Term Information

Accession
GO:0000050
Name
urea cycle
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
ornithine cycle, urea biosynthesis, urea biosynthetic process
Alternate IDs
GO:0006594, GO:0006871
Definition
The sequence of reactions by which arginine is synthesized from ornithine, then cleaved to yield urea and regenerate ornithine. The overall reaction equation is NH3 + CO2 + aspartate + 3 ATP + 2 H2O = urea + fumarate + 2 ADP + 2 phosphate + AMP + diphosphate. Source: ISBN:0198506732, GOC:vw, GOC:pde
Comment
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History
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Subset
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Parents of urea cycle (GO:0000050)
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urea cycle [is_a relation] is_a  amide biosynthetic process (GO:0043604)
urea cycle [is_a relation] is_a  organonitrogen compound biosynthetic process (GO:1901566)
urea cycle [is_a relation] is_a  urea metabolic process (GO:0019627)

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Urea_cycle