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Term Information

Accession
GO:0046493
Name
lipid A metabolic process
Ontology
biological_process
Synonyms
lipid A metabolism
Alternate IDs
None
Definition
The chemical reactions and pathways involving lipid A, the glycolipid group of bacterial lipopolysaccharides, consisting of four to six fatty acyl chains linked to two glucosamine residues. Further modifications of the backbone are common. Source: ISBN:0198506732, PMID:22216004, PMID:20974832
Comment
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History
See term history for GO:0046493 at QuickGO
Subset
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Parents of lipid A metabolic process (GO:0046493)
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lipid A metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  glycolipid metabolic process (GO:0006664)
lipid A metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  lipooligosaccharide metabolic process (GO:1901269)
lipid A metabolic process [is_a relation] is_a  phospholipid metabolic process (GO:0006644)
Children of lipid A metabolic process (GO:0046493)
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lipid A biosynthetic process (GO:0009245) [is_a relation] is_a  lipid A metabolic process
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