Summary
A user wants specify in trans, i.e. that a species is involved in an enzymatic or binding activity with another copy of the same species
Step-by-Step User Action
- User specifies an existing enzymatic stimulation or binding activity
User specieis that the activity is in trans
- User optionally specifies the evidence for the relationship
As an alternative to modifying an existing relationship, this use case might be viewed as creating a different relationship in the first place, e.g.
- User specifies a species to be the enzymatic stimulator
- User specifies a reaction to be stimulated involving the same species
User specifies that there is a stimulation in trans relationship
- User optionally specifies the evidence for the relationship
Visual Aides
The Kohn notation for enzymatic stimulation in trans is the following:
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This notation can be used to modify the edges for ../NonCovalentBinding or ../EnzymaticStimulation
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An example using this notation for ../EnzymaticStimulation follows:
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In this example, a copy of protein A, catalyzes the phosphorylation of another copy of protein A.
The following example uses intrans for a ../NonCovalentBinding relationship:
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In this example, a copy of protein A, binds a domain 1 to another copy of protein A at domain 2.
Requirements for Cytoscape
Assuming that this can use the same approach that is used for ../ShowInhibition, it could be modeled as a Hyperedge containing node1: C (hyperedge attribute: enzymatic stimulation in trans), node2: A, node3: A
View: Use case for hyperedge view
Importance
This is a fairly common occurance in the models.
Variations
An earlier version of the notation uses small circles instead of the slashes. This earlier notation does not need to be supported.
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Other Examples
Comments
Shared ../MimEditorUseCaseComments
This is a special case of an ../EnzymaticStimulation. It is intended to clarify that more than one copy of a particular protein is involved in the interaction.
This could be modeled in BioPAX as a Catalysis object (e.g. Catalysis object with participants = a Biochemical Reaction object and a enzyme A, Controlled = the Biochemical Reaction object (a reaction in trans as defined in "in trans reactions"cannot communicate that is specifically a covalent phosphorylation reaction, Controller=A, Control-Type = Activation, and Direction = IRREVERSIBLE-LEFT-TO-RIGHT)