obsolete cephalosporin metabolic process

Term ID

GO:0043645

Synonyms

• cephalosporin metabolism

Definition

OBSOLETE. 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

References

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Ontology

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