| id | GO:0030149 Detailed information
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| name | sphingolipid catabolic process
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| namespace | biological_process
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| def | "The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of sphingolipids, any of a class of lipids containing the long-chain amine diol sphingosine or a closely related base (a sphingoid)." [GOC:mah, ISBN:0198506732 "Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology"]
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| subset | gosubset_prok
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| synonym | "sphingolipid breakdown" EXACT []
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| synonym | "sphingolipid catabolism" EXACT []
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| synonym | "sphingolipid degradation" EXACT []
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| is_a | GO:0006665 ! sphingolipid metabolic process
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| is_a | GO:0046466 ! membrane lipid catabolic process
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