# HISTORY
24 Mar 2016: Updated by: TOUCHUP-v1.15
14 Mar 2016: Updated by: TOUCHUP-v1.14

# molecular_function
20141210: root_PTN000202667 has function metal ion binding (GO:0046872) 
20141210: root_PTN000202667 has function ribulose-phosphate 3-epimerase activity (GO:0004750) 

# cellular_component
20141210: root_PTN000202667 is found in cytosol (GO:0005829) 

# biological_process
20141210: root_PTN000202667 participates in pentose-phosphate shunt, non-oxidative branch (GO:0009052) 
20141210: root_PTN000202667 participates in pentose catabolic process (GO:0019323) 
20141210: root_PTN000202667 participates in cellular carbohydrate metabolic process (GO:0044262) 

# WARNINGS - THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN REMOVED FOR THE REASONS NOTED

# NOTES
MAF: Propagated ribulose-phosphate 3-epimerase activity to the root since even ECOLI_alsE shows this activity.

# REFERENCE
Annotation inferences using phylogenetic trees
The goal of the GO Reference Genome Project, described in PMID 19578431, is to provide accurate, complete and consistent GO annotations for all genes in twelve model organism genomes. To this end, GO curators are annotating evolutionary trees from the PANTHER database with GO terms describing molecular function, biological process and cellular component. GO terms based on experimental data from the scientific literature are used to annotate ancestral genes in the phylogenetic tree by sequence similarity (ISS), and unannotated descendants of these ancestral genes are inferred to have inherited these same GO annotations by descent. The annotations are done using a tool called PAINT (Phylogenetic Annotation and INference Tool).