"Alkanes" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The generic name for the group of aliphatic hydrocarbons Cn-H2n+2. They are denoted by the suffix -ane. (Grant & Hackh's Chemical Dictionary, 5th ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D000473
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.455.326.146
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2006 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Alkanes" by people in Profiles.
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Insights into Nitrosoalkane Binding to Myoglobin Provided by Crystallography of Wild-Type and Distal Pocket Mutant Derivatives. Biochemistry. 2023 04 18; 62(8):1406-1419.
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Lifestyle of a marine anaerobe that eats only short-chain alkanes. Environ Microbiol. 2022 05; 24(5):2220-2221.
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Locating and Quantifying Carbon Steel Corrosion Rates Linked to Fungal B20 Biodiesel Degradation. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2021 11 24; 87(24):e0117721.
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Surface-Transfer Mass Spectrometry Imaging of Renal Tissue on Gold Nanoparticle Enhanced Target. Anal Chem. 2016 07 19; 88(14):7365-71.
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Methanogenic paraffin degradation proceeds via alkane addition to fumarate by 'Smithella' spp. mediated by a syntrophic coupling with hydrogenotrophic methanogens. Environ Microbiol. 2016 09; 18(8):2604-19.
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Transcriptional response of Desulfatibacillum alkenivorans AK-01 to growth on alkanes: insights from RT-qPCR and microarray analyses. FEMS Microbiol Ecol. 2016 May; 92(5):fiw062.
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Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes at the Interface of Pickering Emulsions. Langmuir. 2015 Dec 08; 31(48):13077-84.
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Synthesis, structural studies, kinetic stability, and oxidation catalysis of the late first row transition metal complexes of 4,10-dimethyl-1,4,7,10-tetraazabicyclo[6.5.2]pentadecane. Dalton Trans. 2015 Jul 21; 44(27):12210-24.
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Interrogation of Chesapeake Bay sediment microbial communities for intrinsic alkane-utilizing potential under anaerobic conditions. FEMS Microbiol Ecol. 2015 Feb; 91(2):1-14.
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The genome sequence of Desulfatibacillum alkenivorans AK-01: a blueprint for anaerobic alkane oxidation. Environ Microbiol. 2012 Jan; 14(1):101-13.