Entner-Doudoroff pathway
A cellular carbohydrate catabolic process that converts a carbohydrate to pyruvate and either glyceraldehyde or glyceraldehyde-3 phosphate by dehydration and aldol cleavage via a gluconate or 6-phosphogluconate intermediate.
GO:0006090
pyruvate metabolic process
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GO:0016052
carbohydrate catabolic process
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