Planteome: Term Details for "melanin metabolic process" (GO:0006582)

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Accession: GO:0006582
Name: melanin metabolic process
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: melanin metabolism
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways involving melanins, pigments largely of animal origin. High molecular weight polymers of indole quinone, they are irregular polymeric structures and are divided into three groups: allomelanins in the plant kingdom and eumelanins and phaeomelanins in the animal kingdom. Source: GOC:go_curators
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0006582 at QuickGO
Subset: None
Related: Link to all annotated objects annotated to melanin metabolic process.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to melanin metabolic process.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for melanin metabolic process.
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BFO:0000001 entity
BFO:0000003 occurrent
BFO:0000015 process
GO:0008150 biological_process
GO:0009987 cellular process
GO:0008152 metabolic process
GO:0044237 cellular metabolic process
GO:0071704 organic substance metabolic process
GO:0006725 cellular aromatic compound metabolic process
GO:1901360 organic cyclic compound metabolic process
GO:1901615 organic hydroxy compound metabolic process
GO:0018958 phenol-containing compound metabolic process
GO:0042440 pigment metabolic process
GO:0019748 secondary metabolic process
GO:0006582 melanin metabolic process
GO:0042438 melanin biosynthetic process
GO:0046150 melanin catabolic process
GO:0035006 melanization defense response

Parents of melanin metabolic process (GO:0006582)

subject	relation	object
melanin metabolic process	is_a	pigment metabolic process (GO:0042440)
melanin metabolic process	is_a	phenol-containing compound metabolic process (GO:0018958)
melanin metabolic process	is_a	secondary metabolic process (GO:0019748)

Children of melanin metabolic process (GO:0006582)

subject	relation	object
melanin biosynthetic process (GO:0042438)	is_a	melanin metabolic process
melanization defense response (GO:0035006)	is_a	melanin metabolic process
melanin catabolic process (GO:0046150)	is_a	melanin metabolic process

melanin metabolic process

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Parents of melanin metabolic process (GO:0006582)

Children of melanin metabolic process (GO:0006582)

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