ornithine metabolic process

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Nameornithine metabolic process
IDGO_0006591
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Biological process

Exact synonym

ornithine metabolism

Description

The chemical reactions and pathways involving ornithine, an amino acid only rarely found in proteins, but which is important in living organisms as an intermediate in the reactions of the urea cycle and in arginine biosynthesis.

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