Planteome: Term Details for "melanin catabolic process" (GO:0046150)

You are using the Cyverse mirror of the Planteome Ontology Browser. The main site is at browser.planteome.org.

Notice

Some functionality on this page depends on JavaScript. To fully use the features of AmiGO 2, enable JavaScript in your browser and reload from the landing page.

Term Information

Accession: GO:0046150
Name: melanin catabolic process
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: melanin breakdown, melanin catabolism, melanin degradation
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of melanins, pigments largely of animal origin. High molecular weight polymers of indole quinone, they are irregular polymeric structures and are divided into three groups: allomelanins in the plant kingdom and eumelanins and phaeomelanins in the animal kingdom. Source: ISBN:0198506732
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0046150 at QuickGO
Subset: None
Related: Link to all annotated objects annotated to melanin catabolic process.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to melanin catabolic process.; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for melanin catabolic process.
Feedback: Contact the Planteome feedback if you find mistakes or have concerns about the data you find here.
Comments, changes to terms, or requests for new ontology terms can be made at GO issue tracker on GitHub.

Filter results

External term view.

Viewing options

BFO:0000001 entity
BFO:0000003 occurrent
GO:0008150 biological_process
GO:0009987 cellular process
GO:0008152 metabolic process
BFO:0000015 process
GO:0009056 catabolic process
GO:0044237 cellular metabolic process
GO:0071704 organic substance metabolic process
GO:0006725 cellular aromatic compound metabolic process
GO:0044248 cellular catabolic process
GO:1901360 organic cyclic compound metabolic process
GO:1901615 organic hydroxy compound metabolic process
GO:1901575 organic substance catabolic process
GO:0019439 aromatic compound catabolic process
GO:1901361 organic cyclic compound catabolic process
GO:1901616 organic hydroxy compound catabolic process
GO:0018958 phenol-containing compound metabolic process
GO:0042440 pigment metabolic process
GO:0019748 secondary metabolic process
GO:0006582 melanin metabolic process
GO:0019336 phenol-containing compound catabolic process
GO:0046149 pigment catabolic process
GO:0046150 melanin catabolic process

Parents of melanin catabolic process (GO:0046150)

subject	relation	object
melanin catabolic process	is_a	melanin metabolic process (GO:0006582)
melanin catabolic process	is_a	pigment catabolic process (GO:0046149)
melanin catabolic process	is_a	phenol-containing compound catabolic process (GO:0019336)

This term has no children.

melanin catabolic process

Term Information

Filter results

External term view.

Viewing options

Parents of melanin catabolic process (GO:0046150)

None.