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The chemical reactions and pathways involving lipids, compounds soluble in an organic solvent but not, or sparingly, in an aqueous solvent. Includes fatty acids; neutral fats, other fatty-acid esters, and soaps; long-chain (fatty) alcohols and waxes; sphingoids and other long-chain bases; glycolipids, phospholipids and sphingolipids; and carotenes, polyprenols, sterols, terpenes and other isoprenoids. The chemical reactions and pathways involving prenols, isoprenoids of general formula (H-CH2-C(CH3)=CH-CH2-)n-OH, any primary monohydroxy alcohol whose carbon skeleton consists of two or more isoprenoid residues linked head to tail. The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of any isoprenoid compound, isoprene (2-methylbuta-1,3-diene) or compounds containing or derived from linked isoprene (3-methyl-2-butenylene) residues. Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways involving isoprenoids. The chemical reactions and pathways involving terpenes, any of a large group of hydrocarbons that are made up of isoprene (C5H8) units which may be cyclic, acyclic or multicyclic, saturated or unsaturated, and may contain various functional groups. The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of any isoprenoid compound, isoprene (2-methylbuta-1,3-diene) or compounds containing or derived from linked isoprene (3-methyl-2-butenylene) residues. Any process that stops, prevents or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways involving isoprenoid. Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways involving isoprenoid. The chemical reactions and pathways involving any of the vitamin A compounds, retinol, retinal (retinaldehyde) and retinoic acid, all of which are derivatives of beta-carotene. The chemical reactions and pathways involving terpenoids, any member of a class of compounds characterized by an isoprenoid chemical structure and including derivatives with various functional groups. The chemical reactions and pathways involving isoprenoid compounds, isoprene (2-methylbuta-1,3-diene) or compounds containing or derived from linked isoprene (3-methyl-2-butenylene) residues. The chemical reactions and pathways involving lipids, as carried out by individual cells. The chemical reactions and pathways by which individual cells transform chemical substances.

View Gene Ontology (GO) Term

GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: isoprenoid metabolic process
Acc: GO:0006720
Aspect: Biological Process
Desc: The chemical reactions and pathways involving isoprenoid compounds, isoprene (2-methylbuta-1,3-diene) or compounds containing or derived from linked isoprene (3-methyl-2-butenylene) residues.
Synonyms:
  • polyisoprenoid metabolic process
  • polyisoprenoid metabolism
  • GO:0016096
  • polyterpene metabolism
  • isoprenoid metabolism
  • polyterpene metabolic process
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0006720 - isoprenoid metabolic process (interactive image map)
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