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cyanide metabolic process

Term Information

Accession
GO:0019499
Name
cyanide metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
cyanide metabolism
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving cyanide, NC-, the anion of hydrocyanic acid. Cyanide is a potent inhibitor of respiration, reacting with the ferric form of cytochrome aa3 and thus blocking the electron transport chain. Source: ISBN:0198506732
Comment
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History
See term history for GO:0019499 at QuickGO
Subset
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Parents of cyanide metabolic process (GO:0019499)
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cyanide metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  cellular nitrogen compound metabolic process (GO:0034641)
cyanide metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  organic substance metabolic process (GO:0071704)
Children of cyanide metabolic process (GO:0019499)
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cyanide catabolic process (GO:0019500) [is_a relation] is_a  cyanide metabolic process
cyanide biosynthetic process (GO:0046202) [is_a relation] is_a  cyanide metabolic process
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