obsolete nonprotein amino acid catabolic process
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GO:0009063
OBSOLETE. The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of any amino acid not found, or rarely found, in peptide linkage in proteins. [ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0198506732 GOC:jl ]
Synonyms: nonprotein amino acid catabolism nonprotein amino acid degradation nonprotein amino acid breakdown nonprotein amino acid catabolic process
Term information
This term was made obsolete because it was a grouping term that was poorly defined and did not provide a particularly meaningful grouping, since even for those amino acids commonly found in proteins, not all molecules necessarily end up incorporated into proteins. The term also violated the principle of positivity.