AmiGO 2: Term Details for "menaquinone biosynthetic process" (GO:0009234)

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Accession: GO:0009234
Name: menaquinone biosynthetic process
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: menaquinone anabolism, menaquinone biosynthesis, menaquinone formation, menaquinone synthesis, menatetrenone biosynthesis, menatetrenone biosynthetic process, multiprenylmenaquinone biosynthesis, multiprenylmenaquinone biosynthetic process, vitamin K2 biosynthesis, vitamin K2 biosynthetic process
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of any of the menaquinones. Structurally, menaquinones consist of a methylated naphthoquinone ring structure and side chains composed of a variable number of unsaturated isoprenoid residues. Menaquinones that have vitamin K activity and are known as vitamin K2. Source: GOC:jl, http://www.dentistry.leeds.ac.uk/biochem/thcme/vitamins.html#k
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0009234 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to menaquinone biosynthetic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to menaquinone biosynthetic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for menaquinone biosynthetic process (excluding "regulates").

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GO:0008150 biological_process
GO:0009987 cellular process
GO:0008152 metabolic process
GO:0009058 biosynthetic process
GO:0044237 cellular metabolic process
GO:0071704 organic substance metabolic process
GO:0044281 small molecule metabolic process
GO:0044249 cellular biosynthetic process
GO:0042180 cellular ketone metabolic process
GO:1901576 organic substance biosynthetic process
GO:0044283 small molecule biosynthetic process
GO:0042181 ketone biosynthetic process
GO:0009233 menaquinone metabolic process
GO:0009234 menaquinone biosynthetic process

Parents of menaquinone biosynthetic process (GO:0009234)

subject	relation	object
menaquinone biosynthetic process	is_a	ketone biosynthetic process (GO:0042181)
menaquinone biosynthetic process	is_a	menaquinone metabolic process (GO:0009233)
menaquinone biosynthetic process	RO:0004008	menaquinones (CHEBI:25185)

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MetaCyc: MENAQUINONESYN-PWY