The Pathway Ontology (PW), is currently being developed at the Rat Genome Database. For more information about this vocabulary, please see Petri et al. The rat genome database pathway portal. Database (Oxford). 2011 Apr 8;2011:bar010. Print 2011 or contact us (http://rgd.mcw.edu/contact/index.shtml).
Those metabolic reactions involving vitamin B6 - a water-soluble vitamin that exists in several forms. Vitamin B6 is required for many enzymatic reactions as the active pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP) form. A number of organisms can carry out de novo synthesis of vitamin B6; humans derive it from diet.
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pyridoxine metabolic pathway; vitamin B6 metabolic process