lipid metabolic process
Term Information
- Accession
- GO:0006629
- Ontology
- biological process
- Synonyms
- exact: lipid metabolism
- Definition
- 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. [source:
GOC:ma]
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- None
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