Term Information

Accession
GO:0051066
Name
dihydrobiopterin metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
dihydropterin metabolic process, dihydropterin metabolism, 6,7-dihydrobiopterin metabolic process, 7,8-dihydrobiopterin metabolic process, dihydrobiopterin reduction
Alternate IDs
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Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving a dihydrobiopterin, a reduced pteridine derivative related to folic acid; it acts as an electron carrier in tyrosine biosynthesis and its quinoid form is produced by oxidation of tetrahydrobiopterin in several biological hydroxylation reactions. Source: PMID:2557335
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0051066 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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Parents of dihydrobiopterin metabolic process (GO:0051066)
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dihydrobiopterin metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  pteridine-containing compound metabolic process (GO:0042558)
Children of dihydrobiopterin metabolic process (GO:0051066)
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7,8-dihydroneopterin 3'-triphosphate biosynthetic process (GO:0035998) [is_a relation] is_a  dihydrobiopterin metabolic process
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