Term Name: polysaccharide metabolic process
Synonyms: glycan metabolic process, glycan metabolism, multicellular organismal polysaccharide metabolic process, polysaccharide metabolism
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways involving a polysaccharide, a polymer of many (typically more than 10) monosaccharide residues linked glycosidically.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0005976]    QuickGO    AmiGO

Relationships
is a type of: carbohydrate metabolic process macromolecule metabolic process
has subtype: alginic acid acetylation arabinan metabolic process cell wall polysaccharide metabolic process enterobacterial common antigen metabolic process galacturonan metabolic process glucan metabolic process pectin metabolic process polysaccharide biosynthetic process polysaccharide catabolic process substituted mannan metabolic process xylan metabolic process
regulated by: regulation of polysaccharide metabolic process