FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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Term aromatic amino acid metabolic process ID (Ontology) GO:0009072 (Gene Ontology)
Definition The chemical reactions and pathways involving aromatic amino acid family, amino acids with aromatic ring (phenylalanine, tyrosine, tryptophan).
Also Known As "aromatic amino acid family metabolic process" ; "aromatic amino acid family metabolism"
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Genes (FBgn)  GO_BIOLOGICAL_PROCESS       8
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 aromatic amino acid metabolic process (all annotations which use CV term, excluding "NOT" statements)       8
     involved_in | aromatic amino acid metabolic process       8
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oxoacid metabolic process
 |__carboxylic acid metabolic process__
primary metabolic process              |
 |__amino acid metabolic process_______|
                                       aromatic amino acid metabolic process  28 rec.
                                        |__anthranilate metabolic process
                                        |   |__anaerobic 2-aminobenzoate metabolic process
                                        |   |__anthranilate catabolic process
                                        |__aromatic amino acid family biosynthetic process 1 rec.
                                        |   |__4-aminobenzoate biosynthetic process
                                        |   |__aromatic amino acid family biosynthetic process, prephenate pathway(+) 1 rec.
                                        |   |__L-dopa biosynthetic process
                                        |   |__L-histidine biosynthetic process
                                        |   |__L-tryptophan biosynthetic process
                                        |__aromatic amino acid family catabolic process 17 rec.
                                        |   |__anthranilate catabolic process
                                        |   |__aromatic amino acid family catabolic process to alcohol via Ehrlich pathway
                                        |   |__aromatic amino acid family catabolic process to carboxylic acid via Ehrlich pathway
                                        |   |__D-tyrosine catabolic process
                                        |   |__L-histidine catabolic process(+) 1 rec.
                                        |   |__L-phenylalanine catabolic process(+) 7 rec.
                                        |   |__L-tryptophan catabolic process(+) 8 rec.
                                        |   |__L-tyrosine catabolic process(+) 3 rec.
                                        |__L-dopa metabolic process
                                        |   |__L-dopa biosynthetic process
                                        |__L-histidine metabolic process 1 rec.
                                        |   |__L-histidine biosynthetic process
                                        |   |__L-histidine catabolic process(+) 1 rec.
                                        |__L-phenylalanine metabolic process 7 rec.
                                        |   |__L-phenylalanine biosynthetic process(+)
                                        |   |__L-phenylalanine catabolic process(+) 7 rec.
                                        |__L-tryptophan metabolic process 9 rec.
                                        |   |__'de novo' NAD+ biosynthetic process from L-tryptophan
                                        |   |__indoleacetic acid biosynthetic process via tryptophan
                                        |   |__L-tryptophan biosynthetic process
                                        |   |__L-tryptophan catabolic process(+) 8 rec.
                                        |   |__psilocybin biosynthetic process
                                        |__nicotinate nucleotide biosynthetic process from tryptophan
                                        |__para-aminobenzoic acid metabolic process
                                        |   |__4-aminobenzoate biosynthetic process
                                        |__serotonin biosynthetic process from tryptophan 3 rec.
                                        |__tyrosine metabolic process 14 rec.
                                            |__dopamine biosynthetic process from tyrosine 2 rec.
                                            |__L-tyrosine biosynthetic process(+) 1 rec.
                                            |__L-tyrosine catabolic process(+) 3 rec.
                                            |__melanin biosynthetic process from tyrosine 5 rec.
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Is a amino acid metabolic process
carboxylic acid metabolic process
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  • "aromatic amino acid family metabolic process" EXACT
    "aromatic amino acid family metabolism" EXACT
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Reactome:R-HSA-8963691 "Phenylalanine and tyrosine metabolism"