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| Term | urea cycle | ID (Ontology) | GO:0000050 (Gene Ontology) |
| Definition | The sequence of reactions by which arginine is synthesized from ornithine, then cleaved to yield urea and regenerate ornithine. The overall reaction equation is NH3 + CO2 + aspartate + 3 ATP + 2 H2O = urea + fumarate + 2 ADP + 2 phosphate + AMP + diphosphate.[ ISBN:0198506732 ] | ||
| Also Known As | "ornithine cycle" ; "urea biosynthesis" ; "urea biosynthetic process" | ||
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biosynthetic process |__amide biosynthetic process____ amide metabolic process | |__urea metabolic process________| |__amide biosynthetic process____| small molecule metabolic process | |__urea metabolic process________| nitrogen cycle metabolic process | |__urea metabolic process________| urea cycle 2 rec. |
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Reactome:R-HSA-70635 "Urea cycle" Wikipedia:Urea_cycle |
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