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Accession
GO:0009445
Name
putrescine metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
putrescine metabolism
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving putrescine, 1,4-diaminobutane; putrescine can be formed by decarboxylation of ornithine and is the metabolic precursor of spermidine and spermine. Source: GOC:ai
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History
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Subset
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Parents of putrescine metabolic process (GO:0009445)
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putrescine metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  polyamine metabolic process (GO:0006595)
putrescine metabolic process [RO:0004007 relation] RO:0004007  1,4-butanediammonium (CHEBI:326268)
Children of putrescine metabolic process (GO:0009445)
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putrescine biosynthetic process (GO:0009446) [is_a relation] is_a  putrescine metabolic process
putrescine catabolic process (GO:0009447) [is_a relation] is_a  putrescine metabolic process
putrescine acetylation (GO:0032920) [is_a relation] is_a  putrescine metabolic process
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