Term Information

Accession
GO:0019530
Name
taurine metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
taurine metabolism
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving taurine (2-aminoethanesulfonic acid), a sulphur-containing amino acid derivative important in the metabolism of fats. Source: ISBN:0198600461, GOC:jl
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0019530 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of taurine metabolic process (GO:0019530)
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taurine metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  alkanesulfonate metabolic process (GO:0019694)
taurine metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  organonitrogen compound metabolic process (GO:1901564)
Children of taurine metabolic process (GO:0019530)
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L-cysteine catabolic process to taurine (GO:0019452) [is_a relation] is_a  taurine metabolic process
taurine catabolic process (GO:0019529) [is_a relation] is_a  taurine metabolic process
taurine biosynthetic process (GO:0042412) [is_a relation] is_a  taurine metabolic process
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