AmiGO 2: Term Details for "taurine metabolic process" (GO:0019530)

Accession: GO:0019530
Name: taurine metabolic process
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: taurine metabolism
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways involving taurine (2-aminoethanesulfonic acid), a sulphur-containing amino acid derivative important in the metabolism of fats. Source: ISBN:0198600461, GOC:jl
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0019530 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to taurine metabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to taurine metabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for taurine metabolic process (excluding "regulates").

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subject	relation	object
taurine metabolic process	is_a	alkanesulfonate metabolic process (GO:0019694)
taurine metabolic process	RO:0004007	taurine zwitterion (CHEBI:507393)

subject	relation	object
taurine biosynthetic process (GO:0042412)	is_a	taurine metabolic process
taurine catabolic process (GO:0019529)	is_a	taurine metabolic process
L-cysteine catabolic process to taurine (GO:0019452)	is_a	taurine metabolic process

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