formaldehyde assimilation via xylulose monophosphate cycle

id: GO:0019648
name: formaldehyde assimilation via xylulose monophosphate cycle
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The pathway in which formaldehyde is used as a carbon source in the xylulose monophosphate cycle. Methylotrophic yeasts, but not bacteria, utilize the xylulose monophosphate cycle to fix formaldehyde and convert it into metabolically useful organic compounds.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0019649formaldehyde assimilation
GO:0051167xylulose 5-phosphate metabolic process