FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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Term mRNA metabolic process ID (Ontology) GO:0016071 (Gene Ontology)
Definition The chemical reactions and pathways involving mRNA, messenger RNA, which is responsible for carrying the coded genetic 'message', transcribed from DNA, to sites of protein assembly at the ribosomes.[ ISBN:0198506732 ]
Also Known As "mRNA metabolism"
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  nucleic acid metabolic process
   |__RNA metabolic process
       |__mRNA metabolic process  515 rec.
           |__cytosolic mRNA polyadenylation 3 rec.
           |__histone mRNA metabolic process 16 rec.
           |   |__histone mRNA catabolic process(+) 1 rec.
           |   |__mRNA 3'-end processing by stem-loop binding and cleavage 15 rec.
           |__mRNA catabolic process 138 rec.
           |   |__maternal mRNA clearance 3 rec.
           |   |__mitochondrial mRNA catabolic process(+) 4 rec.
           |   |__nuclear-transcribed mRNA catabolic process(+) 65 rec.
           |   |__polyadenylation-dependent mRNA catabolic process(+)
           |   |__polyuridylation-dependent mRNA catabolic process
           |__mRNA methylguanosine-cap decapping 9 rec.
           |   |__deadenylation-dependent decapping of nuclear-transcribed mRNA 7 rec.
           |   |__deadenylation-independent decapping of nuclear-transcribed mRNA(+) 6 rec.
           |__mRNA modification 11 rec.
           |   |__chloroplast mRNA modification
           |   |__mitochondrial mRNA modification
           |   |__mRNA pseudouridine synthesis 5 rec.
           |__mRNA processing 376 rec.
           |   |__7-methylguanosine mRNA capping 5 rec.
           |   |__chloroplast mRNA processing
           |   |__mitochondrial mRNA processing(+) 3 rec.
           |   |__mRNA 3'-end processing(+) 45 rec.
           |   |__mRNA splicing, via endonucleolytic cleavage and ligation
           |   |__mRNA splicing, via spliceosome(+) 321 rec.
           |   |__polycistronic mRNA processing
           |__mRNA transcription 7 rec.
               |__mRNA transcription by RNA polymerase II 6 rec.
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Reactome:R-HSA-111367 "SLBP independent Processing of Histone Pre-mRNAs"