Term Information

Accession
GO:0006209
Name
cytosine catabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
cytosine breakdown, cytosine catabolism, cytosine degradation
Alternate IDs
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Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of cytosine, 4-amino-2-hydroxypyrimidine, a pyrimidine derivative that is one of the five main bases found in nucleic acids; it occurs widely in cytidine derivatives. Source: GOC:go_curators
Comment
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History
See term history for GO:0006209 at QuickGO
Subset
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Parents of cytosine catabolic process (GO:0006209)
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cytosine catabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  cytosine metabolic process (GO:0019858)
cytosine catabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  aromatic compound catabolic process (GO:0019439)
cytosine catabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  pyrimidine nucleobase catabolic process (GO:0006208)

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