Term Information

Accession
GO:0046459
Name
short-chain fatty acid metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
short-chain fatty acid metabolism
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving a fatty acid with an aliphatic tail of less than 6 carbons. Source: Wikipedia:Fatty_acid_metabolism
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0046459 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of short-chain fatty acid metabolic process (GO:0046459)
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short-chain fatty acid metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  fatty acid metabolic process (GO:0006631)
Children of short-chain fatty acid metabolic process (GO:0046459)
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glutamate catabolic process to 4-hydroxybutyrate (GO:0036241) [is_a relation] is_a  short-chain fatty acid metabolic process
short-chain fatty acid biosynthetic process (GO:0051790) [is_a relation] is_a  short-chain fatty acid metabolic process
2-oxobutyrate metabolic process (GO:0046361) [is_a relation] is_a  short-chain fatty acid metabolic process
acetoacetic acid metabolic process (GO:0043438) [is_a relation] is_a  short-chain fatty acid metabolic process
butyrate metabolic process (GO:0019605) [is_a relation] is_a  short-chain fatty acid metabolic process
propionate metabolic process (GO:0019541) [is_a relation] is_a  short-chain fatty acid metabolic process
short-chain fatty acid catabolic process (GO:0019626) [is_a relation] is_a  short-chain fatty acid metabolic process
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