FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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Term cholesterol metabolic process ID (Ontology) GO:0008203 (Gene Ontology)
Definition The chemical reactions and pathways involving cholesterol, cholest-5-en-3 beta-ol, the principal sterol of vertebrates and the precursor of many steroids, including bile acids and steroid hormones. It is a component of the plasma membrane lipid bilayer and of plasma lipoproteins and can be found in all animal tissues.[ ISBN:0198506732 ]
Also Known As "cholesterol metabolism"
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Genes (FBgn)  GO_BIOLOGICAL_PROCESS       3
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 cholesterol metabolic process (all annotations which use CV term, excluding "NOT" statements)       3
     involved_in | cholesterol metabolic process       3
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alcohol metabolic process
 |__secondary alcohol metabolic process__
steroid metabolic process                |
 |__sterol metabolic process_____________|
                                         cholesterol metabolic process  6 rec.
                                          |__cholesterol biosynthetic process 3 rec.
                                          |   |__cholesterol biosynthetic process via 24,25-dihydrolanosterol
                                          |   |__cholesterol biosynthetic process via desmosterol
                                          |   |__cholesterol biosynthetic process via lathosterol
                                          |__cholesterol catabolic process
                                          |__cholesterol ester hydrolysis involved in cholesterol transport
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Is a sterol metabolic process
secondary alcohol metabolic process
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