Term Information

Accession
GO:0006592
Name
ornithine biosynthetic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
ornithine anabolism, ornithine biosynthesis, ornithine formation, ornithine synthesis
Alternate IDs
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Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of ornithine, an amino acid only rarely found in proteins, but which is important in living organisms as an intermediate in the reactions of the urea cycle and in arginine biosynthesis. Source: GOC:jl, ISBN:0192801023
Comment
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History
See term history for GO:0006592 at QuickGO
Subset
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Parents of ornithine biosynthetic process (GO:0006592)
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ornithine biosynthetic process [is_a relation] is_a  alpha-amino acid biosynthetic process (GO:1901607)
ornithine biosynthetic process [is_a relation] is_a  ornithine metabolic process (GO:0006591)

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