Term Information

Accession
GO:0019605
Name
butyrate metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
butanoic acid metabolic process, butanoic acid metabolism, butyrate metabolism, butyric acid metabolic process, butyric acid metabolism
Alternate IDs
GO:0043437
Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving any butyrate, the anions of butyric acid (butanoic acid), a saturated, unbranched aliphatic acid. Source: ISBN:0198506732
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0019605 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of butyrate metabolic process (GO:0019605)
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butyrate metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  short-chain fatty acid metabolic process (GO:0046459)
Children of butyrate metabolic process (GO:0019605)
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glucose catabolic process to butyrate (GO:0030645) [is_a relation] is_a  butyrate metabolic process
butyrate catabolic process (GO:0046359) [is_a relation] is_a  butyrate metabolic process
butyrate biosynthetic process (GO:0046358) [is_a relation] is_a  butyrate metabolic process
glutamate catabolic process to butyrate (GO:0033508) [is_a relation] is_a  butyrate metabolic process
pentose catabolic process to butyrate (GO:1902698) [is_a relation] is_a  butyrate metabolic process
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