AmiGO 2: Term Details for "medium-chain fatty acid transport" (GO:0001579)

Accession: GO:0001579
Name: medium-chain fatty acid transport
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The directed movement of a medium-chain fatty acid into, out of or within a cell, or between cells, by means of some agent such as a transporter or pore. A medium-chain fatty acid has an aliphatic tail containing 6 to 12 carbons. Source: GOC:ai
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:0001579 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to medium-chain fatty acid transport (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to medium-chain fatty acid transport (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for medium-chain fatty acid transport (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
medium-chain fatty acid transport	RO:0004009	medium-chain fatty acid anion (CHEBI:59558)
medium-chain fatty acid transport	is_a	fatty acid transport (GO:0015908)

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