pentose metabolic process

id: GO:0019321
name: pentose metabolic process
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The chemical reactions and pathways involving a pentose, any monosaccharide with a chain of five carbon atoms in the molecule.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0005997xylulose metabolic process
GO:0006014D-ribose metabolic process
GO:0009051pentose-phosphate shunt, oxidative branch
GO:0009052pentose-phosphate shunt, non-oxidative branch
GO:0019322pentose biosynthetic process
GO:0019323pentose catabolic process
GO:0019324L-lyxose metabolic process
GO:0019349ribitol metabolic process
GO:0019566arabinose metabolic process
GO:0042732D-xylose metabolic process
GO:0051167xylulose 5-phosphate metabolic process

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0005996monosaccharide metabolic process