AmiGO 2: Term Details for "aflatoxin metabolic process" (GO:0046222)

Accession: GO:0046222
Name: aflatoxin metabolic process
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: aflatoxin metabolism, aflatoxin B1 metabolic process, aflatoxin B1 metabolism, aflatoxin B2 metabolic process, aflatoxin B2 metabolism, aflatoxin B metabolic process
Alternate IDs: GO:0043390, GO:0043389, GO:0043391
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways involving aflatoxin, a fungal metabolite found as a contaminant in moldy grains that induces liver cancer. Aflatoxin induces a G to T transversion at codon 249 of p53, leading to its inactivation. Aflatoxin is converted to a chemical carcinogen by P450. Source: GOC:ai
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0046222 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to aflatoxin metabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to aflatoxin metabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for aflatoxin metabolic process (excluding "regulates").

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subject	relation	object
aflatoxin metabolic process	RO:0004007	aflatoxin (CHEBI:22271)
aflatoxin metabolic process	is_a	organic heteropentacyclic compound metabolic process (GO:1901376)
aflatoxin metabolic process	is_a	mycotoxin metabolic process (GO:0043385)

subject	relation	object
aflatoxin catabolic process (GO:0046223)	is_a	aflatoxin metabolic process
aflatoxin biosynthetic process (GO:0045122)	is_a	aflatoxin metabolic process

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