AmiGO 2: Term Details for "L-xylitol metabolic process" (GO:0051164)

Accession: GO:0051164
Name: L-xylitol metabolic process
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: L-xylitol metabolism
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways involving L-xylitol, a five-carbon sugar alcohol derived from xylose by reduction of the carbonyl group. It is as sweet as sucrose and is used as a noncariogenic sweetner and as a sugar substitute in diabetic diets. Source: GOC:ai
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0051164 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to L-xylitol metabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to L-xylitol metabolic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for L-xylitol metabolic process (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
L-xylitol metabolic process	is_a	pentitol metabolic process (GO:0019519)
L-xylitol metabolic process	RO:0004007	xylitol (CHEBI:17151)

subject	relation	object
L-xylitol catabolic process (GO:0051160)	is_a	L-xylitol metabolic process

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