Term Information

Accession
GO:0070397
Name
wall teichoic acid metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
WTA metabolic process, wall teichoic acid metabolism
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving wall teichoic acid, which is a major component of the cell wall of Gram-positive bacteria and typically consists of a polymer of glycerol-phosphate or ribitol-phosphate to which are attached glycosyl and D-alanyl ester residues and which is covalently linked to peptidoglycan. Source: PMID:16020688, PMID:14665680, GOC:add
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0070397 at QuickGO
Subset
None
Feedback
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Parents of wall teichoic acid metabolic process (GO:0070397)
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wall teichoic acid metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  teichoic acid metabolic process (GO:0046374)
Children of wall teichoic acid metabolic process (GO:0070397)
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wall teichoic acid biosynthetic process (GO:0070398) [is_a relation] is_a  wall teichoic acid metabolic process
wall teichoic acid catabolic process (GO:0070399) [is_a relation] is_a  wall teichoic acid metabolic process
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