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GO:0033067
Name
macrolide metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
macrolide metabolism
Alternate IDs
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Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving macrolides, any of a large group of polyketide compounds that contain a large lactone ring with few or no double bonds and no nitrogen atoms, linked glycosidically to one or more sugar groups. The macrolides include the carbomycins, the erythromycins, oleandomycin, oligomycins, and the spiramycins, and act as antibiotics, mainly against Gram-positive bacteria. Source: PMID:17298179, ISBN:0198506732
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Parents of macrolide metabolic process (GO:0033067)
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macrolide metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  polyketide metabolic process (GO:0030638)
macrolide metabolic process [RO:0004007 relation] RO:0004007  macrolide (CHEBI:25106)
macrolide metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  antibiotic metabolic process (GO:0016999)
macrolide metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  lactone metabolic process (GO:1901334)
Children of macrolide metabolic process (GO:0033067)
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macrolide biosynthetic process (GO:0033068) [is_a relation] is_a  macrolide metabolic process
enterobactin metabolic process (GO:0009238) [is_a relation] is_a  macrolide metabolic process
epothilone metabolic process (GO:0050813) [is_a relation] is_a  macrolide metabolic process
erythromycin metabolic process (GO:1901113) [is_a relation] is_a  macrolide metabolic process
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