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GO:0051791
Name
medium-chain fatty acid metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
medium chain fatty acid metabolic process, medium chain fatty acid metabolism, medium-chain fatty acid metabolism
Alternate IDs
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Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving a medium-chain fatty acid. A medium-chain fatty acid has an aliphatic tail containing 6 to 12 carbons. Source: Wikipedia:Fatty_acid_metabolisms
Comment
While there is not universal consensus on the lengths of short-, medium-, long- and very-long-chain fatty acids, the GO uses the definitions in ChEBI (see CHEBI:26666, CHEBI:59554, CHEBI:15904 and CHEBI:27283).
History
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Subset
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Parents of medium-chain fatty acid metabolic process (GO:0051791)
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medium-chain fatty acid metabolic process [RO:0004007 relation] RO:0004007  medium-chain fatty acid anion (CHEBI:59558)
medium-chain fatty acid metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  fatty acid metabolic process (GO:0006631)
Children of medium-chain fatty acid metabolic process (GO:0051791)
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medium-chain fatty acid biosynthetic process (GO:0051792) [is_a relation] is_a  medium-chain fatty acid metabolic process
medium-chain fatty acid catabolic process (GO:0051793) [is_a relation] is_a  medium-chain fatty acid metabolic process
lauric acid metabolic process (GO:0048252) [is_a relation] is_a  medium-chain fatty acid metabolic process
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