AmiGO 2: Term Details for "keratan sulfate metabolic process" (GO:0042339)

Accession: GO:0042339
Name: keratan sulfate metabolic process
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: keratan sulfate metabolism, keratan sulphate metabolic process, keratan sulphate metabolism
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways involving keratan sulfate, a glycosaminoglycan with repeat units consisting of beta-1,4-linked D-galactopyranosyl-beta-(1,4)-N-acetyl-D-glucosamine 6-sulfate and with variable amounts of fucose, sialic acid and mannose units; keratan sulfate chains are covalently linked by a glycosidic attachment through the trisaccharide galactosyl-galactosyl-xylose to peptidyl-threonine or serine residues. Source: GOC:go_curators
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0042339 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to keratan sulfate metabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to keratan sulfate metabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for keratan sulfate metabolic process (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
keratan sulfate metabolic process	RO:0004007	keratan sulfate (CHEBI:60924)
keratan sulfate metabolic process	is_a	sulfur compound metabolic process (GO:0006790)
keratan sulfate metabolic process	is_a	mucopolysaccharide metabolic process (GO:1903510)

subject	relation	object
keratan sulfate catabolic process (GO:0042340)	is_a	keratan sulfate metabolic process
keratan sulfate biosynthetic process (GO:0018146)	is_a	keratan sulfate metabolic process

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