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Term Information

Accession
GO:0009853
Name
photorespiration
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
photorespiratory pathway
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
A light-dependent catabolic process occurring concomitantly with photosynthesis in plants (especially C3 plants) whereby dioxygen (O2) is consumed and carbon dioxide (CO2) is evolved. The substrate is glycolate formed in large quantities in chloroplasts from 2-phosphoglycolate generated from ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate by the action of ribulose-bisphosphate carboxylase; the glycolate enters the peroxisomes where it is converted by glycolate oxidase to glyoxylate which undergoes transamination to glycine. This then passes into the mitochondria where it is decarboxylated forming one molecule of serine for every two molecules of glycine. This pathway also exists in photosynthetic bacteria. Source: ISBN:0198506732
Comment
None
History
See term history for GO:0009853 at QuickGO
Subset
None
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Parents of photorespiration (GO:0009853)
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photorespiration [is_a relation] is_a  cellular metabolic compound salvage (GO:0043094)
Children of photorespiration (GO:0009853)
subject[Reorder by subject] relation[Reorder by relation] object[Reorder by object]
oxidative photosynthetic carbon pathway (GO:0009854) [BFO:0000050 relation] BFO:0000050  photorespiration
regulation of photorespiration (GO:0080093) [RO:0002211 relation] RO:0002211  photorespiration
MetaCyc
PWY-181
Wikipedia
Photorespiration