Category:GO:0033067 ! macrolide metabolic process

name: macrolide metabolic process
namespace: biological_process
def: "The chemical reactions and pathways involving macrolides, any of a large group of polyketide compounds that contain a large lactone ring with few or no double bonds and no nitrogen atoms, linked glycosidically to one or more sugar groups. The macrolides include the carbomycins, the erythromycins, oleandomycin, oligomycins, and the spiramycins, and act as antibiotics, mainly against Gram-positive bacteria." [ISBN:0198506732, PMID:17298179]
synonym: "macrolide metabolism" EXACT []
is_a: GO:0016999 ! antibiotic metabolic process
is_a: GO:0030638 ! polyketide metabolic process
is_a: GO:1901334 ! lactone metabolic process

AmiGO <GOterm>GO:0033067</GOterm>
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