GO term |
GO name |
GO namespace |
GO def |
GO:0044089 | positive regulation of cellular component biogenesis | biological_process | Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of cellular component biogenesis, a process that results in the biosynthesis of constituent macromolecules, assembly, and arrangement of constituent parts of a cellular component. [GOC:jl] |
GO:0007346 | regulation of mitotic cell cycle | biological_process | Any process that modulates the rate or extent of progress through the mitotic cell cycle. [GOC:dph, GOC:go_curators, GOC:tb] |
GO:0006950 | response to stress | biological_process | Any process that results in a change in state or activity of a cell or an organism (in terms of movement, secretion, enzyme production, gene expression, etc.) as a result of a disturbance in organismal or cellular homeostasis, usually, but not necessarily, exogenous (e.g. temperature, humidity, ionizing radiation). [GOC:mah] |
GO:0009987 | cellular process | biological_process | Any process that is carried out at the cellular level, but not necessarily restricted to a single cell. For example, cell communication occurs among more than one cell, but occurs at the cellular level. [GOC:go_curators, GOC:isa_complete] |
GO:0032501 | multicellular organismal process | biological_process | Any biological process, occurring at the level of a multicellular organism, pertinent to its function. [GOC:curators, GOC:dph, GOC:isa_complete, GOC:tb] |
GO:0031326 | regulation of cellular biosynthetic process | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of substances, carried out by individual cells. [GOC:mah] |
GO:0051707 | response to other organism | biological_process | Any process that results in a change in state or activity of a cell or an organism (in terms of movement, secretion, enzyme production, gene expression, etc.) as a result of a stimulus from another living organism. [GOC:ai] |
GO:1901342 | regulation of vasculature development | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of vasculature development. [GOC:TermGenie] |
GO:0042981 | regulation of apoptotic process | biological_process | Any process that modulates the occurrence or rate of cell death by apoptotic process. [GOC:jl, GOC:mtg_apoptosis] |
GO:0009893 | positive regulation of metabolic process | biological_process | Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways within a cell or an organism. [GOC:go_curators] |
GO:0008104 | protein localization | biological_process | Any process in which a protein is transported to, or maintained in, a specific location. [GOC:ai] |
GO:0031325 | positive regulation of cellular metabolic process | biological_process | Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways by which individual cells transform chemical substances. [GOC:mah] |
GO:1901363 | heterocyclic compound binding | molecular_function | Binding to heterocyclic compound. [GOC:TermGenie] |
GO:0044238 | primary metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways involving those compounds which are formed as a part of the normal anabolic and catabolic processes. These processes take place in most, if not all, cells of the organism. [GOC:go_curators, http://www.metacyc.org] |
GO:0051173 | positive regulation of nitrogen compound metabolic process | biological_process | Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways involving nitrogen or nitrogenous compounds. [GOC:ai, GOC:tb] |
GO:0005615 | extracellular space | cellular_component | That part of a multicellular organism outside the cells proper, usually taken to be outside the plasma membranes, and occupied by fluid. [ISBN:0198547684] |
GO:0046486 | glycerolipid metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways involving glycerolipids, any lipid with a glycerol backbone. Diacylglycerol and phosphatidate are key lipid intermediates of glycerolipid biosynthesis. [GOC:ai, PMID:8906569] |
GO:0045787 | positive regulation of cell cycle | biological_process | Any process that activates or increases the rate or extent of progression through the cell cycle. [GOC:go_curators] |
GO:1901605 | alpha-amino acid metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways involving an alpha-amino acid. [GOC:TermGenie] |
GO:0010564 | regulation of cell cycle process | biological_process | Any process that modulates a cellular process that is involved in the progression of biochemical and morphological phases and events that occur in a cell during successive cell replication or nuclear replication events. [GOC:dph, GOC:tb] |
GO:0009416 | response to light stimulus | biological_process | Any process that results in a change in state or activity of a cell or an organism (in terms of movement, secretion, enzyme production, gene expression, etc.) as a result of a light stimulus, electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths classified as infrared, visible or ultraviolet light. [GOC:go_curators, ISBN:0582227089] |
GO:0001666 | response to hypoxia | biological_process | Any process that results in a change in state or activity of a cell or an organism (in terms of movement, secretion, enzyme production, gene expression, etc.) as a result of a stimulus indicating lowered oxygen tension. Hypoxia, defined as a decline in O2 levels below normoxic levels of 20.8 - 20.95%, results in metabolic adaptation at both the cellular and organismal level. [GOC:hjd] |
GO:0007416 | synapse assembly | biological_process | The aggregation, arrangement and bonding together of a set of components to form a synapse. This process ends when the synapse is mature (functional). [GOC:mah] |
GO:0050793 | regulation of developmental process | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of development, the biological process whose specific outcome is the progression of a multicellular organism over time from an initial condition (e.g. a zygote, or a young adult) to a later condition (e.g. a multicellular animal or an aged adult). [GOC:go_curators] |
GO:0044281 | small molecule metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways involving small molecules, any low molecular weight, monomeric, non-encoded molecule. [GOC:curators, GOC:pde, GOC:vw] |
GO:0031323 | regulation of cellular metabolic process | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways by which individual cells transform chemical substances. [GOC:mah] |
GO:0042391 | regulation of membrane potential | biological_process | Any process that modulates the establishment or extent of a membrane potential, the electric potential existing across any membrane arising from charges in the membrane itself and from the charges present in the media on either side of the membrane. [GOC:jl, GOC:mtg_cardio, GOC:tb, ISBN:0198506732] |
GO:1902749 | regulation of cell cycle G2/M phase transition | biological_process | Any signalling pathway that modulates the activity of a cell cycle cyclin-dependent protein kinase to modulate the switch from G2 phase to M phase of the cell cycle. [GO_REF:0000058, GOC:jl, GOC:TermGenie] |
GO:0003729 | mRNA binding | molecular_function | Binding to messenger RNA (mRNA), an intermediate molecule between DNA and protein. mRNA includes UTR and coding sequences, but does not contain introns. [GOC:kmv, GOC:pr, SO:0000234] |
GO:0050794 | regulation of cellular process | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of a cellular process, any of those that are carried out at the cellular level, but are not necessarily restricted to a single cell. For example, cell communication occurs among more than one cell, but occurs at the cellular level. [GOC:go_curators] |
GO:0048522 | positive regulation of cellular process | biological_process | Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of a cellular process, any of those that are carried out at the cellular level, but are not necessarily restricted to a single cell. For example, cell communication occurs among more than one cell, but occurs at the cellular level. [GOC:jid] |
GO:0051726 | regulation of cell cycle | biological_process | Any process that modulates the rate or extent of progression through the cell cycle. [GOC:ai, GOC:dph, GOC:tb] |
GO:1902679 | negative regulation of RNA biosynthetic process | biological_process | Any process that stops, prevents or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of RNA biosynthetic process. [GO:jl, GO_REF:0000058, GOC:TermGenie] |
GO:0006793 | phosphorus metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways involving the nonmetallic element phosphorus or compounds that contain phosphorus, usually in the form of a phosphate group (PO4). [GOC:ai] |
GO:0008202 | steroid metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways involving steroids, compounds with a 1,2,cyclopentanoperhydrophenanthrene nucleus. [ISBN:0198547684] |
GO:0009791 | post-embryonic development | biological_process | The process whose specific outcome is the progression of the organism over time, from the completion of embryonic development to the mature structure. See embryonic development. [GOC:go_curators] |
GO:0046471 | phosphatidylglycerol metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways involving phosphatidylglycerols, any of a class of phospholipids in which the phosphatidyl group is esterified to the hydroxyl group of glycerol. They are important constituents of cell membranes. [ISBN:0198506732] |
GO:0010389 | regulation of G2/M transition of mitotic cell cycle | biological_process | Any signalling pathway that modulates the activity of a cell cycle cyclin-dependent protein kinase to modulate the switch from G2 phase to M phase of the mitotic cell cycle. [GOC:mtg_cell_cycle, PMID:17329565] |
GO:0043436 | oxoacid metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways involving any oxoacid; an oxoacid is a compound which contains oxygen, at least one other element, and at least one hydrogen bound to oxygen, and which produces a conjugate base by loss of positive hydrogen ion(s) (hydrons). [Wikipedia:Oxyacid] |
GO:0003723 | RNA binding | molecular_function | Binding to an RNA molecule or a portion thereof. [GOC:jl, GOC:mah] |
GO:0023051 | regulation of signaling | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of a signaling process. [GOC:mtg_signal] |
GO:0051271 | negative regulation of cellular component movement | biological_process | Any process that stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of the movement of a cellular component. [GOC:ai, GOC:dph, GOC:jl] |
GO:0008152 | metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways, including anabolism and catabolism, by which living organisms transform chemical substances. Metabolic processes typically transform small molecules, but also include macromolecular processes such as DNA repair and replication, and protein synthesis and degradation. [GOC:go_curators, ISBN:0198547684] |
GO:0031507 | heterochromatin assembly | biological_process | An epigenetic gene silencing mechanism that involves the assembly of chromatin into heterochromatin, resulting in a chromatin conformation refractory to transcription. This process starts with heterochromatin nucleation, its spreading, and ends with heterochromatin boundary formation. [GOC:mah, PMID:25192661, PMID:33827924] |
GO:0044057 | regulation of system process | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of a system process, a multicellular organismal process carried out by any of the organs or tissues in an organ system. [GOC:jl] |
GO:0031327 | negative regulation of cellular biosynthetic process | biological_process | Any process that stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of substances, carried out by individual cells. [GOC:mah] |
GO:0003714 | transcription corepressor activity | molecular_function | A transcription coregulator activity that represses or decreases the transcription of specific gene sets via binding to a DNA-bound DNA-binding transcription factor, either on its own or as part of a complex. Corepressors often act by altering chromatin structure and modifications. For example, one class of transcription corepressors modifies chromatin structure through covalent modification of histones. A second class remodels the conformation of chromatin in an ATP-dependent fashion. A third class modulates interactions of DNA-bound DNA-binding transcription factors with other transcription coregulators. [GOC:txnOH-2018, PMID:10213677, PMID:16858867] |
GO:0032273 | positive regulation of protein polymerization | biological_process | Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of the process of creating protein polymers. [GOC:mah] |
GO:0051239 | regulation of multicellular organismal process | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of a multicellular organismal process, the processes pertinent to the function of a multicellular organism above the cellular level; includes the integrated processes of tissues and organs. [GOC:ai, GOC:dph, GOC:tb] |
GO:0040029 | regulation of gene expression, epigenetic | biological_process | A process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of gene expression by remodelling of chromatin by either modifying the chromatin fiber, the nucleosomal histones, or the DNA. Once established, this regulation may be maintained over many cell divisions. It can also be heritable in the absence of the instigating signal. [PMID:10521337, PMID:11498582, PMID:22243696, PMID:34414474] |
GO:1902903 | regulation of supramolecular fiber organization | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of supramolecular fiber organization. [GO_REF:0000058, GOC:PARL, GOC:rl, GOC:TermGenie, PMID:23921388] |
GO:0060255 | regulation of macromolecule metabolic process | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways involving macromolecules, any molecule of high relative molecular mass, the structure of which essentially comprises the multiple repetition of units derived, actually or conceptually, from molecules of low relative molecular mass. [GOC:dph, GOC:tb] |
GO:0006796 | phosphate-containing compound metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways involving the phosphate group, the anion or salt of any phosphoric acid. [GOC:ai] |
GO:0046470 | phosphatidylcholine metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways involving phosphatidylcholines, any of a class of glycerophospholipids in which the phosphatidyl group is esterified to the hydroxyl group of choline. They are important constituents of cell membranes. [ISBN:0198506732] |
GO:1901265 | nucleoside phosphate binding | molecular_function | Binding to nucleoside phosphate. [GOC:TermGenie] |
GO:0051247 | positive regulation of protein metabolic process | biological_process | Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways involving a protein. [GOC:ai] |
GO:0005634 | nucleus | cellular_component | A membrane-bounded organelle of eukaryotic cells in which chromosomes are housed and replicated. In most cells, the nucleus contains all of the cell's chromosomes except the organellar chromosomes, and is the site of RNA synthesis and processing. In some species, or in specialized cell types, RNA metabolism or DNA replication may be absent. [GOC:go_curators] |
GO:2000145 | regulation of cell motility | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of cell motility. [GOC:mah] |
GO:1901615 | organic hydroxy compound metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways involving organic hydroxy compound. [GOC:pr, GOC:TermGenie] |
GO:0010468 | regulation of gene expression | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of gene expression. Gene expression is the process in which a gene's coding sequence is converted into a mature gene product (protein or RNA). [GOC:txnOH-2018] |
GO:1903507 | negative regulation of nucleic acid-templated transcription | biological_process | Any process that stops, prevents or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of nucleic acid-templated transcription. [GO_REF:0000058, GOC:pr, GOC:TermGenie, GOC:txnOH, GOC:vw] |
GO:1901214 | regulation of neuron death | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of neuron death. [GOC:rph, GOC:TermGenie] |
GO:0090068 | positive regulation of cell cycle process | biological_process | Any process that increases the rate, frequency or extent of a cellular process that is involved in the progression of biochemical and morphological phases and events that occur in a cell during successive cell replication or nuclear replication events. [GOC:dph, GOC:tb] |
GO:0031056 | regulation of histone modification | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of the covalent alteration of a histone. [GOC:mah] |
GO:1901564 | organonitrogen compound metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways involving organonitrogen compound. [GOC:pr, GOC:TermGenie] |
GO:0032502 | developmental process | biological_process | A biological process whose specific outcome is the progression of an integrated living unit |
GO:0051172 | negative regulation of nitrogen compound metabolic process | biological_process | Any process that stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways involving nitrogen or nitrogenous compounds. [GOC:ai, GOC:tb] |
GO:0048869 | cellular developmental process | biological_process | A biological process whose specific outcome is the progression of a cell over time from an initial condition to a later condition. [GOC:isa_complete] |
GO:0022603 | regulation of anatomical structure morphogenesis | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of anatomical structure morphogenesis. [GOC:mah] |
GO:0033043 | regulation of organelle organization | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of a process involved in the formation, arrangement of constituent parts, or disassembly of an organelle. [GOC:mah] |
GO:0019233 | sensory perception of pain | biological_process | The series of events required for an organism to receive a painful stimulus, convert it to a molecular signal, and recognize and characterize the signal. Pain is medically defined as the physical sensation of discomfort or distress caused by injury or illness, so can hence be described as a harmful stimulus which signals current (or impending) tissue damage. Pain may come from extremes of temperature, mechanical damage, electricity or from noxious chemical substances. This is a neurological process. [GOC:curators] |
GO:0051246 | regulation of protein metabolic process | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways involving a protein. [GOC:ai] |
GO:0031399 | regulation of protein modification process | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of the covalent alteration of one or more amino acid residues within a protein. [GOC:mah, GOC:tb] |
GO:0051495 | positive regulation of cytoskeleton organization | biological_process | Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of the formation, arrangement of constituent parts, or disassembly of cytoskeletal structures. [GOC:ai] |
GO:0080090 | regulation of primary metabolic process | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways within a cell or an organism involving those compounds formed as a part of the normal anabolic and catabolic processes. These processes take place in most, if not all, cells of the organism. [PMID:19211694] |
GO:0003682 | chromatin binding | molecular_function | Binding to chromatin, the network of fibers of DNA, protein, and sometimes RNA, that make up the chromosomes of the eukaryotic nucleus during interphase. [GOC:jl, ISBN:0198506732, PMID:20404130] |
GO:0050804 | modulation of chemical synaptic transmission | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency or amplitude of synaptic transmission, the process of communication from a neuron to a target (neuron, muscle, or secretory cell) across a synapse. Amplitude, in this case, refers to the change in postsynaptic membrane potential due to a single instance of synaptic transmission. [GOC:ai] |
GO:2000146 | negative regulation of cell motility | biological_process | Any process that stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of cell motility. [GOC:mah] |
GO:0031401 | positive regulation of protein modification process | biological_process | Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of the covalent alteration of one or more amino acid residues within a protein. [GOC:mah, GOC:tb] |
GO:0043066 | negative regulation of apoptotic process | biological_process | Any process that stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of cell death by apoptotic process. [GOC:jl, GOC:mtg_apoptosis] |
GO:0006629 | lipid metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways involving lipids, compounds soluble in an organic solvent but not, or sparingly, in an aqueous solvent. Includes fatty acids; neutral fats, other fatty-acid esters, and soaps; long-chain (fatty) alcohols and waxes; sphingoids and other long-chain bases; glycolipids, phospholipids and sphingolipids; and carotenes, polyprenols, sterols, terpenes and other isoprenoids. [GOC:ma] |
GO:1902905 | positive regulation of supramolecular fiber organization | biological_process | Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of supramolecular fiber organization. [GO_REF:0000058, GOC:PARL, GOC:rl, GOC:TermGenie, PMID:23921388] |
GO:0045944 | positive regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II | biological_process | Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of transcription from an RNA polymerase II promoter. [GOC:go_curators, GOC:txnOH] |
GO:0044262 | cellular carbohydrate metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways involving carbohydrates, any of a group of organic compounds based of the general formula Cx(H2O)y, as carried out by individual cells. [GOC:jl] |
GO:0031334 | positive regulation of protein-containing complex assembly | biological_process | Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of protein complex assembly. [GOC:mah] |
GO:0009314 | response to radiation | biological_process | Any process that results in a change in state or activity of a cell or an organism (in terms of movement, secretion, enzyme production, gene expression, etc.) as a result of an electromagnetic radiation stimulus. Electromagnetic radiation is a propagating wave in space with electric and magnetic components. These components oscillate at right angles to each other and to the direction of propagation. [GOC:jl, Wikipedia:Electromagnetic_radiation] |
GO:0005813 | centrosome | cellular_component | A structure comprised of a core structure (in most organisms, a pair of centrioles) and peripheral material from which a microtubule-based structure, such as a spindle apparatus, is organized. Centrosomes occur close to the nucleus during interphase in many eukaryotic cells, though in animal cells it changes continually during the cell-division cycle. [GOC:mah, ISBN:0198547684] |
GO:0003677 | DNA binding | molecular_function | Any molecular function by which a gene product interacts selectively and non-covalently with DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). [GOC:dph, GOC:jl, GOC:tb, GOC:vw] |
GO:0010605 | negative regulation of macromolecule metabolic process | biological_process | Any process that decreases the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways involving macromolecules, any molecule of high relative molecular mass, the structure of which essentially comprises the multiple repetition of units derived, actually or conceptually, from molecules of low relative molecular mass. [GOC:dph, GOC:tb] |
GO:0045595 | regulation of cell differentiation | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of cell differentiation, the process in which relatively unspecialized cells acquire specialized structural and functional features. [GOC:go_curators] |
GO:0000122 | negative regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II | biological_process | Any process that stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of transcription mediated by RNA polymerase II. [GOC:go_curators, GOC:txnOH] |
GO:0043254 | regulation of protein-containing complex assembly | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of protein complex assembly. [GOC:jl] |
GO:0010558 | negative regulation of macromolecule biosynthetic process | biological_process | Any process that decreases the rate, frequency or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of a macromolecule, any molecule of high relative molecular mass, the structure of which essentially comprises the multiple repetition of units derived, actually or conceptually, from molecules of low relative molecular mass. [GOC:dph, GOC:tb] |
GO:0010629 | negative regulation of gene expression | biological_process | Any process that decreases the frequency, rate or extent of gene expression. Gene expression is the process in which a gene's coding sequence is converted into a mature gene product (protein or RNA). [GOC:txnOH-2018] |
GO:0009605 | response to external stimulus | biological_process | Any process that results in a change in state or activity of a cell or an organism (in terms of movement, secretion, enzyme production, gene expression, etc.) as a result of an external stimulus. [GOC:hb] |
GO:0016358 | dendrite development | biological_process | The process whose specific outcome is the progression of the dendrite over time, from its formation to the mature structure. [GOC:aruk, GOC:bc, GOC:jl, ISBN:0198506732, PMID:22683681] |
GO:0065007 | biological regulation | biological_process | Any process that modulates a measurable attribute of any biological process, quality or function. [GOC:dph, GOC:isa_complete, GOC:mah, GOC:pr, GOC:vw] |
GO:0030334 | regulation of cell migration | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of cell migration. [GOC:go_curators] |
GO:0099177 | regulation of trans-synaptic signaling | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of trans-synaptic signaling. [GOC:dos] |
GO:0006066 | alcohol metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways involving alcohols, any of a class of compounds containing one or more hydroxyl groups attached to a saturated carbon atom. [ISBN:0198506732] |
GO:0006082 | organic acid metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways involving organic acids, any acidic compound containing carbon in covalent linkage. [ISBN:0198506732] |
GO:1901215 | negative regulation of neuron death | biological_process | Any process that stops, prevents or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of neuron death. [GOC:rph, GOC:TermGenie] |
GO:0007052 | mitotic spindle organization | biological_process | A process that is carried out at the cellular level which results in the assembly, arrangement of constituent parts, or disassembly of the microtubule spindle during a mitotic cell cycle. [GOC:go_curators, GOC:mah] |
GO:0003690 | double-stranded DNA binding | molecular_function | Binding to double-stranded DNA. [GOC:elh, GOC:vw] |
GO:0009628 | response to abiotic stimulus | biological_process | Any process that results in a change in state or activity of a cell or an organism (in terms of movement, secretion, enzyme production, gene expression, etc.) as a result of an abiotic (not derived from living organisms) stimulus. [GOC:hb] |
GO:0003008 | system process | biological_process | A multicellular organismal process carried out by any of the organs or tissues in an organ system. An organ system is a regularly interacting or interdependent group of organs or tissues that work together to carry out a biological objective. [GOC:mtg_cardio] |
GO:0044087 | regulation of cellular component biogenesis | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of cellular component biogenesis, a process that results in the biosynthesis of constituent macromolecules, assembly, and arrangement of constituent parts of a cellular component. [GOC:jl] |
GO:0050877 | nervous system process | biological_process | A organ system process carried out by any of the organs or tissues of neurological system. [GOC:ai, GOC:mtg_cardio] |
GO:0051493 | regulation of cytoskeleton organization | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of the formation, arrangement of constituent parts, or disassembly of cytoskeletal structures. [GOC:ai] |
GO:0005488 | binding | molecular_function | The selective, non-covalent, often stoichiometric, interaction of a molecule with one or more specific sites on another molecule. [GOC:ceb, GOC:mah, ISBN:0198506732] |
GO:0030336 | negative regulation of cell migration | biological_process | Any process that stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of cell migration. [GOC:go_curators] |
GO:0048731 | system development | biological_process | The process whose specific outcome is the progression of an organismal system over time, from its formation to the mature structure. A system is a regularly interacting or interdependent group of organs or tissues that work together to carry out a given biological process. [GOC:dph, GOC:jid] |
GO:0048167 | regulation of synaptic plasticity | biological_process | A process that modulates synaptic plasticity, the ability of synapses to change as circumstances require. They may alter function, such as increasing or decreasing their sensitivity, or they may increase or decrease in actual numbers. [GOC:dph, GOC:jid, GOC:tb, PMID:11891290] |
GO:0005975 | carbohydrate metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways involving carbohydrates, any of a group of organic compounds based of the general formula Cx(H2O)y. Includes the formation of carbohydrate derivatives by the addition of a carbohydrate residue to another molecule. [GOC:mah, ISBN:0198506732] |
GO:0000166 | nucleotide binding | molecular_function | Binding to a nucleotide, any compound consisting of a nucleoside that is esterified with (ortho)phosphate or an oligophosphate at any hydroxyl group on the ribose or deoxyribose. [GOC:mah, ISBN:0198547684] |
GO:0051171 | regulation of nitrogen compound metabolic process | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways involving nitrogen or nitrogenous compounds. [GOC:ai, GOC:tb] |
GO:0006644 | phospholipid metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways involving phospholipids, any lipid containing phosphoric acid as a mono- or diester. [ISBN:0198506732] |
GO:0010638 | positive regulation of organelle organization | biological_process | Any process that increases the frequency, rate or extent of a process involved in the formation, arrangement of constituent parts, or disassembly of an organelle. [GOC:dph, GOC:tb] |
GO:0005829 | cytosol | cellular_component | The part of the cytoplasm that does not contain organelles but which does contain other particulate matter, such as protein complexes. [GOC:hjd, GOC:jl] |
GO:0032268 | regulation of cellular protein metabolic process | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways involving a protein, occurring at the level of an individual cell. [GOC:mah] |
GO:0006355 | regulation of transcription, DNA-templated | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of cellular DNA-templated transcription. [GOC:go_curators, GOC:txnOH] |
GO:0006952 | defense response | biological_process | Reactions, triggered in response to the presence of a foreign body or the occurrence of an injury, which result in restriction of damage to the organism attacked or prevention/recovery from the infection caused by the attack. [GOC:go_curators] |
GO:0032886 | regulation of microtubule-based process | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of any cellular process that depends upon or alters the microtubule cytoskeleton. [GOC:mah] |
GO:0032271 | regulation of protein polymerization | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of the process of creating protein polymers. [GOC:mah] |
GO:1901360 | organic cyclic compound metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways involving organic cyclic compound. [GOC:TermGenie] |
GO:0071704 | organic substance metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways involving an organic substance, any molecular entity containing carbon. [GOC:mah] |
GO:2001141 | regulation of RNA biosynthetic process | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of RNA biosynthetic process. [GOC:dph] |
GO:0007610 | behavior | biological_process | The internally coordinated responses (actions or inactions) of animals (individuals or groups) to internal or external stimuli, via a mechanism that involves nervous system activity. [GOC:ems, GOC:jl, ISBN:0395448956, PMID:20160973] |
GO:0023056 | positive regulation of signaling | biological_process | Any process that activates, maintains or increases the frequency, rate or extent of a signaling process. [GOC:mtg_signal] |
GO:0008284 | positive regulation of cell population proliferation | biological_process | Any process that activates or increases the rate or extent of cell proliferation. [GOC:go_curators] |
GO:0045931 | positive regulation of mitotic cell cycle | biological_process | Any process that activates or increases the rate or extent of progression through the mitotic cell cycle. [GOC:dph, GOC:go_curators, GOC:tb] |
GO:0048856 | anatomical structure development | biological_process | The biological process whose specific outcome is the progression of an anatomical structure from an initial condition to its mature state. This process begins with the formation of the structure and ends with the mature structure, whatever form that may be including its natural destruction. An anatomical structure is any biological entity that occupies space and is distinguished from its surroundings. Anatomical structures can be macroscopic such as a carpel, or microscopic such as an acrosome. [GO_REF:0000021] |
GO:0009892 | negative regulation of metabolic process | biological_process | Any process that stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways within a cell or an organism. [GOC:go_curators] |
GO:0040013 | negative regulation of locomotion | biological_process | Any process that stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of locomotion of a cell or organism. [GOC:go_curators] |
GO:0010646 | regulation of cell communication | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of cell communication. Cell communication is the process that mediates interactions between a cell and its surroundings. Encompasses interactions such as signaling or attachment between one cell and another cell, between a cell and an extracellular matrix, or between a cell and any other aspect of its environment. [GOC:dph, GOC:tb] |
GO:0051052 | regulation of DNA metabolic process | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways involving DNA. [GOC:ai] |
GO:0051130 | positive regulation of cellular component organization | biological_process | Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of a process involved in the formation, arrangement of constituent parts, or disassembly of cell structures, including the plasma membrane and any external encapsulating structures such as the cell wall and cell envelope. [GOC:ai] |
GO:0043067 | regulation of programmed cell death | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of programmed cell death, cell death resulting from activation of endogenous cellular processes. [GOC:jl] |
GO:0010941 | regulation of cell death | biological_process | Any process that modulates the rate or frequency of cell death. Cell death is the specific activation or halting of processes within a cell so that its vital functions markedly cease, rather than simply deteriorating gradually over time, which culminates in cell death. [GOC:dph, GOC:tb] |
GO:0051253 | negative regulation of RNA metabolic process | biological_process | Any process that stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways involving RNA. [GOC:ai] |
GO:0048519 | negative regulation of biological process | biological_process | Any process that stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of a biological process. Biological processes are regulated by many means; examples include the control of gene expression, protein modification or interaction with a protein or substrate molecule. [GOC:jid] |
GO:0007600 | sensory perception | biological_process | The series of events required for an organism to receive a sensory stimulus, convert it to a molecular signal, and recognize and characterize the signal. This is a neurological process. [GOC:ai, GOC:dph] |
GO:0006650 | glycerophospholipid metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways involving glycerophospholipids, any derivative of glycerophosphate that contains at least one O-acyl, O-alkyl, or O-alkenyl group attached to the glycerol residue. [ISBN:0198506732] |
GO:0044255 | cellular lipid metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways involving lipids, as carried out by individual cells. [GOC:jl] |
GO:0009890 | negative regulation of biosynthetic process | biological_process | Any process that stops, prevents, or reduces the rate of the chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of substances. [GOC:go_curators] |
GO:0044237 | cellular metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways by which individual cells transform chemical substances. [GOC:go_curators] |
GO:0045892 | negative regulation of transcription, DNA-templated | biological_process | Any process that stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of cellular DNA-templated transcription. [GOC:go_curators, GOC:txnOH] |
GO:0003676 | nucleic acid binding | molecular_function | Binding to a nucleic acid. [GOC:jl] |
GO:0005654 | nucleoplasm | cellular_component | That part of the nuclear content other than the chromosomes or the nucleolus. [GOC:ma, ISBN:0124325653] |
GO:0070507 | regulation of microtubule cytoskeleton organization | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of the formation, arrangement of constituent parts, or disassembly of cytoskeletal structures comprising microtubules and their associated proteins. [GOC:mah] |
GO:0050896 | response to stimulus | biological_process | Any process that results in a change in state or activity of a cell or an organism (in terms of movement, secretion, enzyme production, gene expression, etc.) as a result of a stimulus. The process begins with detection of the stimulus and ends with a change in state or activity or the cell or organism. [GOC:ai, GOC:bf] |
GO:0032270 | positive regulation of cellular protein metabolic process | biological_process | Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways involving a protein, occurring at the level of an individual cell. [GOC:mah] |
GO:0048518 | positive regulation of biological process | biological_process | Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of a biological process. Biological processes are regulated by many means; examples include the control of gene expression, protein modification or interaction with a protein or substrate molecule. [GOC:jid] |
GO:0051241 | negative regulation of multicellular organismal process | biological_process | Any process that stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of an organismal process, the processes pertinent to the function of an organism above the cellular level; includes the integrated processes of tissues and organs. [GOC:ai] |
GO:0016571 | histone methylation | biological_process | The modification of histones by addition of methyl groups. [GOC:ai] |
GO:0040012 | regulation of locomotion | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of locomotion of a cell or organism. [GOC:ems] |
GO:0034641 | cellular nitrogen compound metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways involving various organic and inorganic nitrogenous compounds, as carried out by individual cells. [GOC:mah] |
GO:0019637 | organophosphate metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways involving organophosphates, any phosphate-containing organic compound. [ISBN:0198506732] |
GO:0060548 | negative regulation of cell death | biological_process | Any process that decreases the rate or frequency of cell death. Cell death is the specific activation or halting of processes within a cell so that its vital functions markedly cease, rather than simply deteriorating gradually over time, which culminates in cell death. [GOC:BHF, GOC:dph, GOC:tb] |
GO:0031110 | regulation of microtubule polymerization or depolymerization | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of microtubule polymerization or depolymerization by the addition or removal of tubulin heterodimers from a microtubule. [GOC:mah] |
GO:1901990 | regulation of mitotic cell cycle phase transition | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of mitotic cell cycle phase transition. [GOC:mtg_cell_cycle, GOC:TermGenie, PMID:22841721] |
GO:0006520 | cellular amino acid metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways involving amino acids, carboxylic acids containing one or more amino groups, as carried out by individual cells. [ISBN:0198506732] |
GO:0010647 | positive regulation of cell communication | biological_process | Any process that increases the frequency, rate or extent of cell communication. Cell communication is the process that mediates interactions between a cell and its surroundings. Encompasses interactions such as signaling or attachment between one cell and another cell, between a cell and an extracellular matrix, or between a cell and any other aspect of its environment. [GOC:dph, GOC:tb] |
GO:0019752 | carboxylic acid metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways involving carboxylic acids, any organic acid containing one or more carboxyl (COOH) groups or anions (COO-). [ISBN:0198506732] |
GO:0019219 | regulation of nucleobase-containing compound metabolic process | biological_process | Any cellular process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways involving nucleobases, nucleosides, nucleotides and nucleic acids. [GOC:go_curators] |
GO:0065008 | regulation of biological quality | biological_process | Any process that modulates a qualitative or quantitative trait of a biological quality. A biological quality is a measurable attribute of an organism or part of an organism, such as size, mass, shape, color, etc. [GOC:dph, GOC:isa_complete, GOC:mah, GOC:pr, GOC:vw] |
GO:0043565 | sequence-specific DNA binding | molecular_function | Binding to DNA of a specific nucleotide composition, e.g. GC-rich DNA binding, or with a specific sequence motif or type of DNA e.g. promotor binding or rDNA binding. [GOC:jl] |
GO:0031324 | negative regulation of cellular metabolic process | biological_process | Any process that stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways by which individual cells transform chemical substances. [GOC:mah] |
GO:0010556 | regulation of macromolecule biosynthetic process | biological_process | Any process that modulates the rate, frequency or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of a macromolecule, any molecule of high relative molecular mass, the structure of which essentially comprises the multiple repetition of units derived, actually or conceptually, from molecules of low relative molecular mass. [GOC:dph, GOC:tb] |
GO:1901987 | regulation of cell cycle phase transition | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of cell cycle phase transition. [GOC:mtg_cell_cycle, GOC:TermGenie, PMID:22841721] |
GO:0048523 | negative regulation of cellular process | biological_process | Any process that stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of a cellular process, any of those that are carried out at the cellular level, but are not necessarily restricted to a single cell. For example, cell communication occurs among more than one cell, but occurs at the cellular level. [GOC:jid] |
GO:0009889 | regulation of biosynthetic process | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of substances. [GOC:go_curators] |
GO:0050806 | positive regulation of synaptic transmission | biological_process | Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of synaptic transmission, the process of communication from a neuron to a target (neuron, muscle, or secretory cell) across a synapse. [GOC:ai] |
GO:0005515 | protein binding | molecular_function | Binding to a protein. [GOC:go_curators] |
GO:1903506 | regulation of nucleic acid-templated transcription | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of nucleic acid-templated transcription. [GO_REF:0000058, GOC:pr, GOC:TermGenie, GOC:txnOH, GOC:vw] |
GO:0000792 | heterochromatin | cellular_component | A compact and highly condensed form of chromatin that is refractory to transcription. [PMID:32017156] |
GO:0003700 | DNA-binding transcription factor activity | molecular_function | A transcription regulator activity that modulates transcription of gene sets via selective and non-covalent binding to a specific double-stranded genomic DNA sequence (sometimes referred to as a motif) within a cis-regulatory region. Regulatory regions include promoters (proximal and distal) and enhancers. Genes are transcriptional units, and include bacterial operons. [GOC:txnOH-2018] |
GO:0051128 | regulation of cellular component organization | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of a process involved in the formation, arrangement of constituent parts, or disassembly of cell structures, including the plasma membrane and any external encapsulating structures such as the cell wall and cell envelope. [GOC:ai] |
GO:0032879 | regulation of localization | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of any process in which a cell, a substance, or a cellular entity is transported to, or maintained in, a specific location. [GOC:mah] |
GO:0045935 | positive regulation of nucleobase-containing compound metabolic process | biological_process | Any cellular process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways involving nucleobases, nucleosides, nucleotides and nucleic acids. [GOC:go_curators] |
GO:0036094 | small molecule binding | molecular_function | Binding to a small molecule, any low molecular weight, monomeric, non-encoded molecule. [GOC:curators, GOC:pde, GOC:pm] |
GO:0019222 | regulation of metabolic process | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways within a cell or an organism. [GOC:go_curators] |
GO:0016573 | histone acetylation | biological_process | The modification of a histone by the addition of an acetyl group. [GOC:ai] |
GO:0010604 | positive regulation of macromolecule metabolic process | biological_process | Any process that increases the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways involving macromolecules, any molecule of high relative molecular mass, the structure of which essentially comprises the multiple repetition of units derived, actually or conceptually, from molecules of low relative molecular mass. [GOC:dph, GOC:tb] |
GO:0098794 | postsynapse | cellular_component | The part of a synapse that is part of the post-synaptic cell. [GOC:dos] |
GO:0051252 | regulation of RNA metabolic process | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways involving RNA. [GOC:ai] |
GO:0050789 | regulation of biological process | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of a biological process. Biological processes are regulated by many means; examples include the control of gene expression, protein modification or interaction with a protein or substrate molecule. [GOC:ai, GOC:go_curators] |
GO:0006357 | regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of transcription mediated by RNA polymerase II. [GOC:go_curators, GOC:txnOH] |
GO:0043069 | negative regulation of programmed cell death | biological_process | Any process that stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of programmed cell death, cell death resulting from activation of endogenous cellular processes. [GOC:jl] |
GO:0050890 | cognition | biological_process | The operation of the mind by which an organism becomes aware of objects of thought or perception; it includes the mental activities associated with thinking, learning, and memory. [ISBN:0721619908] |
GO:0045934 | negative regulation of nucleobase-containing compound metabolic process | biological_process | Any cellular process that stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways involving nucleobases, nucleosides, nucleotides and nucleic acids. [GOC:go_curators] |
GO:0045765 | regulation of angiogenesis | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of angiogenesis. [GOC:go_curators] |
GO:0097159 | organic cyclic compound binding | molecular_function | Binding to an organic cyclic compound, any molecular entity that contains carbon arranged in a cyclic molecular structure. [GOC:sjw, PMID:7583672] |
GO:0006807 | nitrogen compound metabolic process | biological_process | The chemical reactions and pathways involving organic or inorganic compounds that contain nitrogen. [GOC:jl, ISBN:0198506732] |
GO:0051270 | regulation of cellular component movement | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of the movement of a cellular component. [GOC:ai, GOC:dph, GOC:jl] |
GO:2000026 | regulation of multicellular organismal development | biological_process | Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of multicellular organismal development. [GOC:obol] |
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