FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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Term vitamin metabolic process ID (Ontology) GO:0006766 (Gene Ontology)
Definition The chemical reactions and pathways involving vitamins. Vitamin is a general term for a number of unrelated organic substances that occur in many foods in small amounts and that are necessary in trace amounts for the normal metabolic functioning of the body. Vitamins may be water-soluble or fat-soluble and usually serve as components of coenzyme systems.
Also Known As "vitamin metabolism"
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  metabolic process
   |__small molecule metabolic process
       |__vitamin metabolic process  11 rec.
           |__regulation of vitamin metabolic process
           |   |__negative regulation of vitamin metabolic process(+)
           |   |__positive regulation of vitamin metabolic process(+)
           |   |__regulation of L-ascorbic acid biosynthetic process(+)
           |   |__regulation of retinoic acid biosynthetic process(+)
           |   |__regulation of thiamine biosynthetic process(+)
           |   |__regulation of thiamine diphosphate biosynthetic process(+)
           |   |__regulation of vitamin D biosynthetic process(+)
           |   |__regulation of vitamin E biosynthetic process(+)
           |__vitamin biosynthetic process 10 rec.
           |   |__fat-soluble vitamin biosynthetic process(+) 2 rec.
           |   |__water-soluble vitamin biosynthetic process(+) 8 rec.
           |__vitamin catabolic process 1 rec.
               |__fat-soluble vitamin catabolic process(+) 1 rec.
               |__water-soluble vitamin catabolic process(+)
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Reactome:R-HSA-211916 "Vitamins"