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Accession
GO:0006044
Name
N-acetylglucosamine metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
N-acetylglucosamine metabolism
Alternate IDs
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Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving N-acetylglucosamine. The D isomer is a common structural unit of glycoproteins in plants, bacteria and animals; it is often the terminal sugar of an oligosaccharide group of a glycoprotein. Source: ISBN:0198506732
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Parents of N-acetylglucosamine metabolic process (GO:0006044)
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N-acetylglucosamine metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  glucosamine-containing compound metabolic process (GO:1901071)
N-acetylglucosamine metabolic process [RO:0004007 relation] RO:0004007  N-acetylglucosamine (CHEBI:59640)
Children of N-acetylglucosamine metabolic process (GO:0006044)
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N-acetylglucosamine catabolic process (GO:0006046) [is_a relation] is_a  N-acetylglucosamine metabolic process
N-acetylglucosamine biosynthetic process (GO:0006045) [is_a relation] is_a  N-acetylglucosamine metabolic process
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