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The chemical reactions and pathways involving aromatic compounds, any organic compound characterized by one or more planar rings, each of which contains conjugated double bonds and delocalized pi electrons, as carried out by individual cells. The chemical reactions and pathways involving adenine, 6-aminopurine, one of the five main bases found in nucleic acids and a component of numerous important derivatives of its corresponding ribonucleoside, adenosine. The chemical reactions and pathways involving guanine, 2-amino-6-hydroxypurine, a purine that is one of the five main bases found in nucleic acids and a component of a number of phosphorylated guanosine derivatives whose metabolic or regulatory functions are important. The cellular chemical reactions and pathways involving nucleobases, nucleosides and nucleotides. Any process that stops, prevents or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways involving purine bases. Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways involving purine bases. The chemical reactions and pathways involving purine bases, one of the two classes of nitrogen-containing ring compounds found in DNA and RNA, which include adenine and guanine. The chemical reactions and pathways involving a nucleobase, a nitrogenous base that is a constituent of a nucleic acid, e.g. the purines: adenine, guanine, hypoxanthine, xanthine and the pyrimidines: cytosine, uracil, thymine. The chemical reactions and pathways involving xanthine, 2,6-dihydroxypurine, a purine formed in the metabolic breakdown of guanine but not present in nucleic acids. The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of purine bases, one of the two classes of nitrogen-containing ring compounds found in DNA and RNA, which include adenine and guanine. The chemical reactions and pathways involving hypoxanthine, 6-hydroxy purine, an intermediate in the degradation of adenylate. Its ribonucleoside is known as inosine and its ribonucleotide as inosinate. The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of purine bases, one of the two classes of nitrogen-containing ring compounds found in DNA and RNA, which include adenine and guanine. Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways involving purines. The chemical reactions and pathways involving heterocyclic compounds, those with a cyclic molecular structure and at least two different atoms in the ring (or rings).

View Gene Ontology (GO) Term

GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: purine base metabolic process
Acc: GO:0006144
Aspect: Biological Process
Desc: The chemical reactions and pathways involving purine bases, one of the two classes of nitrogen-containing ring compounds found in DNA and RNA, which include adenine and guanine.
Synonyms:
  • purine metabolism
  • purine base metabolism
  • purine metabolic process
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
   This term: 51 [Search]
   Term or descendants: 165 [Search]


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INTERACTIVE GO GRAPH

GO:0006144 - purine base metabolic process (interactive image map)
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