Term Information

Accession
GO:0046083
Name
adenine metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
adenine metabolism
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving adenine, 6-aminopurine, one of the five main bases found in nucleic acids and a component of numerous important derivatives of its corresponding ribonucleoside, adenosine. Source: GOC:go_curators
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0046083 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of adenine metabolic process (GO:0046083)
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adenine metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  purine nucleobase metabolic process (GO:0006144)
Children of adenine metabolic process (GO:0046083)
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adenine biosynthetic process (GO:0046084) [is_a relation] is_a  adenine metabolic process
adenine catabolic process (GO:0006146) [is_a relation] is_a  adenine metabolic process
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