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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 involving any amino sugar, sugars containing an amino group in place of a hydroxyl group. The chemical reactions and pathways involving glucosamine (2-amino-2-deoxyglucopyranose), an aminodeoxysugar that occurs in combined form in chitin. The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of glucosamine (2-amino-2-deoxyglucopyranose), an aminodeoxysugar that occurs in combined form in chitin. The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of N-acetylglucosamine. The D isomer is a common structural unit of glycoproteins in plants, bacteria and animals; it is often the terminal sugar of an oligosaccharide moiety of a glycoprotein. The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of any amino sugar, sugars containing an amino group in place of a hydroxyl group.

View Gene Ontology (GO) Term

GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: glucosamine catabolic process
Acc: GO:0006043
Aspect: Biological Process
Desc: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of glucosamine (2-amino-2-deoxyglucopyranose), an aminodeoxysugar that occurs in combined form in chitin.
Synonyms:
  • glucosamine breakdown
  • glucosamine catabolism
  • chitosamine catabolic process
  • chitosamine catabolism
  • glucosamine degradation
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
   This term: 3 [Search]
   Term or descendants: 7 [Search]


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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0006043 - glucosamine catabolic process (interactive image map)
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