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binding_site

SO:0000409

Definition: A biological_region of sequence that, in the molecule, interacts selectively and non-covalently with other molecules. A region on the surface of a molecule that may interact with another molecule. When applied to polypeptides: Amino acids involved in binding or interactions. It can also apply to an amino acid bond which is represented by the positions of the two flanking amino acids.

Comments and references

See GO:0005488 : binding.

Definition references: EBIBS:GAR, SO:ke

Synonyms

ScopeValue
exactINSDC_feature:misc_binding
exactbinding site
exactbinding_or_interaction_site
relatedsite

Identifiers and subsets

Accession: SO:0000409

Persistent URL: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SO_0000409

Alternate IDs: BS:00033

Subsets: SOFA, biosapiens

Cross references: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_site

History summary

Term history is reconstructed from the Git-era ontology files by comparing ontology classes across revisions. Earlier SVN-era changes will be added at a future date.

First seen in Git-era editable history: 2016-12-05 in commit 92e3cae

Most recent Git-era change: 2018-01-26 in commit 5fe48bd

Number of changes: 3

Ontology neighborhood diagram

Ontology neighborhood for SO:0000409 Ontology neighborhood graph for SO:0000409 binding_site. Parent, child, and related nodes can be activated to open their term pages. SO:0001411 biological_region SO:0001411 biological_region SO:0000409 binding_site SO:0000409 binding_site SO:0001656 metal_binding_site SO:0001656 metal_binding_site SO:0001657 ligand_binding_site SO:0001657 ligand_binding_site SO:0001655 nucleotide_binding_site SO:0001655 nucleotide_binding_site SO:0000410 protein_binding_site SO:0000410 protein_binding_site SO:0002233 homologous_chromosome_recognition_and_pairing_locus SO:0002233 homologous_chromosome_recognition_and_pairing_locus SO:0001018 epitope SO:0001018 epitope
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Change history

This timeline summarizes changes identified in SO’s GitHub commit history, including updates to labels, definitions, parent terms, synonyms, subsets, and obsoletion status. It is a best-effort reconstruction and may not include every change to a term. Since only history from GitHub is included at the moment, any term added before the migration from SVN to Git will show as being created in 2016. This will be addressed once SVN history is incorporated.

DateChangeSummaryEvidence
2018-01-26synonym addedSynonym added: INSDC_feature:misc_binding
Scope: exact
5fe48bd
2018-01-26synonym addedSynonym added: binding site
Scope: exact
5fe48bd
2016-12-05createdTerm introduced into the editable ontology history
Initial label: binding_site
Initial definition captured.
Initial parent: SO:0001411
92e3cae