The chemical reactions and pathways leading to the formation of tetrapyrroles, natural pigments containing four pyrrole rings joined by one-carbon units linking position 2 of one pyrrole ring to position 5 of the next, from other compounds, including glycine and succinyl-CoA.
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tetrapyrrole anabolism from glycine and succinyl-CoA; tetrapyrrole biosynthesis from glycine and succinyl-CoA; tetrapyrrole formation from glycine and succinyl-CoA; tetrapyrrole synthesis from glycine and succinyl-CoA