FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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Term sterol metabolic process ID (Ontology) GO:0016125 (Gene Ontology)
Definition The chemical reactions and pathways involving sterols, steroids with one or more hydroxyl groups and a hydrocarbon side-chain in the molecule.[ ISBN:0198547684 ]
Also Known As "sterol metabolism"
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Genes (FBgn)  GO_BIOLOGICAL_PROCESS       3
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 sterol metabolic process (all annotations which use CV term, excluding "NOT" statements)       3
     involved_in | sterol metabolic process       3
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  lipid metabolic process
   |__steroid metabolic process
       |__sterol metabolic process  29 rec.
           |__cholesterol metabolic process 6 rec.
           |   |__cholesterol biosynthetic process(+) 3 rec.
           |   |__cholesterol catabolic process
           |   |__cholesterol ester hydrolysis involved in cholesterol transport
           |__ecdysone metabolic process 14 rec.
           |   |__ecdysone biosynthetic process 12 rec.
           |   |__ecdysone catabolic process
           |__ergosterol metabolic process
           |   |__ergosterol biosynthetic process
           |__sterol biosynthetic process 21 rec.
           |   |__cholesterol biosynthetic process(+) 3 rec.
           |   |__ecdysone biosynthetic process 12 rec.
           |   |__ergosterol biosynthetic process
           |   |__zymosterol biosynthetic process
           |__sterol catabolic process
           |   |__cholesterol catabolic process
           |   |__ecdysone catabolic process
           |__zymosterol metabolic process
               |__zymosterol biosynthetic process
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Is a steroid metabolic process
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Reactome:R-HSA-211976 "Endogenous sterols"