AmiGO 2: Term Details for "spermine metabolic process" (GO:0008215)

Accession: GO:0008215
Name: spermine metabolic process
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: spermine metabolism
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways involving spermine, a polybasic amine found in human sperm, in ribosomes and in some viruses, which is involved in nucleic acid packaging. Synthesis is regulated by ornithine decarboxylase which plays a key role in control of DNA replication. Source: GOC:curators
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0008215 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to spermine metabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to spermine metabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for spermine metabolic process (excluding "regulates").

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subject	relation	object
spermine metabolic process	is_a	polyamine metabolic process (GO:0006595)
spermine metabolic process	RO:0004007	spermine(4+) (CHEBI:45725)

subject	relation	object
arginine catabolic process to spermine (GO:0019548)	is_a	spermine metabolic process
spermine catabolic process (GO:0046208)	is_a	spermine metabolic process
spermine biosynthetic process (GO:0006597)	is_a	spermine metabolic process
spermine acetylation (GO:0032919)	is_a	spermine metabolic process

spermine metabolic process