GO:0006540 glutamate decarboxylation to succinate, MF parts as subclasses about go-ontology

[ValWood]

Also consider:
GABA (gamma-aminobutyrate) shunt
as a primary name?
(check usage)

[ValWood]

GO:0009450 | gamma-aminobutyric acid catabolic process
appears to be a pathway intermediate here describing the second step:

I blocked GO:0009450 @pombase (includes some PAINT annotation)

[ValWood]

Pombase used the more specific
GO:0034386 4-aminobutyrate:2-oxoglutarate transaminase activity
instead of
GO:0003867 4-aminobutyrate transaminase activity
but this is 2.6.1.19

[deustp01]

There is a tangential but possibly important question here: can processes have other processes as parts? This relationship seems plausible. The work to identify cassettes in signaling processes fits well with this view: a ligand binding and receptor activation sequence feeds into a MAP kinase cascade feeds into modification of gene expression.

And there's the worked-out example of kinds of glycolysis. GO:0061620 "glycolytic process through glucose-6-phosphate", defined as the chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of a carbohydrate into pyruvate, occurring through a glucose-6-phosphate intermediate, with the concomitant production of a small amount of ATP. This process has children GO:0061621 canonical glycolysis (the glycolytic process that begins with the conversion of glucose to glucose-6-phosphate by glucokinase activity. Glycolytic processes are the chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of a carbohydrate into pyruvate, with the concomitant production of a small amount of ATP), GO:0061622 glycolytic process through glucose-1-phosphate (The chemical reactions and pathways through a glucose-1-phosphate intermediate that result in the catabolism of a carbohydrate into pyruvate, with the concomitant production of a small amount of ATP), and GO:0061633 transport-coupled glycolytic process through glucose-6-phosphate (the chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of glucose into pyruvate, in which the glucose is converted to glucose-6-phosphate intermediate coupled to transmembrane transport) @ukemi

[ValWood]

A more fundamental problem, Pombe doesn't appear to have GAD1 so I don't know how we get from
glutamate to 4-aminobutonoate. I will need to extend further for sure.

[ValWood]

Closing, I don't think this is a blocker, and I know little about the pathway