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The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of chitin, a linear polysaccharide consisting of P-1,4-linked N-acetyl-D-glucosamine residues. The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of chitin, a linear polysaccharide consisting of P-1,4-linked N-acetyl-D-glucosamine residues. The chemical reactions and pathways involving chitin, a linear polysaccharide consisting of P-1,4-linked N-acetyl-D-glucosamine residues. The chemical reactions and pathways involving polysaccharides, a polymer of more than 20 monosaccharide residues joined by glycosidic linkages. The chemical reactions and pathways involving cell wall chitin, a linear polysaccharide consisting of P-1,4-linked N-acetyl-D-glucosamine residues, found in the walls of cells. The chemical reactions and pathways involving any organic compound that is weakly basic in character and contains an amino or a substituted amino group, as carried out by individual cells. Amines are called primary, secondary, or tertiary according to whether one, two, or three carbon atoms are attached to the nitrogen atom. The chemical reactions and pathways involving aminoglycans, any polymer containing amino groups that consists of more than about 10 monosaccharide residues joined to each other by glycosidic linkages. Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways involving chitin. The chemical reactions and pathways involving cuticle chitin, a linear polysaccharide consisting of P-1,4-linked N-acetyl-D-glucosamine residues, found in cuticles.

View Gene Ontology (GO) Term

GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: chitin metabolic process
Acc: GO:0006030
Aspect: Biological Process
Desc: The chemical reactions and pathways involving chitin, a linear polysaccharide consisting of P-1,4-linked N-acetyl-D-glucosamine residues.
Synonyms:
  • beta-1,4-linked N-acetylglucosamine metabolism
  • chitin metabolism
  • beta-1,4-linked N-acetylglucosamine metabolic process
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
   This term: 152 [Search]
   Term or descendants: 284 [Search]


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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0006030 - chitin metabolic process (interactive image map)
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