AmiGO 2: Term Details for "sterol biosynthetic process" (GO:0016126)

Accession: GO:0016126
Name: sterol biosynthetic process
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: sterol anabolism, sterol biosynthesis, sterol formation, sterol synthesis
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of sterols, steroids with one or more hydroxyl groups and a hydrocarbon side-chain in the molecule. Source: GOC:go_curators
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0016126 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to sterol biosynthetic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to sterol biosynthetic process (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for sterol biosynthetic process (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
sterol biosynthetic process	is_a	steroid biosynthetic process (GO:0006694)
sterol biosynthetic process	is_a	sterol metabolic process (GO:0016125)
sterol biosynthetic process	RO:0004008	sterol (CHEBI:15889)
sterol biosynthetic process	is_a	organic hydroxy compound biosynthetic process (GO:1901617)

subject	relation	object
negative regulation of sterol biosynthetic process (GO:0106119)	RO:0002212	sterol biosynthetic process
ergosterol biosynthetic process (GO:0006696)	is_a	sterol biosynthetic process
ecdysone biosynthetic process (GO:0006697)	is_a	sterol biosynthetic process
zymosterol biosynthetic process (GO:0036197)	is_a	sterol biosynthetic process
positive regulation of sterol biosynthetic process (GO:0106120)	RO:0002213	sterol biosynthetic process
cholesterol biosynthetic process (GO:0006695)	is_a	sterol biosynthetic process
regulation of sterol biosynthetic process (GO:0106118)	RO:0002211	sterol biosynthetic process