purine base metabolic process

id: GO:0006144
name: purine base metabolic process
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The chemical reactions and pathways involving purine bases, one of the two classes of nitrogen-containing ring compounds found in DNA and RNA, which include adenine and guanine.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0006145purine base catabolic process
GO:0009113purine base biosynthetic process
GO:0046083adenine metabolic process
GO:0046098guanine metabolic process
GO:0046100hypoxanthine metabolic process
GO:0046110xanthine metabolic process

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0009112nucleobase metabolic process
GO:0072521purine-containing compound metabolic process