Wikidata:Property proposal/facilitates flow of

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facilitates flow of / transports / channel for /enables flow of / carries

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Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Natural science

DescriptionThe cargo/substrate actively transported or passively channeled by a protein.
Data typeItem
Domainitem; preferably instances of or subclasses of protein (Q8054) or protein-containing complex (Q22325163) or group or class of proteins (Q84467700) or protein family (Q417841)
Example 1Cu(+) exporting P-type ATPase;soluble Cu(+) chaperone b0484 (Q23087199) --> copper (Q753)
Example 2glutamate transporter (Q5419641) --> L-glutamate(1−) (Q27104095)
Example 3chloride channel (Q106916978) --> chloride ion (Q108200)
Example 4solute carrier family 6 member 4 (Q410142) --> serotonin (Q167934)
Planned useConnecting channels and other proteins to their substrates.
Expected completenessalways incomplete (Q21873886)

Motivation

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Currently, channels are not linked to their substrates. For example, always incomplete (Q21873886) is not currently linked to sodium sodium (Q658). That makes it impossible to query for channels of a particular compound type. Such queries would be very useful for biology/biomedicine enthusiasts using Wikidata.

Multiple synonyms are provided as the property is expected to account for different ways in which proteins (or other macromolecules) carry substances across compartments. TiagoLubiana (talk) 17:43, 21 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

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WikiProject Molecular biology has more than 50 participants and couldn't be pinged. Please post on the WikiProject's talk page instead. -- TiagoLubiana (talk) 17:55, 21 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

 Support An important property to add. Coming from the channel field, I'm not 100% satisfied by the description though. Channels don't "transport." And "facilitates" sounds a lot like "catalyzes," which channels also don't do. What about being more explicit, e.g., "The cargo/substrate actively transported or passively channeled by a protein." AlexanderPico (talk) 20:16, 21 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
 Support Did you already write a shape expression? --Egon Willighagen (talk) 07:49, 22 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]