beta-alanine catabolic process

id: GO:0019484
name: beta-alanine catabolic process
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of beta-alanine (3-aminopropanoic acid), an achiral amino acid and an isomer of alanine. It occurs free (e.g. in brain) and in combination (e.g. in pantothenate) but it is not a constituent of proteins.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0019485beta-alanine catabolic process to L-alanine
GO:0019486beta-alanine catabolic process to mevalonate semialdehyde, by transamination

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0009063cellular amino acid catabolic process
GO:0019482beta-alanine metabolic process