macrolide metabolic process
id: GO:0033067
name: macrolide metabolic process
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False
Description: The chemical reactions and pathways involving macrolides, any of a large group of polyketide compounds that contain a large lactone ring with few or no double bonds and no nitrogen atoms, linked glycosidically to one or more sugar groups. The macrolides include the carbomycins, the erythromycins, oleandomycin, oligomycins, and the spiramycins, and act as antibiotics, mainly against Gram-positive bacteria.
Child Functions
| id | name |
|---|---|
| GO:0033068 | macrolide biosynthetic process |
Parent Functions
| id | name |
|---|---|
| GO:0016999 | antibiotic metabolic process |
| GO:0030638 | polyketide metabolic process |
| GO:0046483 | heterocycle metabolic process |
