Category:GO:0030655 ! beta-lactam antibiotic catabolic process

name: beta-lactam antibiotic catabolic process
namespace: biological_process
def: "The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of a beta-lactam antibiotic, any member of a class of natural or semisynthetic antibiotics whose characteristic feature is a strained, four-membered beta-lactam ring. They include the penicillins and many of the cephalosporins." [GOC:mah, ISBN:0198506732]
subset: gosubset_prok
synonym: "beta-lactam antibiotic breakdown" EXACT []
synonym: "beta-lactam antibiotic catabolism" EXACT []
synonym: "beta-lactam antibiotic degradation" EXACT []
is_a: GO:0017001 ! antibiotic catabolic process
is_a: GO:0030653 ! beta-lactam antibiotic metabolic process
is_a: GO:0072340 ! cellular lactam catabolic process

AmiGO

Child Terms

This term has only the following child term.

• [+] GO:0042317 ! penicillin catabolic process (3)

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