Planteome: Term Details for "glutathione metabolic process" (GO:0006749)

Accession: GO:0006749
Name: glutathione metabolic process
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: glutathione metabolism, oxidized glutathione reduction
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways involving glutathione, the tripeptide glutamylcysteinylglycine, which acts as a coenzyme for some enzymes and as an antioxidant in the protection of sulfhydryl groups in enzymes and other proteins; it has a specific role in the reduction of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and oxidized ascorbate, and it participates in the gamma-glutamyl cycle. Source: ISBN:0198506732
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0006749 at QuickGO
Subset: None
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subject	relation	object
glutathione metabolic process	is_a	organic substance metabolic process (GO:0071704)

subject	relation	object
glutathione deglycation (GO:0036531)	is_a	glutathione metabolic process
glutathione biosynthetic process (GO:0006750)	is_a	glutathione metabolic process
glutathione catabolic process (GO:0006751)	is_a	glutathione metabolic process
ascorbate glutathione cycle (GO:0033355)	is_a	glutathione metabolic process

glutathione metabolic process