id | GO:0030653   Detailed information
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  name | beta-lactam antibiotic metabolic process
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  namespace | biological_process
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  def | "The chemical reactions and pathways involving a beta-lactam antibiotic, any member of a class of natural or semisynthetic antibiotics whose characteristic feature is a strained, four-membered beta-lactam ring. They include the penicillins and many of the cephalosporins." [GOC:mah, ISBN:0198506732 "Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology"]
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  subset | gosubset_prok
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  synonym | "beta-lactam antibiotic metabolism" EXACT []
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  is_a | GO:0016999 ! antibiotic metabolic process
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  is_a | GO:0044106 ! cellular amine metabolic process
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  is_a | GO:0072338 ! cellular lactam metabolic process
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