electron transport

Term Information

Accession: GO:0006118
Ontology: biological process
Synonyms: related: 6-phosphofructokinase reduction; related: dihydrobiopterin reduction; related: dihydrolipoamide reduction; related: dihydrolipoylprotein reduction; related: dihydropteridine reduction; related: other pathways of electron transport; related: oxidized glutathione reduction; related: protein-disulfide reduction; exact: electron transfer
Definition: OBSOLETE. The transport of electrons from an electron donor to an electron acceptor. [source: http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/]
Comment: This term was made obsolete because it describes a molecular function.; Replaced by GO:0055114 : oxidation reduction; Consider GO:0016491 : oxidoreductase activity GO:0022904 : respiratory electron transport chain
Subset: None
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