Term Information

Accession
GO:0009445
Name
putrescine metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
putrescine metabolism
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving putrescine, 1,4-diaminobutane; putrescine can be formed by decarboxylation of ornithine and is the metabolic precursor of spermidine and spermine. Source: GOC:ai
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0009445 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of putrescine metabolic process (GO:0009445)
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putrescine metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  polyamine metabolic process (GO:0006595)
Children of putrescine metabolic process (GO:0009445)
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putrescine acetylation (GO:0032920) [is_a relation] is_a  putrescine metabolic process
putrescine biosynthetic process (GO:0009446) [is_a relation] is_a  putrescine metabolic process
putrescine catabolic process (GO:0009447) [is_a relation] is_a  putrescine metabolic process
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