carotenoid metabolic process

id: GO:0016116
name: carotenoid metabolic process
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The chemical reactions and pathways involving carotenoids, tetraterpenoid compounds in which two units of 4 isoprenoid residues joined head-to-tail are themselves joined tail-to-tail.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0016117carotenoid biosynthetic process
GO:0016118carotenoid catabolic process
GO:0016119carotene metabolic process
GO:0016122xanthophyll metabolic process

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0016108tetraterpenoid metabolic process