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Metabolites are the intermediates and products of metabolism
Metabolism

Metabolism is the set of chemical reactions that occur in living organisms in order to maintain life. These processes allow organisms to grow and reproduce, maintain their structures, and respond to their environments....
. The term metabolite is usually restricted to small molecule
Molecule

In chemistry, a molecule is defined as a sufficiently stable, electric charge neutral group of at least two atoms in a definite arrangement held together by very strong chemical bonds....
s. A primary metabolite is directly involved in normal growth, development, and reproduction. A secondary metabolite
Secondary metabolite

Secondary metabolites are organic compounds that are not directly involved in the normal cell growth, Biological development or reproduction of organisms....
 is not directly involved in those processes, but usually has an important ecological
Ecology

Ecology is the science study of the distribution and Abundance of life and the interactions between organisms and their nature environment ....
 function. Examples include antibiotics and pigment
Pigment

A pigment is a material that changes the color of light it Reflection as the result of selective color absorption. This physical process differs from fluorescence, phosphorescence, and other forms of luminescence, in which the material itself emits light....
s.

The metabolome
Metabolome

Metabolome refers to the complete set of small-molecule metabolites to be found within a biological sample, such as a single organism. The word was coined in analogy with transcriptomics and proteomics; like the transcriptome and the proteome, the metabolome is dynamic, changing from second to second....
 forms a large network of metabolic reactions, where outputs from one enzymatic chemical reaction
Chemical reaction

A chemical reaction is a process that always results in the interconversion of chemical substances. The substance or substances initially involved in a chemical reaction are called reactants....
 are inputs to other chemical reactions.






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Metabolites are the intermediates and products of metabolism
Metabolism

Metabolism is the set of chemical reactions that occur in living organisms in order to maintain life. These processes allow organisms to grow and reproduce, maintain their structures, and respond to their environments....
. The term metabolite is usually restricted to small molecule
Molecule

In chemistry, a molecule is defined as a sufficiently stable, electric charge neutral group of at least two atoms in a definite arrangement held together by very strong chemical bonds....
s. A primary metabolite is directly involved in normal growth, development, and reproduction. A secondary metabolite
Secondary metabolite

Secondary metabolites are organic compounds that are not directly involved in the normal cell growth, Biological development or reproduction of organisms....
 is not directly involved in those processes, but usually has an important ecological
Ecology

Ecology is the science study of the distribution and Abundance of life and the interactions between organisms and their nature environment ....
 function. Examples include antibiotics and pigment
Pigment

A pigment is a material that changes the color of light it Reflection as the result of selective color absorption. This physical process differs from fluorescence, phosphorescence, and other forms of luminescence, in which the material itself emits light....
s.

The metabolome
Metabolome

Metabolome refers to the complete set of small-molecule metabolites to be found within a biological sample, such as a single organism. The word was coined in analogy with transcriptomics and proteomics; like the transcriptome and the proteome, the metabolome is dynamic, changing from second to second....
 forms a large network of metabolic reactions, where outputs from one enzymatic chemical reaction
Chemical reaction

A chemical reaction is a process that always results in the interconversion of chemical substances. The substance or substances initially involved in a chemical reaction are called reactants....
 are inputs to other chemical reactions. Such systems have been described as hypercycle
Hypercycle

Hypercycle may refer to:* Hypercycle , a line of equal distance in hyperbolic geometry* Hypercycle , a kind of reaction network prominent in a theory of the self-organization of matter, see also Manfred Eigen...
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See also

  • Secondary metabolite
    Secondary metabolite

    Secondary metabolites are organic compounds that are not directly involved in the normal cell growth, Biological development or reproduction of organisms....
  • Antimetabolite
    Antimetabolite

    An antimetabolite is a chemical that enzyme inhibition the use of a metabolite, which is another chemical that is part of normal metabolism. Such substances are often similar in structure to the metabolite that they interfere with, such as the antifolates that interfere with the use of folic acid....
  • Metabolic control analysis
    Metabolic control analysis

    Metabolic control analysis is a mathematical framework for describingMetabolic pathway, Cell signaling#Signaling pathways and Genetic pathway....
    , a specific kind of control analysis
  • Metabolome
    Metabolome

    Metabolome refers to the complete set of small-molecule metabolites to be found within a biological sample, such as a single organism. The word was coined in analogy with transcriptomics and proteomics; like the transcriptome and the proteome, the metabolome is dynamic, changing from second to second....
  • Metabolomics
    Metabolomics

    Metabolomics is the "systematic study of the unique chemical fingerprints that specific cellular processes leave behind" - specifically, the study of their small-molecule metabolite profiles....
     = the study of global metabolite profiles in a system (cell, tissue, or organism) under a given set of conditions.