AmiGO 2: Term Details for "O antigen metabolic process" (GO:0046402)

Accession: GO:0046402
Name: O antigen metabolic process
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: O antigen metabolism
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways involving the O side chain of a lipopolysaccharide, which determines the antigenic specificity of the organism. It is made up of about 50 repeating units of a branched tetrasaccharide. Source: ISBN:0198506732
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0046402 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to O antigen metabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to O antigen metabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for O antigen metabolic process (excluding "regulates").

Include "regulates"
For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
O antigen metabolic process	is_a	polysaccharide metabolic process (GO:0005976)

subject	relation	object
O antigen biosynthetic process (GO:0009243)	is_a	O antigen metabolic process

GONUTS Add usage comments for this term on the GONUTS wiki.