cephalosporin metabolic process
id: GO:0043645
name: cephalosporin metabolic process
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False
Description: The chemical reactions and pathways involving a cephalosporin, any of large class of tetracyclic triterpene broad-spectrum antibiotics similar both chemically and in their mode of action to penicillin, first isolated from the culture filtrates of mediterranean fungus acremonium (cephalosporium acremonium), and effective against gram-positive bacteria.
Child Functions
| id | name |
|---|---|
| GO:0043646 | cephalosporin biosynthetic process |
Parent Functions
| id | name |
|---|---|
| GO:0006790 | sulfur compound metabolic process |
| GO:0030653 | beta-lactam antibiotic metabolic process |
