FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
FB2025_05 , released December 11, 2025
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Term heme metabolic process ID (Ontology) GO:0042168 (Gene Ontology)
Definition The chemical reactions and pathways involving heme, any compound of iron complexed in a porphyrin (tetrapyrrole) ring.[ ISBN:0124325653 ]
Also Known As "haem metabolic process" ; "haem metabolism" ; "heme metabolism"
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Genes (FBgn)  GO_BIOLOGICAL_PROCESS       1
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 heme metabolic process (all annotations which use CV term, excluding "NOT" statements)       1
     involved_in | heme metabolic process       1
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metabolic process
 |__pigment metabolic process________________________
tetrapyrrole metabolic process                       |
 |__porphyrin-containing compound metabolic process__|
                                                     heme metabolic process  16 rec.
                                                      |__heme biosynthetic process 15 rec.
                                                      |   |__heme A biosynthetic process 3 rec.
                                                      |   |__heme B biosynthetic process
                                                      |   |__heme C biosynthetic process
                                                      |   |__heme O biosynthetic process
                                                      |   |__siroheme biosynthetic process
                                                      |__heme catabolic process 1 rec.
                                                      |   |__heme a catabolic process
                                                      |   |__heme B catabolic process
                                                      |   |__heme C catabolic process
                                                      |   |__heme O catabolic process
                                                      |   |__siroheme catabolic process
                                                      |__heme oxidation 1 rec.
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Is a porphyrin-containing compound metabolic process
pigment metabolic process
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    "haem metabolism" EXACT
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Reactome:R-HSA-9707616 "Heme signaling"