Term Information

Accession
GO:0019858
Name
cytosine metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
cytosine metabolism
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving cytosine, 4-amino-2-hydroxypyrimidine, a pyrimidine derivative that is one of the five main bases found in nucleic acids; it occurs widely in cytidine derivatives. Source: GOC:ai
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0019858 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of cytosine metabolic process (GO:0019858)
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cytosine metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  pyrimidine nucleobase metabolic process (GO:0006206)
Children of cytosine metabolic process (GO:0019858)
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cytosine catabolic process (GO:0006209) [is_a relation] is_a  cytosine metabolic process
cytosine biosynthetic process (GO:0046089) [is_a relation] is_a  cytosine metabolic process
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