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The chemical reactions and pathways involving L-fucose, 6-deoxy-L-galactose, a sugar that occurs in fucans, a class of polysaccharides in seaweeds, especially Fucus species, and in the cell wall matrix of higher plants. The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of fucose (6-deoxygalactose). The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of fucose (6-deoxygalactose). 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 involving fucose, or 6-deoxygalactose, which has two enantiomers, D-fucose and L-fucose. The chemical reactions and pathways involving monosaccharides, the simplest carbohydrates. They are polyhydric alcohols containing either an aldehyde or a keto group and between three to ten or more carbon atoms. They form the constitutional repeating units of oligo- and polysaccharides.

View Gene Ontology (GO) Term

GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: fucose metabolic process
Acc: GO:0006004
Aspect: Biological Process
Desc: The chemical reactions and pathways involving fucose, or 6-deoxygalactose, which has two enantiomers, D-fucose and L-fucose.
Synonyms:
  • fucose metabolism
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
   This term: 18 [Search]
   Term or descendants: 38 [Search]


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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0006004 - fucose metabolic process (interactive image map)
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