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Accession
GO:0006591
Name
ornithine metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
ornithine metabolism
Alternate IDs
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Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving ornithine, an amino acid only rarely found in proteins, but which is important in living organisms as an intermediate in the reactions of the urea cycle and in arginine biosynthesis. Source: GOC:jl, ISBN:0192801023
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History
See term history for GO:0006591 at QuickGO
Chem. react.
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Subset
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Parents of ornithine metabolic process (GO:0006591)
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ornithine metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  non-proteinogenic amino acid metabolic process (GO:0170041)
ornithine metabolic process [RO:0004007 relation] RO:0004007  ornithinium(1+) (CHEBI:46912)
ornithine metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  alpha-amino acid metabolic process (GO:1901605)
Children of ornithine metabolic process (GO:0006591)
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arginine biosynthetic process via ornithine (GO:0042450) [is_a relation] is_a  ornithine metabolic process
glutamate catabolic process to ornithine (GO:0019555) [is_a relation] is_a  ornithine metabolic process
ornithine biosynthetic process (GO:0006592) [is_a relation] is_a  ornithine metabolic process
regulation of ornithine metabolic process (GO:0090368) [RO:0002211 relation] RO:0002211  ornithine metabolic process
ornithine catabolic process (GO:0006593) [is_a relation] is_a  ornithine metabolic process
L-alanine biosynthetic process via ornithine (GO:0019273) [is_a relation] is_a  ornithine metabolic process
ornithine carbamoyltransferase activity (GO:0004585) [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  ornithine metabolic process
D-ornithine metabolic process (GO:0033056) [is_a relation] is_a  ornithine metabolic process
arginine catabolic process to ornithine (GO:0019547) [is_a relation] is_a  ornithine metabolic process
putrescine biosynthetic process from ornithine (GO:0033387) [is_a relation] is_a  ornithine metabolic process
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