Term Information

Accession
GO:0016116
Name
carotenoid metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
carotenoid metabolism
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving carotenoids, tetraterpenoid compounds in which two units of 4 isoprenoid residues joined head-to-tail are themselves joined tail-to-tail. Source: ISBN:0198547684
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0016116 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of carotenoid metabolic process (GO:0016116)
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carotenoid metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  tetraterpenoid metabolic process (GO:0016108)
Children of carotenoid metabolic process (GO:0016116)
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alpha-zeacarotene metabolic process (GO:1901819) [is_a relation] is_a  carotenoid metabolic process
delta-carotene metabolic process (GO:1901822) [is_a relation] is_a  carotenoid metabolic process
xanthophyll metabolic process (GO:0016122) [is_a relation] is_a  carotenoid metabolic process
beta-zeacarotene metabolic process (GO:1901816) [is_a relation] is_a  carotenoid metabolic process
zeaxanthin bis(beta-D-glucoside) metabolic process (GO:1901828) [is_a relation] is_a  carotenoid metabolic process
beta-carotene metabolic process (GO:1901810) [is_a relation] is_a  carotenoid metabolic process
carotenoid biosynthetic process (GO:0016117) [is_a relation] is_a  carotenoid metabolic process
carotenoid catabolic process (GO:0016118) [is_a relation] is_a  carotenoid metabolic process
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