heme metabolic process

id: GO:0042168
name: heme metabolic process
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The chemical reactions and pathways involving heme, any compound of iron complexed in a porphyrin (tetrapyrrole) ring.

Child Functions

idname
GO:0006783heme biosynthetic process
GO:0006788heme oxidation
GO:0042167heme catabolic process
GO:0046156siroheme metabolic process
GO:0046160heme a metabolic process
GO:0046162heme c metabolic process
GO:0046492heme b metabolic process
GO:0048033heme o metabolic process

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0006778porphyrin-containing compound metabolic process
GO:0042440pigment metabolic process