FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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Term ornithine metabolic process ID (Ontology) GO:0006591 (Gene Ontology)
Definition The chemical reactions and pathways involving ornithine, an amino acid only rarely found in proteins, but which is important in living organisms as an intermediate in the reactions of the urea cycle and in arginine biosynthesis.[ ISBN:0192801023 ]
Also Known As "ornithine metabolism"
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Genes (FBgn)  GO_BIOLOGICAL_PROCESS       1
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     involved_in | ornithine metabolic process       1
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amino acid metabolic process
 |__non-proteinogenic amino acid metabolic process__
 |__alpha-amino acid metabolic process______________|
carboxylic acid metabolic process                   |
 |__non-proteinogenic amino acid metabolic process__|
 |__alpha-amino acid metabolic process______________|
                                                    ornithine metabolic process  1 rec.
                                                     |__L-alanine biosynthetic process via ornithine
                                                     |__L-glutamate catabolic process to ornithine
                                                     |__L-ornithine catabolic process
                                                     |   |__L-ornithine catabolic process via proline
                                                     |   |__L-ornithine catabolic process, by decarboxylation
                                                     |__ornithine biosynthetic process
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Is a non-proteinogenic amino acid metabolic process
alpha-amino acid metabolic process
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