Term Information

Accession
GO:0006568
Name
tryptophan metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
tryptophan metabolism
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving tryptophan, the chiral amino acid 2-amino-3-(1H-indol-3-yl)propanoic acid. Source: ISBN:0198547684
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0006568 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of tryptophan metabolic process (GO:0006568)
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tryptophan metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  indolalkylamine metabolic process (GO:0006586)
tryptophan metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  aromatic amino acid metabolic process (GO:0009072)
tryptophan metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  alpha-amino acid metabolic process (GO:1901605)
Children of tryptophan metabolic process (GO:0006568)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
serotonin biosynthetic process from tryptophan (GO:0006587) [is_a relation] is_a  tryptophan metabolic process
nicotinate nucleotide biosynthetic process from tryptophan (GO:0019356) [is_a relation] is_a  tryptophan metabolic process
'de novo' NAD biosynthetic process from tryptophan (GO:0034354) [is_a relation] is_a  tryptophan metabolic process
psilocybin biosynthetic process (GO:0140380) [is_a relation] is_a  tryptophan metabolic process
tryptophan biosynthetic process (GO:0000162) [is_a relation] is_a  tryptophan metabolic process
positive regulation of tryptophan metabolic process (GO:0090358) [RO:0002213 relation] RO:0002213  tryptophan metabolic process
regulation of tryptophan metabolic process (GO:0090357) [RO:0002211 relation] RO:0002211  tryptophan metabolic process
tryptophan catabolic process (GO:0006569) [is_a relation] is_a  tryptophan metabolic process
indoleacetic acid biosynthetic process via tryptophan (GO:0009848) [is_a relation] is_a  tryptophan metabolic process
Wikipedia
Tryptophan