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O antigen metabolic process

Term Information

Accession
GO:0046402
Name
O antigen metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
O antigen metabolism
Alternate IDs
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Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving the O side chain of a lipopolysaccharide, which determines the antigenic specificity of the organism. It is made up of about 50 repeating units of a branched tetrasaccharide. Source: ISBN:0198506732
Comment
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History
See term history for GO:0046402 at QuickGO
Subset
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Parents of O antigen metabolic process (GO:0046402)
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O antigen metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  polysaccharide metabolic process (GO:0005976)
Children of O antigen metabolic process (GO:0046402)
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O antigen biosynthetic process (GO:0009243) [is_a relation] is_a  O antigen metabolic process
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