological process. // ID Viral penetration via permeabilization of host membrane. AC KW-1173 DE Viral membrane-penetration protein, usually associated with the viral DE capsid or released through partial programmed disassembly of the DE capsid, that locally permeabilizes the bilayer of a host membrane to DE allow virion penetration into the cytoplasm. Viral membrane- DE penetration proteins often need to be activated, mostly through DE endosomal acidic pH or receptor binding to display their membrane DE penetrating activity. Non-enveloped viruses such as parvovirus, human DE reovirus, BDV, BTV, rotavirus, papillomavirus, Flock house virus DE permeabilize the host endosomal membrane to penetrate the host DE cytoplasm. SY Viral penetration via host membrane disruption by virus; SY Viral penetration via perforation of host membrane by virus. GO GO:0039665; permeabilization of host organelle membrane involved in viral entry into host cell GO GO:0099008; viral entry via permeabilization of inner membrane HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Viral penetration into host cytoplasm; Viral penetration via permeabilization of host membrane. CA Biological process. // ID Viral primary envelope fusion with host outer nuclear membrane. AC KW-1181 DE Viral protein implicated in fusion of the herpesviruses' primary DE envelope with the host outer nuclear membrane during egress. During DE egress, herpesviruses acquire a transitory, primary envelope as they DE bud at the inner nuclear membrane and gain access to the perinuclear DE space. This membrane is lost by fusing with the outer nuclear membrane DE during nuclear exit. GO GO:0039700; fusion of viral membrane with host outer nuclear membrane HI Biological process: Viral release from host cell; Viral primary envelope fusion with host outer nuclear membrane. CA Biological process. // ID Viral reactivation from latency. AC KW-1272 DE Viral protein involved in virus reactivation from latency to DE replication, thereby putting an end to the latency phase in the viral DE life cycle. Changes in the environmental conditions of the host often DE reactivate the virus leading to viral transcription and production of DE new infectious viruses (productive infection). SY Release from viral latency. GO GO:0019046; release from viral latency HI Biological process: Viral latency; Viral reactivation from latency. HI Biological process: Viral reactivation from latency. CA Biological process. // ID Viral receptor tropism switching. AC KW-1264 DE A switch in the host range specificity occurs in some bacterial DE viruses through massive sequence variation of their host-binding DE receptor. Sequence variation can be induced by site-specific inversion DE of a DNA segment in their genome or by a diversity-generating DE retroelement. Inversion is catalyzed by a specific recombinase called DE invertase and consists of a reciprocal recombination event within two DE inverted repeats present in the viral genome that leads to the DE alternate expression of two different sets of genes involved in tail DE fiber biosynthesis. Mu-like viruses and P1-like viruses, for example, DE encode a recombinase responsible for the switch in the targeted host. DE Diversity-generating retroelements (DGR) like in BPP-1 virus also DE allow tropism switching by creating a mutant copy of an invariant DNA DE template repeat by transcription and reverse transcription and DE introducing this mutated sequence in the receptor-binding protein DE sequence. GO GO:0098678; viral tropism switching HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Viral receptor tropism switching. CA Biological process. // ID Viral release from host cell. AC KW-1188 DE Viral protein involved in the release of virions from an infected cell DE to allow cell-to-cell spread of virus. Once assembled at the DE replication site, viral particles can be released by budding, DE exocytosis, extrusion or host cell lysis. Some viruses also mediate DE direct transport of their viral genome to adjacent cells thanks to DE movement proteins. GO GO:0019076; viral release from host cell HI Biological process: Viral release from host cell. CA Biological process. // ID Viral RNA replication. AC KW-0693 DE Viral protein involved in the SYnthesis of multiple copies of the DE viral RNA genome. The replicated genomes provide support for further DE viral transcription or are assembled into progeny virions. GO GO:0039694; viral RNA genome replication HI Biological process: Viral RNA replication. CA Biological process. // ID Viral short tail ejection system. AC KW-1244 DE Virion protein that constitutes the noncontractile ejection system DE carried by some short-tailed prokaryotic viruses such as some DE Podoviridae. This ejection system is composed at least of the tail DE tube and ejection proteins. Upon receptor binding, proteins located DE inside the capsid (head) rearrange to extend the tail tube, creating a DE channel spanning the periplasmic space. This hydrophilic channel DE directs the viral genome, and possibly some specific proteins, into DE the cytoplasm and protects it from periplasmic nucleases. Once the DE viral genome is in the host cytoplasm, the channel collapses and DE seals. Bacteriophage T7 for example expresses ejection proteins that DE partition into the host outer and cytoplasmic membranes and allow DE transport of viral DNA across the host envelope. Proteins of the DE ejection apparatus can play an active or a structural role in DE ejection. SY Viral genome injection via short noncontractile tail. GO GO:0099002; viral genome ejection through host cell envelope, short tail mechanism HI Cellular component: Virion; Viral short tail ejection system. HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Viral penetration into host cytoplasm; Viral genome ejection through host cell envelope; Viral short tail ejection system. HI Molecular function: Viral short tail ejection system. CA Molecular function. // ID Viral tail assembly. AC KW-1245 DE Viral protein involved in tail assembly. Some tailed bacteriophages DE need chaperones that help with the assembly of their tail. GO GO:0098003; viral tail assembly HI Biological process: Viral release from host cell; Viral tail assembly. CA Biological process. // ID Viral tail fiber assembly. AC KW-1246 DE Viral protein involved in tail fibers or spike assembly. Some tailed DE bacteriophages need chaperones that help with the assembly of their DE fibers or spikes. T4 for example encodes a general tail fiber DE chaperone that is needed for the correct assembly of the short and DE long tail fiber proteins. GO GO:0098004; virus tail fiber assembly HI Biological process: Viral release from host cell; Viral tail assembly; Viral tail fiber assembly. CA Biological process. // ID Viral tail fiber protein. AC KW-1230 DE Viral fibrous protein part of the virion fiber, which is a thin long DE rod like structure, unique or multiple, appended to the tail of DE prokaryotic viruses and used for attachment to the host cell. Shorter DE appendages are called tail spikes (e.g. Podoviridae) or whiskers. GO GO:0098024; virus tail, fiber HI Cellular component: Virion; Viral tail protein; Viral tail fiber protein. CA Cellular component. // ID Viral tail protein. AC KW-1227 DE Viral protein part of the virion tail of prokaryotic viruses such as DE Caudovirales. The tail is usually composed of a tube, a tail sheath DE when contractile, a base plate or tip and tail long or short fibers. GO GO:0098015; virus tail HI Cellular component: Virion; Viral tail protein. CA Cellular component. // ID Viral tail sheath protein. AC KW-1229 DE Viral protein part of the virion tail sheath of prokaryotic viruses. DE The tail sheath is an external contractile envelope wrapping the tail DE tube in some viruses (e.g. Myoviridae). GO GO:0098027; virus tail, sheath HI Cellular component: Virion; Viral tail protein; Viral tail sheath protein. HI Molecular function: Viral contractile tail ejection system; Viral tail sheath protein. CA Cellular component. // ID Viral tail tube protein. AC KW-1228 DE Viral protein part of the virion tail tube of prokaryotic viruses such DE as Caudovirales. The tail tube is the channel for DNA ejection into DE the host cytoplasm and can be wrapped in an external contractile DE envelope in some viruses (e.g. Myoviridae). Also called tail shaft in DE some Siphoviridae. GO GO:0098026; virus tail, tube HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Viral penetration into host cytoplasm; Viral genome ejection through host cell envelope; Viral tail tube protein. HI Cellular component: Virion; Viral tail protein; Viral tail tube protein. CA Cellular component. // ID Viral transcription. AC KW-1195 DE Viral Protein involved in the synthesis of messenger RNAs. The process DE can occur in the host cell nucleus or cytoplasm, and the genomic DE template can be viral DNA or RNA, single- or double-stranded. GO GO:0019083; viral transcription HI Biological process: Viral transcription. CA Biological process. // ID Virion. AC KW-0946 DE Viral protein detected in the virion. GO GO:0044423; virion component HI Cellular component: Virion. CA Cellular component. // ID Virion maturation. AC KW-0917 DE Viral protein involved in the maturation of the immature virion into DE the mature virion, once the virion has been released from the host DE cell. Maturation usually involves proteolysis events and changes in DE the folding of the virion proteins. SY Viral procapsid maturation. GO GO:0019075; virus maturation HI Biological process: Viral release from host cell; Virion maturation. CA Biological process. // ID Virion tegument. AC KW-0920 DE Viral structural protein of the tegument, a protein structure that DE resides between the capsid and envelope of herpesviruses and which DE appears amorphous in electron micrographs. GO GO:0019033; viral tegument HI Cellular component: Virion; Virion tegument. CA Cellular component. // ID Virulence. AC KW-0843 DE Protein involved in virulence, the degree of pathogenicity within a DE group or species of microorganisms or viruses, as indicated by case DE fatality rates and/or the ability of the organism to invade the DE tissues of the host. In some cases, the virulence factor can be borne DE by another organism in symbiosis with the one whose virulence is DE increased. Some prokaryotic viruses/proviruses for example bear DE exotoxins that increase the virulence of their host. A well-known DE bacterial exotoxin encoded by a provirus is the diphtheria toxin. HI Biological process: Virulence. CA Biological process. // ID Virus endocytosis by host. AC KW-1164 DE Viral protein involved in virus internalization by the host cell via DE endocytosis. Endocytosis can occur via: clathrin-mediated endocytosis, DE caveolin-mediated endocytosis or clathrin- and caveolae-independent DE endocytosis. GO GO:0075509; endocytosis involved in viral entry into host cell HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell; Viral penetration into host cytoplasm; Virus endocytosis by host. CA Biological process. // ID Virus entry into host cell. AC KW-1160 DE Viral protein involved in the virion entry into a host cell. Entry is DE a multistep process that mostly requires binding to the target cell, DE penetration into the host cell cytoplasm, intracellular transport of DE viral components and genome release to the replication site of the DE virus. GO GO:0046718; viral entry into host cell HI Biological process: Virus entry into host cell. CA Biological process. // ID Vision. AC KW-0844 DE Protein involved in vision, the special sense by which objects in the DE external environment are perceived by the light they give off or DE reflect, which stimulates the photoreceptors in the retina. GO GO:0007601; visual perception HI Biological process: Sensory transduction; Vision. CA Biological process. // ID Vitamin A. AC KW-0845 DE Protein which interacts with any form of the fat-soluble vitamin A. DE There are three active forms of vitamin A: retinol, retinal DE (retinaldehyde) and retinoic acid, which are all derived from the DE plant beta-carotene (provitamin A). Vitamin A is essential to night DE vision and is also required for epithelium differentiation, bone DE development, reproduction and the immune response. Symptoms associated DE with a deficiency of vitamin A are night blindness, changes in the DE eyes, poor bone development, weak tooth enamel and dry skin. SY Retinol. GO GO:0016918; retinal binding HI Ligand: Vitamin A. CA Ligand. // ID Vitamin C. AC KW-0847 DE Protein which contains at least one vitamin C as cofactor. This water- DE soluble vitamin is a reducing agent in a number of reactions. As DE cofactor, it is required for the hydroxylation of proline residues in DE collagen, and in many other metabolic reactions such as in the DE catabolism of tyrosine and the synthesis of bile acids. Deficiency in DE vitamin C leads to the disease scurvy. SY Ascorbic acid. GO GO:0031418; L-ascorbic acid binding HI Ligand: Vitamin C. CA Ligand. // ID Vitamin D. AC KW-0848 DE Protein which interacts with any form of the fat-soluble vitamin D or DE protein whose transcription is regulated by the biologically active DE form of vitamin D, i.e. 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D3 (1,25 DE dihydroxycholecalciferol) also termed calcitriol. Active calcitriol is DE derived from ergosterol (produced in plants) and 7-dehydrocholesterol DE (produced in the skin). Ergocalciferol (vitamin D2) and DE cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) are formed by UV irradiation of DE ergosterol and 7-dehydrocholesterol, respectively, and processed by DE the same enzymatic pathway in the body to D2-calcitriol and D3- DE calcitriol. Deficiency in vitamin D leads to the disease rickets, in DE children, and osteomalacia, in adults. GO GO:0005499; vitamin D binding HI Ligand: Vitamin D. CA Ligand. // ID VLDL. AC KW-0850 DE Protein present in particles of Very Low-Density Lipoproteins or DE protein which interacts with them. VLDL are composed of 50% DE triacylglycerols, 12% cholesteryl esters, 7% free cholesterol, 18% DE phospholipids, and 10% proteins including apoB-100, apoC-I, apoC-II, DE apoC-III and apoE. Excess fatty acids or carbohydrate in the diet can DE be converted into triacylglycerols in the liver and packaged into DE VLDL. These lipoproteins are transported by the blood to muscle and DE adipose tissue, where activation of lipoprotein lipase by apoC-II DE causes the release of free fatty acids from the triacylglycerols of DE the VLDL. GO GO:0034361; very-low-density lipoprotein particle HI Cellular component: VLDL. CA Cellular component. // ID Voltage-gated calcium channel impairing toxin. AC KW-1218 DE Protein which interferes with the function of voltage-gated calcium DE channels (Cav) which are membrane proteins forming a channel in a DE biological membrane selectively permeable to calcium ions and open in DE response to a change in membrane potential. They are mostly found DE spider and cone snail venoms. SY Cav channel inhibitor. HI Molecular function: Toxin; Ion channel impairing toxin; Calcium channel impairing toxin; Voltage-gated calcium channel impairing toxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Voltage-gated channel. AC KW-0851 DE Protein which is a component of a voltage-gated channel. Voltage-gated DE ion channels are responsible for the electrical activity in a variety DE of cell types. They probably exist in all life forms. SY Voltage-gated cation channel; Voltage-gated ion channel. GO GO:0034220; monoatomic ion transmembrane transport GO GO:0034702; monoatomic ion channel complex HI Biological process: Transport; Ion transport; Voltage-gated channel. HI Molecular function: Ion channel; Voltage-gated channel. CA Molecular function. // ID Voltage-gated chloride channel impairing toxin. AC KW-0870 DE Protein which interferes with the function of voltage-gated chloride DE channels (ClC) which are membrane proteins forming a channel in a DE biological membrane selectively permeable to chloride ions, and open DE in response to a change in membrane potential. They are found in DE venoms from scorpions. GO GO:0017081; chloride channel regulator activity HI Molecular function: Toxin; Ion channel impairing toxin; Chloride channel impairing toxin; Voltage-gated chloride channel impairing toxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Voltage-gated potassium channel impairing toxin. AC KW-1220 DE Protein which interferes with the function of voltage-gated potassium DE channels (Kv) which are membrane proteins forming a channel in a DE biological membrane selectively permeable to potassium ions and open DE in response to a change in membrane potential. They are mostly found DE in scorpion and spider venoms. HI Molecular function: Toxin; Ion channel impairing toxin; Potassium channel impairing toxin; Voltage-gated potassium channel impairing toxin. CA Molecular function. // ID Voltage-gated sodium channel impairing toxin. AC KW-0738 DE Protein which interferes with the function of voltage-gated sodium DE channels (Nav) which are membrane proteins forming a channel in a DE biological membrane selectively permeable to sodium ions, and open in DE response to a change in membrane potential. They are found in various DE venoms from snakes, scorpions and spiders. GO GO:0017080; sodium channel regulator activity HI Molecular function: Toxin; Ion channel impairing toxin; Voltage-gated sodium channel impairing toxin. CA Molecular function. // ID von Willebrand disease. AC KW-0852 DE Protein which, if defective, causes von Willebrand disease, a DE hemorrhagic disorder in which the von Willebrand factor is either DE quantitatively or qualitatively abnormal. Usually inherited as an DE autosomal dominant trait though rare kindreds are autosomal recessive. DE Symptoms vary depending on severity and disease type but may include DE prolonged bleeding time, deficiency of factor VIII and impaired DE platelet adhesion. HI Biological process: Hemostasis; Blood coagulation; von Willebrand disease. HI Disease: von Willebrand disease. CA Disease. // ID Waardenburg syndrome. AC KW-0897 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Waardenburg syndrome, an autosomal DE dominant disorder, characterized by sensorineural deafness associated DE with pigmentary changes of the irides, hair and skin; each of these DE features may be uni- or bilateral. On the basis of the presence or DE absence of dystopia canthorum (lateral displacement of the inner DE corner of the eye), Waardenburg syndrome type 1 (WS1) and type 2 (WS2) DE are distinguished. Additionally, the association of WS1 with limb DE anomalies defines Waardenburg syndrome type 3 (WS3), while the DE association of Waardenburg features with Hirschsprung disease defines DE Waardenburg syndrome type 4 (WS4). SY WS. HI Disease: Deafness; Waardenburg syndrome. CA Disease. // ID WD repeat. AC KW-0853 DE Protein which contains at least one WD repeat, a conserved domain of DE about 40 amino acids in length. Most copies contain a central DE conserved Trp-Asp motif. SY Trp-Asp repeat; WD-40 repeat. HI Domain: WD repeat. CA Domain. // ID Whooping cough. AC KW-0855 DE Protein involved in the induction of whooping cough, a respiratory DE infection caused by the very small Gram-negative aerobic coccobacillus DE Bordetella pertussis. It is characterized by paroxysmal coughing often DE ending in a characteristic inspiratory gasp (whoop). The bacterium is DE a pathogen for humans and possibly for higher primates. HI Disease: Whooping cough. CA Disease. // ID Williams-Beuren syndrome. AC KW-0856 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS), a DE contiguous gene deletion syndrome involving genes from chromosome band DE 7q11.23. It is a rare developmental autosomal dominant disorder DE characterized by cardiovascular abnormalities, elfin face, mental and DE statural deficiency, characteristic dental malformation, and infantile DE hypercalcemia. SY WBS. HI Disease: Williams-Beuren syndrome. CA Disease. // ID Wnt signaling pathway. AC KW-0879 DE Protein involved in the Wnt signaling pathway. Wnts are a large family DE of cysteine-rich secreted glycoproteins that control development in DE organisms ranging from nematodes to mammals. Wnt genes are defined by DE sequence homology to the original members of the family, Wnt1 in the DE mouse and wingless (wg) in Drosophila. Wnt signaling is a very complex DE pathway which includes numerous ligands, receptors and transcriptional DE effectors. There is a well-characterized canonical pathway as well as DE diverse, less-characterized noncanonical pathways. Several components DE of Wnt signaling are implicated in the genesis of human cancer. SY Wnt signaling cascade; Wnt signalling pathway; SY Wnt signal transduction pathway. GO GO:0016055; Wnt signaling pathway HI Biological process: Wnt signaling pathway. CA Biological process. // ID Xeroderma pigmentosum. AC KW-0857 DE Protein which, if defective, causes xeroderma pigmentosum, an DE autosomal recessive disease characterized by extreme photosensitivity DE to ultraviolet light and the development of multiple skin cancers. HI Disease: Xeroderma pigmentosum. CA Disease. // ID Xylan degradation. AC KW-0858 DE Protein involved in the hydrolysis of xylan to xylose and other DE sugars. Xylan is a major component of hemicellulose, which is the DE second most common plant material in nature. The structures of xylans DE are complex, and several enzymes are involved in their breakdown. DE Xylan degrading enzymes are produced by a variety of microorganisms. SY Xylan hydrolysis. GO GO:0045493; xylan catabolic process HI Biological process: Carbohydrate metabolism; Polysaccharide degradation; Xylan degradation. CA Biological process. // ID Xylose metabolism. AC KW-0859 DE Protein involved in the biochemical reactions with the 5-carbon sugars DE xylose or xylulose. Xylose is the second most abundant sugar found in DE hardwood and agricultural residues. GO GO:0042732; D-xylose metabolic process HI Biological process: Carbohydrate metabolism; Xylose metabolism. CA Biological process. // ID Zellweger syndrome. AC KW-0861 DE Protein which, if defective, causes Zellweger syndrome, a fatal DE peroxisome biogenesis disorder associated with severe abnormalities in DE the brain, liver and kidney and death soon after birth. This disease DE is characterized by the presence of empty peroxisomes in the cells due DE to impaired transport of peroxisomal proteins into the peroxisomes. SY Cerebrohepatorenal syndrome; Cerebro-hepato-renal syndrome; SY CHR syndrome; ZWS. HI Disease: Peroxisome biogenesis disorder; Zellweger syndrome. CA Disease. // ID Zinc. AC KW-0862 DE Protein which binds at least one zinc atom, or protein whose function DE is zinc-dependent. Zinc is a metallic trace element, chemical symbol DE Zn. HI Ligand: Zinc. WW https://www.webelements.com/zinc/ CA Ligand. // ID Zinc transport. AC KW-0864 DE Protein involved in the transport of zinc. GO GO:0006829; zinc ion transport HI Biological process: Transport; Ion transport; Zinc transport. HI Ligand: Zinc; Zinc transport. CA Biological process. // ID Zinc-finger. AC KW-0863 DE Protein which contains at least one zinc finger. A small, functional, DE independently folded domain that requires coordination of one or more DE zinc ions to stabilize its structure. Zinc fingers vary widely in DE structure, as well as in function, which ranges from DNA or RNA DE binding to protein-protein interactions and membrane association. HI Ligand: Metal-binding; Zinc-finger. HI Ligand: Zinc; Zinc-finger. HI Domain: Zinc-finger. CA Domain. // ID Zymogen. AC KW-0865 DE The enzymatically inactive precursor of mostly proteolytic enzymes. SY Proenzyme. HI PTM: Zymogen. CA PTM. // ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyrighted by the UniProt Consortium, see https://www.uniprot.org/terms Distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License -----------------------------------------------------------------------