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Category:GO:0046501 ! protoporphyrinogen IX metabolic process
name: protoporphyrinogen IX metabolic process
namespace: biological_process
def: "The chemical reactions and pathways involving protoporphyrinogen IX, the specific substrate for the enzyme ferrochelatase, which catalyzes the insertion of iron to form protoheme. It is probably also the substrate for chlorophyll formation." [ISBN:0198506732]
comment: See also the molecular function term 'ferrochelatase activity ; GO:0004325'.
synonym: "protoporphyrinogen IX metabolism" EXACT []
is_a: GO:0006778 ! porphyrin-containing compound metabolic process
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<GOterm>GO:0046501</GOterm>
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