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Term Information

Accession
GO:0006670
Name
sphingosine metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
(4E)-sphing-4-enine metabolic process, (4E)-sphing-4-enine metabolism, sphing-4-enine metabolic process, sphing-4-enine metabolism, sphingosine metabolism
Alternate IDs
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Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving 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: ISBN:0198506732, GOC:ma
Comment
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History
See term history for GO:0006670 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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Parents of sphingosine metabolic process (GO:0006670)
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sphingosine metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  sphingoid metabolic process (GO:0046519)
sphingosine metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  diol metabolic process (GO:0034311)
Children of sphingosine metabolic process (GO:0006670)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
sphingosine catabolic process (GO:0051872) [is_a relation] is_a  sphingosine metabolic process
sphingosine biosynthetic process (GO:0046512) [is_a relation] is_a  sphingosine metabolic process
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