macrolide metabolic process
The chemical reactions and pathways involving macrolides, any of a large group of polyketide compounds that contain a large lactone ring with few or no double bonds and no nitrogen atoms, linked glycosidically to one or more sugar groups. The macrolides include the carbomycins, the erythromycins, oleandomycin, oligomycins, and the spiramycins, and act as antibiotics, mainly against Gram-positive bacteria.
GO:0016999
antibiotic metabolic process
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GO:0030638
polyketide metabolic process
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GO:1901334
lactone metabolic process
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macrolide metabolism
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