AmiGO 2: Term Details for "very long-chain fatty acid metabolic process" (GO:0000038)

Accession: GO:0000038
Name: very long-chain fatty acid metabolic process
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: very long chain fatty acid metabolic process, very-long-chain fatty acid metabolic process, very-long-chain fatty acid metabolism
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways involving a very long-chain fatty acid. A very long-chain fatty acid has an aliphatic tail containing more than 22 carbons. Source: GOC:hjd
Comment: While there is not universal consensus on the lengths of short-, medium-, long- and very-long-chain fatty acids, the GO uses the definitions in ChEBI (see CHEBI:26666, CHEBI:59554, CHEBI:15904 and CHEBI:27283).
History: See term history for GO:0000038 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to very long-chain fatty acid metabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to very long-chain fatty acid metabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for very long-chain fatty acid metabolic process (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
very long-chain fatty acid metabolic process	is_a	fatty acid metabolic process (GO:0006631)
very long-chain fatty acid metabolic process	RO:0004007	very long-chain fatty acid anion (CHEBI:58950)

subject	relation	object
very long-chain fatty acid catabolic process (GO:0042760)	is_a	very long-chain fatty acid metabolic process
very long-chain fatty acid biosynthetic process (GO:0042761)	is_a	very long-chain fatty acid metabolic process

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