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The chemical reactions and pathways involving GDP-L-galactose, a substance composed of L-galactose in glycosidic linkage with guanosine diphosphate. 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 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 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. The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of galactose, the aldohexose galacto-hexose.

View Gene Ontology (GO) Term

GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: galactose metabolic process
Acc: GO:0006012
Aspect: Biological Process
Desc: 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.
Synonyms:
  • galactose metabolism
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
   This term: 80 [Search]
   Term or descendants: 98 [Search]


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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0006012 - galactose metabolic process (interactive image map)
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