Term Name: purine-containing compound salvage
Synonyms: purine salvage
Definition: Any process that generates a purine-containing compound, any nucleobase, nucleoside, nucleotide or nucleic acid that contains a purine base, from derivatives of them without de novo synthesis.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0043101]    QuickGO    AmiGO

Relationships
is a type of: metabolic compound salvage purine-containing compound biosynthetic process
has subtype: purine deoxyribonucleoside salvage purine nucleobase salvage purine nucleotide salvage purine ribonucleoside salvage