The chemical reactions and pathways involving ornithine, an amino acid only rarely found in proteins, but which is important in living organisms as an intermediate in the reactions of the urea cycle and in arginine biosynthesis.
kemične reakcije in poti, ki vključujejo ornitin, aminokislino, ki jo le redko najdemo v beljakovinah, vendar je v živih organizmih pomembna kot vmesni produkt v reakcijah cikla sečnine in biosinteze arginina (sl)
The chemical reactions and pathways involving ornithine, an amino acid only rarely found in proteins, but which is important in living organisms as an intermediate in the reactions of the urea cycle and in arginine biosynthesis. (en)