Term Information

Accession
GO:0008215
Name
spermine metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
spermine metabolism
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving spermine, a polybasic amine found in human sperm, in ribosomes and in some viruses, which is involved in nucleic acid packaging. Synthesis is regulated by ornithine decarboxylase which plays a key role in control of DNA replication. Source: GOC:curators
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0008215 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of spermine metabolic process (GO:0008215)
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spermine metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  polyamine metabolic process (GO:0006595)
Children of spermine metabolic process (GO:0008215)
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arginine catabolic process to spermine (GO:0019548) [is_a relation] is_a  spermine metabolic process
spermine catabolic process (GO:0046208) [is_a relation] is_a  spermine metabolic process
spermine biosynthetic process (GO:0006597) [is_a relation] is_a  spermine metabolic process
spermine acetylation (GO:0032919) [is_a relation] is_a  spermine metabolic process
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