AmiGO 2: Term Details for "uronic acid metabolic process" (GO:0006063)

Accession: GO:0006063
Name: uronic acid metabolic process
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: uronic acid metabolism
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways involving uronic acid, any monocarboxylic acid formally derived by oxidizing to a carboxyl group the terminal hydroxymethylene group of either an aldose with four or more carbon atoms in the molecule, or of any glycoside derived from such an aldose. Source: ISBN:0198506732
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0006063 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to uronic acid metabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to uronic acid metabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for uronic acid metabolic process (excluding "regulates").

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subject	relation	object
uronic acid metabolic process	RO:0004007	uronate (CHEBI:33549)
uronic acid metabolic process	is_a	monocarboxylic acid metabolic process (GO:0032787)

subject	relation	object
galacturonate metabolic process (GO:0019586)	is_a	uronic acid metabolic process
glucuronate metabolic process (GO:0019585)	is_a	uronic acid metabolic process

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