Term Information

Accession
GO:0009246
Name
enterobacterial common antigen biosynthetic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
enterobacterial common antigen anabolism, enterobacterial common antigen biosynthesis, enterobacterial common antigen formation, enterobacterial common antigen synthesis
Alternate IDs
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Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of the enterobacterial common antigen, an acidic polysaccharide containing N-acetyl-D-glucosamine, N-acetyl-D-mannosaminouronic acid, and 4-acetamido-4,6-dideoxy-D-galactose. A major component of the cell wall outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria. Source: GOC:ma
Comment
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History
See term history for GO:0009246 at QuickGO
Subset
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Parents of enterobacterial common antigen biosynthetic process (GO:0009246)
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enterobacterial common antigen biosynthetic process [is_a relation] is_a  enterobacterial common antigen metabolic process (GO:0046378)
enterobacterial common antigen biosynthetic process [is_a relation] is_a  carbohydrate derivative biosynthetic process (GO:1901137)
enterobacterial common antigen biosynthetic process [is_a relation] is_a  polysaccharide biosynthetic process (GO:0000271)

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MetaCyc
ECASYN-PWY