Planteome: Term Details for "lipopolysaccharide metabolic process" (GO:0008653)

Accession: GO:0008653
Name: lipopolysaccharide metabolic process
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: LPS metabolic process, lipopolysaccharide metabolism
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways involving lipopolysaccharides, a group of related, structurally complex components of the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria. Lipopolysaccharides consist three covalently linked regions, lipid A, core oligosaccharide, and an O side chain. Lipid A is responsible for the toxicity of the lipopolysaccharide. Source: ISBN:0198506732
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0008653 at QuickGO
Subset: None
Related: Link to all annotated objects annotated to lipopolysaccharide metabolic process.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to lipopolysaccharide metabolic process.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for lipopolysaccharide metabolic process.
Feedback: Comments, changes to terms, or requests for new ontology terms can be made at GO issue tracker on GitHub.

subject	relation	object
lipopolysaccharide metabolic process	is_a	macromolecule metabolic process (GO:0043170)
lipopolysaccharide metabolic process	is_a	liposaccharide metabolic process (GO:1903509)

subject	relation	object
lipopolysaccharide core region metabolic process (GO:0046401)	BFO:0000050	lipopolysaccharide metabolic process
lipopolysaccharide biosynthetic process (GO:0009103)	is_a	lipopolysaccharide metabolic process
lipopolysaccharide catabolic process (GO:0009104)	is_a	lipopolysaccharide metabolic process

lipopolysaccharide metabolic process