EOG81K1S7 GO:0003834 3/101 beta-carotene 15,15'-monooxygenase activity molecular_function "Catalysis of the reaction: beta-carotene + O(2) = 2 retinal." [EC:1.14.99.36, RHEA:10407] EOG81K1S7 GO:0004497 2/101 monooxygenase activity molecular_function "Catalysis of the incorporation of one atom from molecular oxygen into a compound and the reduction of the other atom of oxygen to water." [http://www.onelook.com/, ISBN:0198506732] EOG81K1S7 GO:0007602 1/101 phototransduction biological_process "The sequence of reactions within a cell required to convert absorbed photons into a molecular signal." [GOC:go_curators] EOG81K1S7 GO:0009110 1/101 vitamin biosynthetic process biological_process "The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of a vitamin, one of a number of unrelated organic substances that occur in many foods in small amounts and that are necessary in trace amounts for the normal metabolic functioning of the body." [GOC:go_curators, ISBN:0198506732] EOG81K1S7 GO:0046872 1/101 metal ion binding molecular_function "Interacting selectively and non-covalently with any metal ion." [GOC:ai] EOG81K1S7 GO:0010436 1/101 carotenoid dioxygenase activity molecular_function "Catalysis of the oxidative cleavage of carotenoids." [PMID:16459333] EOG81K1S7 GO:0016119 1/101 carotene metabolic process biological_process "The chemical reactions and pathways involving carotenes, hydrocarbon carotenoids." [ISBN:0198547684] EOG81K1S7 GO:0004744 1/101 retinal isomerase activity molecular_function "Catalysis of the reaction: all-trans-retinal = 11-cis-retinal." [RHEA:24127] EOG81K1S7 GO:0035238 1/101 vitamin A biosynthetic process biological_process "The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of any of the vitamin A compounds, retinol, retinal (retinaldehyde) and retinoic acid. Animals cannot synthesize vitamin A de novo, but form it through oxidative cleavage of carotenoids." [PMID:11158606] EOG81K1S7 GO:0042574 1/101 retinal metabolic process biological_process "The chemical reactions and pathways involving retinal, a compound that plays an important role in the visual process in most vertebrates. In the retina, retinal combines with opsins to form visual pigments. Retinal is one of the forms of vitamin A." [CHEBI:15035, GOC:curators, ISBN:0198506732] EOG81K1S7 GO:0016063 1/101 rhodopsin biosynthetic process biological_process "The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of rhodopsin, a brilliant purplish-red, light-sensitive visual pigment found in the rod cells of the retinas." [ISBN:0198506732] EOG81K1S7 GO:0042572 1/101 retinol metabolic process biological_process "The chemical reactions and pathways involving retinol, one of the three compounds that makes up vitamin A." [GOC:jl, http://www.indstate.edu/thcme/mwking/vitamins.html, PMID:1924551]