short-chain fatty acid metabolic process

id: GO:0046459
name: short-chain fatty acid metabolic process
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The chemical reactions and pathways involving fatty acids with a chain length of less than 8 carbons.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0019605butyrate metabolic process
GO:0019626short-chain fatty acid catabolic process
GO:0051790short-chain fatty acid biosynthetic process

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0006631fatty acid metabolic process