Category:GO:0006593 ! L-ornithine catabolic process

name: L-ornithine catabolic process
namespace: biological_process
def: "The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of L-ornithine, an amino acid only rarely found in proteins, but which is important in living organisms as an intermediate in the reactions of the urea cycle and in arginine biosynthesis." [GOC:jl, ISBN:0192801023]
synonym: "ornithine breakdown" EXACT []
synonym: "ornithine catabolism" EXACT []
synonym: "ornithine degradation" EXACT []
is_a: GO:0006591 ! ornithine metabolic process
is_a: GO:0170035 ! L-amino acid catabolic process
is_a: GO:0170044 ! non-proteinogenic amino acid catabolic process

AmiGO <GOterm>GO:0006593</GOterm>
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