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Term Information

Accession
GO:0009233
Name
menaquinone metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
menaquinone metabolism, menatetrenone metabolic process, menatetrenone metabolism, multiprenylmenaquinone metabolic process, multiprenylmenaquinone metabolism, vitamin K2 metabolic process, vitamin K2 metabolism
Alternate IDs
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Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving any of the menaquinones, quinone-derived compounds synthesized by intestinal bacteria. Structurally, menaquinones consist of a methylated naphthoquinone ring structure and side chains composed of a variable number of unsaturated isoprenoid residues. Menaquinones have vitamin K activity and are known as vitamin K2. Source: GOC:jl, http://www.dentistry.leeds.ac.uk/biochem/thcme/vitamins.html#k
Comment
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History
See term history for GO:0009233 at QuickGO
Subset
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Parents of menaquinone metabolic process (GO:0009233)
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menaquinone metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  quinone metabolic process (GO:1901661)
Children of menaquinone metabolic process (GO:0009233)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
menaquinone biosynthetic process (GO:0009234) [is_a relation] is_a  menaquinone metabolic process
menaquinone catabolic process (GO:0042361) [is_a relation] is_a  menaquinone metabolic process
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