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The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of monosaccharides, polyhydric alcohols containing either an aldehyde or a keto group and between three to ten or more carbon atoms. The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of galactose, the aldohexose galacto-hexose. The chemical reactions and pathways involving a hexose, any monosaccharide with a chain of six carbon atoms in the molecule. The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of galactose, via the intermediate UDP-galactose. The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of hexose, any monosaccharide with a chain of six carbon atoms in the molecule. The chemical reactions and pathways involving galactose, the aldohexose galacto-hexose. D-galactose is widely distributed in combined form in plants, animals and microorganisms as a constituent of oligo- and polysaccharides; it also occurs in galactolipids and as its glucoside in lactose and melibiose. The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of galactose, via the intermediate D-galactonate.

View Gene Ontology (GO) Term

GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: galactose catabolic process
Acc: GO:0019388
Aspect: Biological Process
Desc: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of galactose, the aldohexose galacto-hexose.
Synonyms:
  • galactose degradation
  • galactose breakdown
  • galactose catabolism
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
   This term: 15 [Search]
   Term or descendants: 22 [Search]


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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0019388 - galactose catabolic process (interactive image map)
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