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GO: Biological Process
cephalosporin metabolic process
- Term ID
- GO:0043645
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- cephalosporin metabolism
- Definition
- The chemical reactions and pathways involving a cephalosporin, any of large class of tetracyclic triterpene broad-spectrum antibiotics similar both chemically and in their mode of action to penicillin, first isolated from the culture filtrates of mediterranean fungus acremonium (cephalosporium acremonium), and effective against gram-positive bacteria. Cephalosporin
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