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Category:GO:0006787 ! porphyrin-containing compound catabolic process
name: porphyrin-containing compound catabolic process
namespace: biological_process
def: "The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of any member of a large group of derivatives or analogs of porphyrin. Porphyrin 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]
synonym: "porphyrin breakdown" RELATED []
synonym: "porphyrin catabolic process" RELATED []
synonym: "porphyrin catabolism" RELATED []
synonym: "porphyrin degradation" RELATED []
is_a: GO:0006778 ! porphyrin-containing compound metabolic process
is_a: GO:0033015 ! tetrapyrrole catabolic process
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<GOterm>GO:0006787</GOterm>
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