Term Information

Accession
GO:0009115
Name
xanthine catabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
xanthine breakdown, xanthine catabolism, xanthine degradation, xanthine oxidation
Alternate IDs
GO:0006151
Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of xanthine, 2,6-dihydroxypurine, a purine formed in the metabolic breakdown of guanine but not present in nucleic acids. Source: GOC:go_curators
Comment
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History
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Subset
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Parents of xanthine catabolic process (GO:0009115)
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xanthine catabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  purine nucleobase catabolic process (GO:0006145)
xanthine catabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  xanthine metabolic process (GO:0046110)

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