FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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Term tetrapyrrole metabolic process ID (Ontology) GO:0033013 (Gene Ontology)
Definition The chemical reactions and pathways involving tetrapyrroles, natural pigments containing four pyrrole rings joined by one-carbon units linking position 2 of one pyrrole ring to position 5 of the next.
Also Known As "tetrapyrrole metabolism"
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   |__metabolic process
       |__tetrapyrrole metabolic process  18 rec.
           |__cobalamin metabolic process 2 rec.
           |   |__cobalamin biosynthetic process(+)
           |   |__cobalamin catabolic process
           |   |__regulation of cobalamin metabolic process(+)
           |__porphyrin-containing compound metabolic process 16 rec.
           |   |__chlorophyll metabolic process(+)
           |   |__heme metabolic process(+) 16 rec.
           |   |__porphyrin-containing compound biosynthetic process(+) 15 rec.
           |   |__porphyrin-containing compound catabolic process(+) 1 rec.
           |   |__protoporphyrinogen IX metabolic process(+) 1 rec.
           |   |__uroporphyrinogen III metabolic process(+) 2 rec.
           |__regulation of tetrapyrrole metabolic process
           |   |__regulation of chlorophyll metabolic process(+)
           |   |__regulation of cobalamin metabolic process(+)
           |   |__regulation of tetrapyrrole biosynthetic process(+)
           |   |__regulation of tetrapyrrole catabolic process(+)
           |__tetrapyrrole biosynthetic process 15 rec.
           |   |__cobalamin biosynthetic process(+)
           |   |__corrin biosynthetic process
           |   |__phycocyanobilin biosynthetic process
           |   |__phytochromobilin biosynthetic process
           |   |__porphyrin-containing compound biosynthetic process(+) 15 rec.
           |   |__regulation of tetrapyrrole biosynthetic process(+)
           |   |__tetrapyrrole biosynthetic process from glutamate(+)
           |   |__tetrapyrrole biosynthetic process from glycine and succinyl-CoA(+)
           |__tetrapyrrole catabolic process 1 rec.
               |__cobalamin catabolic process
               |__corrin catabolic process
               |__porphyrin-containing compound catabolic process(+) 1 rec.
               |__regulation of tetrapyrrole catabolic process(+)
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