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 involved in the synthesis, utilization and/or degradation of cardiolipin. The molecule is derived from phosphatidylglycerol as an immature cardiolipin, and further remodeled by phospholipases. Cardiolipin is important for a range of mitochondrial functions.