FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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Term spermine metabolic process ID (Ontology) GO:0008215 (Gene Ontology)
Definition The chemical reactions and pathways involving spermine, a polybasic amine found in human sperm, in ribosomes and in some viruses, which is involved in nucleic acid packaging. Synthesis is regulated by ornithine decarboxylase which plays a key role in control of DNA replication.
Also Known As "spermine metabolism"
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  biogenic amine metabolic process
   |__polyamine metabolic process
       |__spermine metabolic process  2 rec.
           |__arginine catabolic process to spermine
           |__spermine acetylation
           |__spermine biosynthetic process 2 rec.
           |__spermine catabolic process
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