GO biological process ontology term - GO:0006098 - pentose-phosphate shunt
Term summary
- ID
- GO:0006098
- Name
- pentose-phosphate shunt
- Ontology or CV name
- GO biological process
- Definition
- The metabolic process in which glucose-6-phosphate is oxidized to form carbon dioxide (CO2) and ribulose 5-phosphate, coupled to reduction of NADP+ to NADPH; ribulose 5-P then enters a series of reactions that can yield biosynthetic precursors (ribose-5-phosphate and erythrose-4-phosphate) and glycolytic intermediates (fructose-6-phosphate and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate).
