Category:GO:0006098 ! pentose-phosphate shunt

name: pentose-phosphate shunt
namespace: biological_process
def: "The metabolic process in which glucose-6-phosphate is oxidized to form carbon dioxide (CO2) and ribulose 5-phosphate, coupled to reduction of NADP+ to NADPH; ribulose 5-P then enters a series of reactions that can yield biosynthetic precursors (ribose-5-phosphate and erythrose-4-phosphate) and glycolytic intermediates (fructose-6-phosphate and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate)." [GOC:pde, ISBN:0198506732, MetaCyc:PENTOSE-P-PWY]
synonym: "hexose monophosphate pathway" EXACT []
synonym: "pentose phosphate pathway" EXACT []
synonym: "pentose phosphate shunt" EXACT []
synonym: "pentose-phosphate pathway" EXACT []
xref: KEGG_PATHWAY:map00030
xref: MetaCyc:PENTOSE-P-PWY
xref: Wikipedia:Pentose_phosphate_pathway
is_a: GO:0006740 ! NADPH regeneration
is_a: GO:0051156 ! glucose 6-phosphate metabolic process
relationship: has_part: GO:0009051 ! pentose-phosphate shunt, oxidative branch
relationship: has_part: GO:0009052 ! pentose-phosphate shunt, non-oxidative branch

AmiGO <GOterm>GO:0006098</GOterm>
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