Term Information

Accession
GO:0006108
Name
malate metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
malate metabolism
Alternate IDs
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Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving malate, the anion of hydroxybutanedioic acid, a chiral hydroxydicarboxylic acid. The (+) enantiomer is an important intermediate in metabolism as a component of both the TCA cycle and the glyoxylate cycle. Source: ISBN:0198506732
Comment
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History
See term history for GO:0006108 at QuickGO
Subset
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malate metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  dicarboxylic acid metabolic process (GO:0043648)

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