AmiGO 2: Term Details for "vitamin E metabolic process" (GO:0042360)

Accession: GO:0042360
Name: vitamin E metabolic process
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: tocopherol metabolic process, tocopherol metabolism, vitamin E metabolism, alpha-tocopherol metabolic process, alpha-tocopherol metabolism
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways involving vitamin E, tocopherol, which includes a series of eight structurally similar compounds. Alpha-tocopherol is the most active form in humans and is a powerful biological antioxidant. Source: ISBN:0198506732, GOC:jl
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0042360 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to vitamin E metabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to vitamin E metabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for vitamin E metabolic process (excluding "regulates").

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subject	relation	object
vitamin E metabolic process	is_a	organic cyclic compound metabolic process (GO:1901360)
vitamin E metabolic process	is_a	fat-soluble vitamin metabolic process (GO:0006775)
vitamin E metabolic process	RO:0004007	vitamin E (CHEBI:33234)
vitamin E metabolic process	is_a	organic hydroxy compound metabolic process (GO:1901615)

subject	relation	object
vitamin E biosynthetic process (GO:0010189)	is_a	vitamin E metabolic process

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