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GOing Forward With the Cardiac Conduction System Using Gene Ontology

Li, Kan Yan Chloe; Cook, Andrew C; Lovering, Ruth C; (2022) GOing Forward With the Cardiac Conduction System Using Gene Ontology. Frontiers in Genetics , 13 , Article 802393. 10.3389/fgene.2022.802393. Green open access

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Abstract

The cardiac conduction system (CCS) comprises critical components responsible for the initiation and coordination of the action potential. Aberrant CCS development can cause conduction abnormalities, including sick sinus syndrome and atrioventricular and bundle branch blocks. Gene Ontology (GO; http://geneontology.org/) is an invaluable global bioinformatics resource which can provide structured, computable knowledge describing the functions of gene products. Many gene products are known be involved in CCS development; however, this information is not comprehensively captured by GO. Our study aimed to describe the specific roles of essential proteins that have been reported in the literature to be involved with development and/or function of the CCS. 14 proteins were prioritised for GO annotation which led to the curation of 15 peer-reviewed primary experimental articles using carefully selected GO terms. 152 descriptive GO annotations, including those describing sinoatrial node and atrioventricular node development were created and submitted to the GO Consortium database. A functional enrichment analysis of the 35 proteins known to have a role in CCS confirmed that this work has improved the in silico interpretation of this CCS dataset. Our contribution to the GO database may help elucidate the key mechanisms involved in CCS disorders as previous annotation projects have focussed predominantly on development of the heart rather than that of the CCS. This work may improve future heart disease investigations applying high-throughput methods such as genome-wide association studies analysis, proteomics and transcriptomics.

Type: Article
Title: GOing Forward With the Cardiac Conduction System Using Gene Ontology
Event: Annual British Heart Foundation Student Conference
Location: Queen Mary University of London (virtual), London, UK
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2022.802393
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.802393
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2022 Chloe Li, Cook and Lovering. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
Keywords: gene ontology (GO), cardiac conduction, heart development, biocuration, annotation
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science > Childrens Cardiovascular Disease
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science > Pre-clinical and Fundamental Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10157766
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