The chemical reactions and pathways involving carotenoids, tetraterpenoid compounds in which two units of 4 isoprenoid residues joined head-to-tail are themselves joined tail-to-tail. [ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0198547684 ]
Synonyms: carotenoid metabolism
This is just here as a test because I lose it
Term information
never in taxon
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_4932
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_4896
Term relations
Subclass of:
- metabolic process
- tetraterpenoid metabolic process
- not (in taxon some Schizosaccharomyces pombe)
- in taxon some (not Saccharomyces cerevisiae)
- in taxon some (not Schizosaccharomyces pombe)
- has primary input or output some carotenoid
- not (in taxon some Saccharomyces cerevisiae)