Term Information

Accession
GO:0051872
Name
sphingosine catabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
(4E)-sphing-4-enine catabolic process, (4E)-sphing-4-enine catabolism, sphing-4-enine catabolic process, sphing-4-enine catabolism
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Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of sphingosine (sphing-4-enine), trans-D-erytho-2-amino-octadec-4-ene-1,3-diol, a long chain amino diol sphingoid base that occurs in most sphingolipids in animal tissues. Source: GOC:ai
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History
See term history for GO:0051872 at QuickGO
Subset
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Parents of sphingosine catabolic process (GO:0051872)
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sphingosine catabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  diol catabolic process (GO:0034313)
sphingosine catabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  sphingosine metabolic process (GO:0006670)
sphingosine catabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  sphingoid catabolic process (GO:0046521)

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