Term Information

Accession
GO:0009437
Name
carnitine metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
carnitine metabolism, vitamin Bt metabolic process, vitamin Bt metabolism
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving carnitine (hydroxy-trimethyl aminobutyric acid), a compound that participates in the transfer of acyl groups across the inner mitochondrial membrane. Source: ISBN:0198506732, GOC:jl
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0009437 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of carnitine metabolic process (GO:0009437)
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carnitine metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  amino-acid betaine metabolic process (GO:0006577)
Children of carnitine metabolic process (GO:0009437)
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carnitine catabolic process (GO:0042413) [is_a relation] is_a  carnitine metabolic process
carnitine biosynthetic process (GO:0045329) [is_a relation] is_a  carnitine metabolic process
carnitine metabolic process, CoA-linked (GO:0019254) [is_a relation] is_a  carnitine metabolic process
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