AmiGO 2: Term Details for "nitrate metabolic process" (GO:0042126)

Accession: GO:0042126
Name: nitrate metabolic process
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: nitrate metabolism
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways involving nitrates, inorganic or organic salts and esters of nitric acid. Source: GOC:jl
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0042126 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to nitrate metabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to nitrate metabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for nitrate metabolic process (excluding "regulates").

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subject	relation	object
nitrate metabolic process	is_a	reactive nitrogen species metabolic process (GO:2001057)
nitrate metabolic process	is_a	oxoacid metabolic process (GO:0043436)
nitrate metabolic process	RO:0004007	nitrate (CHEBI:17632)

subject	relation	object
nitrate catabolic process (GO:0043602)	is_a	nitrate metabolic process
nitrate assimilation (GO:0042128)	is_a	nitrate metabolic process

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