AmiGO 2: Term Details for "urate metabolic process" (GO:0046415)

Accession: GO:0046415
Name: urate metabolic process
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: urate metabolism
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways involving urate, the anion of uric acid, 2,6,8-trioxypurine, the end product of purine metabolism in certain mammals and the main excretory product in uricotelic animals. Source: ISBN:0198506732
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0046415 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to urate metabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to urate metabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for urate metabolic process (excluding "regulates").

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subject	relation	object
urate metabolic process	RO:0004007	7,9-dihydro-1H-purine-2,6,8(3H)-trione (CHEBI:17775)
urate metabolic process	is_a	purine-containing compound metabolic process (GO:0072521)
urate metabolic process	is_a	small molecule metabolic process (GO:0044281)

subject	relation	object
urate biosynthetic process (GO:0034418)	is_a	urate metabolic process
urate catabolic process (GO:0019628)	is_a	urate metabolic process

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