Term Information

Accession
GO:0043646
Name
cephalosporin biosynthetic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
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Alternate IDs
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Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of a cephalosporin, any of large class of tetracyclic triterpene broad-spectrum antibiotics similar both chemically and in their mode of action to penicillin, first isolated from the culture filtrates of mediterranean fungus acremonium (cephalosporium acremonium), and effective against gram-positive bacteria. Source: Wikipedia:Cephalosporin, GOC:jl
Comment
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History
See term history for GO:0043646 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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Parents of cephalosporin biosynthetic process (GO:0043646)
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cephalosporin biosynthetic process [is_a relation] is_a  cephalosporin metabolic process (GO:0043645)
cephalosporin biosynthetic process [is_a relation] is_a  beta-lactam antibiotic biosynthetic process (GO:0030654)
cephalosporin biosynthetic process [is_a relation] is_a  sulfur compound biosynthetic process (GO:0044272)
Children of cephalosporin biosynthetic process (GO:0043646)
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cephalosporin C biosynthetic process (GO:1901268) [is_a relation] is_a  cephalosporin biosynthetic process
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