Beta-Alanine Metabolism

[The chemical reactions and pathways involving beta-alanine (3-aminopropanoic acid), an achiral amino acid and an isomer of alanine. It occurs free (e.g. in brain) and in combination (e.g. in pantothenate) but it is not a constituent of proteins. [GOC:jl, ISBN:0198506732 "Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology"] ( GO )]

UMLS (NCI) C1156837

Beta-Alanine Metabolism Pathway