• Images
  • Digg Stories
  • Books
  • Blog Entries
minimize

protoporphyrinogen IX metabolic process

Description

"The chemical reactions and pathways involving protoporphyrinogen IX, the specific substrate for the enzyme ferrochelatase, which catalyzes the insertion of iron to form protoheme. It is probably also the substrate for chlorophyll formation." [ISBN:0198506732 "Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology"]

Terms

protoporphyrinogen IX metabolismEnglish- exact synonym

Identifier

GO:0046501
Valid XHTML + RDFa W3C Semantic Web Logo