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Category:GO:0006778 ! porphyrin-containing compound metabolic process
name: porphyrin-containing compound metabolic process
namespace: biological_process
def: "The chemical reactions and pathways involving any member of a large group of derivatives or analogs of porphyrin. Porphyrins consists of a ring of four pyrrole nuclei linked each to the next at their alpha positions through a methine group." [GOC:jl, ISBN:0198506732, Wikipedia:Porphyrin#Natural_formation]
synonym: "porphyrin metabolic process" RELATED []
synonym: "porphyrin metabolism" RELATED []
is_a: GO:0033013 ! tetrapyrrole metabolic process
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<GOterm>GO:0006778</GOterm>
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