Category:GO:0009310 ! amine catabolic process

name: amine catabolic process
namespace: biological_process
def: "The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of any organic compound that is weakly basic in character and contains an amino or a substituted amino group. Amines are called primary, secondary, or tertiary according to whether one, two, or three carbon atoms are attached to the nitrogen atom." [GOC:jl, ISBN:0198506732]
subset: gosubset_prok
synonym: "amine breakdown" EXACT []
synonym: "amine catabolism" EXACT []
synonym: "amine degradation" EXACT []
is_a: GO:0009056 ! catabolic process
is_a: GO:0009308 ! amine metabolic process

AmiGO

Child Terms

This term has the following 9 child terms, out of 9 total.

• [+] GO:0009063 ! cellular amino acid catabolic process (17)
• [  ] GO:0019529 ! taurine catabolic process
• [+] GO:0033241 ! regulation of cellular amine catabolic process (3)
• [+] GO:0033242 ! negative regulation of cellular amine catabolic process (1)
• [+] GO:0033243 ! positive regulation of cellular amine catabolic process (1)
• [  ] GO:0042402 ! biogenic amine catabolic process
• [+] GO:0042402 ! cellular biogenic amine catabolic process (10)
• [  ] GO:0046267 ! triethanolamine catabolic process
• [  ] GO:0051872 ! sphingosine catabolic process