Short-range parts of the baryon-baryon (BB) interactions are analyzed from the spin-flavor SU (6) sf ⊃ SU (3) f × SU (2)s symmetry viewpoint. Due to the Pauli principle of quarks, the symmetry structure of the wave functions is restricted at short distances. Consequently, the BB states with the same spin-flavor quantum numbers may be reduced into one or a few spin-flavor states. Such reduction causes repulsion and/or suppression of transitions at short distances. We show that the observed suppression of the ΞN → ΛΛ conversion can be explained following the above argument. It is also applied to the suppression of the ΣN to ΛN conversion in the spin 1 and isospin 1/2 channel. Furthermore, the effects of the color-magnetic interaction (CMI), which prefers flavor antisymmetric states, to the Pauli-allowed states are discussed.