Term Name: adenine salvage
Synonyms: adenine salvage pathway, adenine, hypoxanthine and their nucleoside salvage
Definition: Any process that generates adenine, 6-aminopurine, from derivatives of it without de novo synthesis.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0006168]    QuickGO    AmiGO

Relationships
is a type of: adenine biosynthetic process purine nucleobase salvage