Category:GO:0006768 ! biotin metabolic process

name: biotin metabolic process
namespace: biological_process
def: "The chemical reactions and pathways involving biotin, cis-tetrahydro-2-oxothieno(3,4-d)imidazoline-4-valeric acid; the (+) enantiomer is very widely distributed in cells and serves as a carrier in a number of enzymatic beta-carboxylation reactions." [ISBN:0198506732]
subset: gosubset_prok
synonym: "biotin metabolism" EXACT []
synonym: "vitamin B7 metabolic process" EXACT []
synonym: "vitamin B7 metabolism" EXACT []
synonym: "vitamin H metabolic process" EXACT []
synonym: "vitamin H metabolism" EXACT []
xref: Reactome:REACT_101854 "Biotin metabolism, Canis familiaris"
xref: Reactome:REACT_102636 "Biotin metabolism, Staphylococcus aureus N315"
xref: Reactome:REACT_106307 "Biotin metabolism, Mus musculus"
xref: Reactome:REACT_110021 "Biotin metabolism, Taeniopygia guttata"
xref: Reactome:REACT_11153 "Biotin metabolism, Homo sapiens"
xref: Reactome:REACT_31380 "Biotin metabolism, Xenopus tropicalis"
xref: Reactome:REACT_34499 "Biotin metabolism, Rattus norvegicus"
xref: Reactome:REACT_81229 "Biotin metabolism, Danio rerio"
xref: Reactome:REACT_88569 "Biotin metabolism, Bos taurus"
xref: Reactome:REACT_88585 "Biotin metabolism, Sus scrofa"
xref: Wikipedia:Biotin
is_a: GO:0006767 ! water-soluble vitamin metabolic process
is_a: GO:0006790 ! sulfur compound metabolic process
is_a: GO:0032787 ! monocarboxylic acid metabolic process
is_a: GO:0043603 ! cellular amide metabolic process
is_a: GO:0046483 ! heterocycle metabolic process
is_a: GO:0051186 ! cofactor metabolic process

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Child Terms

This term has the following 2 child terms, out of 2 total.

• [+] GO:0009102 ! biotin biosynthetic process (1)
• [  ] GO:0042367 ! biotin catabolic process