AmiGO 2: Term Details for "vitamin K metabolic process" (GO:0042373)

Accession: GO:0042373
Name: vitamin K metabolic process
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: vitamin K metabolism, naphthoquinone metabolic process, naphthoquinone metabolism
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways involving any of the forms of vitamin K, quinone-derived vitamins which are involved in the synthesis of blood-clotting factors in mammals. Vitamin K substances share a methylated naphthoquinone ring structure and vary in the aliphatic side chains attached to the molecule. Source: GOC:jl, http://www.dentistry.leeds.ac.uk/biochem/thcme/vitamins.html#k
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0042373 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
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subject	relation	object
vitamin K metabolic process	is_a	cellular ketone metabolic process (GO:0042180)
vitamin K metabolic process	RO:0004007	vitamin K (CHEBI:28384)
vitamin K metabolic process	is_a	fat-soluble vitamin metabolic process (GO:0006775)

subject	relation	object
vitamin K biosynthetic process (GO:0042371)	is_a	vitamin K metabolic process
phylloquinone metabolic process (GO:0042374)	is_a	vitamin K metabolic process
vitamin K catabolic process (GO:0042377)	is_a	vitamin K metabolic process

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