FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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Term porphyrin-containing compound metabolic process ID (Ontology) GO:0006778 (Gene Ontology)
Definition 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.[ ISBN:0198506732 ]
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  metabolic process
   |__tetrapyrrole metabolic process
       |__porphyrin-containing compound metabolic process  16 rec.
           |__chlorophyll metabolic process
           |   |__chlorophyll biosynthetic process(+)
           |   |__chlorophyll catabolic process(+)
           |   |__chlorophyll cycle
           |   |__regulation of chlorophyll metabolic process(+)
           |__heme metabolic process 16 rec.
           |   |__heme biosynthetic process(+) 15 rec.
           |   |__heme catabolic process(+) 1 rec.
           |   |__heme oxidation 1 rec.
           |__porphyrin-containing compound biosynthetic process 15 rec.
           |   |__chlorophyll biosynthetic process(+)
           |   |__heme biosynthetic process(+) 15 rec.
           |   |__protoporphyrinogen IX biosynthetic process(+) 1 rec.
           |   |__succinyl-CoA pathway
           |   |__uroporphyrinogen III biosynthetic process(+) 2 rec.
           |__porphyrin-containing compound catabolic process 1 rec.
           |   |__bilirubin conjugation
           |   |__chlorophyll catabolic process(+)
           |   |__heme catabolic process(+) 1 rec.
           |   |__heme oxidation 1 rec.
           |__protoporphyrinogen IX metabolic process 1 rec.
           |   |__protoporphyrinogen IX biosynthetic process(+) 1 rec.
           |__uroporphyrinogen III metabolic process 2 rec.
               |__uroporphyrinogen III biosynthetic process(+) 2 rec.
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Is a tetrapyrrole metabolic process
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  • "porphyrin metabolic process" RELATED
    "porphyrin metabolism" RELATED
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Reactome:R-HSA-189445 "Metabolism of porphyrins"