diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index f118f4b2..a049a58c 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: clusterProfiler
 Type: Package
 Title: A universal enrichment tool for interpreting omics data
-Version: 4.5.2.001
+Version: 4.5.3
 Authors@R: c(
     person(given = "Guangchuang", family = "Yu",        email = "guangchuangyu@gmail.com",   role  = c("aut", "cre", "cph"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-6485-8781")),
     person(given = "Li-Gen",      family = "Wang",      email = "reeganwang020@gmail.com",   role  = "ctb"),
diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index afd800fa..92befc53 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ export(gseMKEGG)
 export(gseWP)
 export(gseaplot)
 export(gsfilter)
+export(gson_GO_mapper)
 export(gson_GO)
 export(gson_KEGG)
 export(gson_KEGG_mapper)
diff --git a/R/gson.R b/R/gson.R
index 697ecaca..82a4252a 100644
--- a/R/gson.R
+++ b/R/gson.R
@@ -90,6 +90,89 @@ gson_WP <- function(organism) {
 }
 
 
+#' Build a gson object that annotate Gene Ontology
+#'
+#' @param data a two-column data.frame of original GO annotation. The columns are "gene_id" and "go_id".
+#' @param ont type of GO annotation, which is "ALL", "BP", "MF", or "CC". default: "ALL".
+#' @param species name of species. Default: NULL.
+#' @param ... pass to `gson::gson()` constructor.
+#'
+#' @return a `gson` instance
+#' @export
+#'
+#' @examples
+#'  data = data.frame(gene_id = "gene1", 
+#'                    go_id = c("GO:0035492", "GO:0009764", "GO:0031063", "GO:0033714", "GO:0036349"))
+#'  gson_go_mapper(data, species = "E. coli")
+gson_GO_mapper = function(data, 
+                     ont = c("ALL", "BP", "CC", "MF"), 
+                     species = NULL, 
+                     ...){
+  ont = match.arg(ont)
+  
+  data = unique(data) # cleanup
+  if (nrow(data) == 0) {
+    simpleError("Data is empty in this call.")
+  }
+  
+  # resources from `GO.db`
+  goterms = AnnotationDbi::Ontology(GO.db::GOTERM)
+  termname = AnnotationDbi::Term(GO.db::GOTERM)
+  go.db_info = GO.db::GO_dbInfo()
+  go.db_source_date = go.db_info[go.db_info$name == "GOSOURCEDATE", "value"]
+  ancestor_map = lapply(c(GO.db::GOBPANCESTOR, 
+                          GO.db::GOCCANCESTOR,
+                          GO.db::GOMFANCESTOR),
+                        as.list) %>%
+    unlist(recursive = FALSE)
+  
+  # filter GO terms
+  data[["ontology"]] = goterms[data[["go_id"]]]
+  n_na_ont = sum(is.na(data[["ontology"]]))
+  if ( n_na_ont > 0){
+    warning(sprintf("%s GO term(s) are too new for current `GO.db` [source date: %s],\n  and are to be dropped. Consider to update `GO.db` if possible.",
+                    n_na_ont, 
+                    go.db_source_date))
+  }
+  
+  # map to GO ancestor
+  ancestor_list = ancestor_map[data$go_id]
+  names(ancestor_list) = data$gene_id
+  ancestor_go = AnnotationDbi::unlist2(ancestor_list)
+  
+  # gsid2gene
+  gsid2gene = data.frame(
+    gsid = c(ancestor_go, data$go_id),
+    gene = c(names(ancestor_go), data$gene_id),
+    ontology = goterms[c(ancestor_go, data$go_id)]
+  ) %>%
+    dplyr::filter(.data$gsid != "all") %>%
+    unique()
+  
+  if (ont != "ALL"){
+    gsid2gene = gsid2gene %>%
+      dplyr::filter(.data$ontology == ont)
+  }
+  
+  # gsid2name
+  uniq_gsid = unique(gsid2gene$gsid) %>% as.character()
+  gsid2name = data.frame(
+    gsid = uniq_gsid,
+    name = termname[uniq_gsid] %>% as.character()
+  )
+  
+  # construct `gson` object
+  gson::gson(
+    gsid2gene = gsid2gene,
+    gsid2name = gsid2name,
+    species = species,
+    gsname = paste0("Gene Ontology: ", ont),
+    version = sprintf("[GO.db source date: %s]", go.db_source_date),
+    accessed_date = as.character(Sys.Date()),
+    ...
+  )
+}
+
 
 #' Build KEGG annotation for novel species using KEGG Mapper
 #'