Term Information

Accession
GO:0046110
Name
xanthine metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
xanthine metabolism
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving xanthine, 2,6-dihydroxypurine, a purine formed in the metabolic breakdown of guanine but not present in nucleic acids. Source: GOC:go_curators
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0046110 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of xanthine metabolic process (GO:0046110)
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xanthine metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  purine nucleobase metabolic process (GO:0006144)
Children of xanthine metabolic process (GO:0046110)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
xanthine biosynthetic process (GO:0046111) [is_a relation] is_a  xanthine metabolic process
xanthine catabolic process (GO:0009115) [is_a relation] is_a  xanthine metabolic process
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