| id | GO:0006787 Detailed information
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| name | porphyrin catabolic process
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| namespace | biological_process
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| def | "The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of any member of a large group of derivatives or analogs of porphyrin. Porphyrin consists of a ring of four pyrrole nuclei linked each to the next at their alpha positions through a methine group." [GOC:jl, ISBN:0198506732 "Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology"]
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| subset | gosubset_prok
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| synonym | "porphyrin breakdown" EXACT []
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| synonym | "porphyrin catabolism" EXACT []
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| synonym | "porphyrin degradation" EXACT []
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| is_a | GO:0006778 ! porphyrin metabolic process
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| is_a | GO:0033015 ! tetrapyrrole catabolic process
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| is_a | GO:0051187 ! cofactor catabolic process
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