Planteome: Term Details for "cholesterol metabolic process" (GO:0008203)

Accession: GO:0008203
Name: cholesterol metabolic process
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: cholesterol metabolism
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways involving cholesterol, cholest-5-en-3 beta-ol, the principal sterol of vertebrates and the precursor of many steroids, including bile acids and steroid hormones. It is a component of the plasma membrane lipid bilayer and of plasma lipoproteins and can be found in all animal tissues. Source: ISBN:0198506732
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0008203 at QuickGO
Subset: None
Related: Link to all annotated objects annotated to cholesterol metabolic process.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to cholesterol metabolic process.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for cholesterol metabolic process.
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subject	relation	object
cholesterol metabolic process	is_a	secondary alcohol metabolic process (GO:1902652)
cholesterol metabolic process	is_a	sterol metabolic process (GO:0016125)

subject	relation	object
cholesterol biosynthetic process (GO:0006695)	is_a	cholesterol metabolic process
positive regulation of cholesterol metabolic process (GO:0090205)	RO:0002213	cholesterol metabolic process
cholesterol catabolic process (GO:0006707)	is_a	cholesterol metabolic process
cholesterol ester hydrolysis involved in cholesterol transport (GO:0090122)	is_a	cholesterol metabolic process
negative regulation of cholesterol metabolic process (GO:0090206)	RO:0002212	cholesterol metabolic process
peptidyl-glycine cholesteryl ester biosynthesis from peptidyl-glycine (GO:0019708)	is_a	cholesterol metabolic process
regulation of cholesterol metabolic process (GO:0090181)	RO:0002211	cholesterol metabolic process

cholesterol metabolic process