ornithine metabolic process
Biology
Narrower Group:
- arginine biosynthetic process via ornithine
- arginine catabolic process to ornithine
- L-alanine biosynthetic process via ornithine
- ornithine biosynthetic process
- ornithine catabolic process
- glutamate catabolic process to ornithine
Broader Group:
View entire collection »Synonym Term:
- ornithine metabolism
Description:
- The chemical reactions and pathways involving ornithine, an amino acid only rarely found in proteins, but which is important in living organisms as an intermediate in the reactions of the urea cycle and in arginine biosynthesis.
Identifier:
- GO:0006591
Data Source:
- gene_ontology.obo
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