glucosamine metabolic process

id: GO:0006041
name: glucosamine metabolic process
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The chemical reactions and pathways involving glucosamine (2-amino-2-deoxyglucopyranose), an aminodeoxysugar that occurs in combined form in chitin.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0006042glucosamine biosynthetic process
GO:0006043glucosamine catabolic process
GO:0006044N-acetylglucosamine metabolic process

Parent Functions

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GO:0006040amino sugar metabolic process