arabinose metabolic process
arabinose metabolism
exact
The chemical reactions and pathways involving arabinose, arabino-pentose. L-Arabinose occurs both free, for example in the heartwood of many conifers, and in the combined state, as a constituent of plant hemicelluloses, bacterial polysaccharides etc. D-arabinose is a constituent of arabinonucleosides.
GO:0019321
pentose metabolic process
is_a
SPBC28F2.05c SPAC2F3.05c SPAC26F1.07 SPAP32A8.02