"Vitamin K 2" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A group of substances similar to VITAMIN K 1 which contains a ring of 2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinione and an isoprenoid side chain of varying number of isoprene units. In vitamin K 2, each isoprene unit contains a double bond. They are produced by bacteria including the normal intestinal flora.
| Descriptor ID |
D024482
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.455.426.559.847.638.721.374.844 D02.455.849.291.523.500.844 D02.806.550.750 D04.615.638.721.374.844
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| Concept/Terms |
Vitamin K 2- Vitamin K 2
- Menaquinones
- Vitamin K2
- Menaquinone
- Vitamin K Quinone
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| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Vitamin K 2" by people in Profiles.
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Parapseudoflavitalea muciniphila gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Chitinophagaceae isolated from a human peritoneal tumour and reclassification of Pseudobacter ginsenosidimutans as Pseudoflavitalea ginsenosidimutans comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2020 Jun; 70(6):3639-3646.
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Microbacterium telephonicum sp. nov., isolated from the screen of a cellular phone. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2018 Apr; 68(4):1052-1058.
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Williamwhitmania taraxaci gen. nov., sp. nov., a proteolytic anaerobe with a novel type of cytology from Lake Untersee in Antarctica, description of Williamwhitmaniaceae fam. nov., and emendation of the order Bacteroidales Krieg 2012. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2017 Oct; 67(10):4132-4145.
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Sanguibacter gelidistatuariae sp. nov., a novel psychrotolerant anaerobe from an ice sculpture in Antarctica, and emendation of descriptions of the family Sanguibacteraceae, the genus Sanguibacter and species S. antarcticus, S. inulinus, S. kedieii, S. marinus, S. soli and S. suarezii. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2017 May; 67(5):1442-1450.
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Luethyella okanaganae gen. nov., sp. nov., a Novel Genus and Species of the Family Microbacteriaceae Isolated from the Insect Okanagana rimosa. Curr Microbiol. 2017 Apr; 74(4):419-424.
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Raineyella antarctica gen. nov., sp. nov., a psychrotolerant, d-amino-acid-utilizing anaerobe isolated from two geographic locations of the Southern Hemisphere. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2016 Dec; 66(12):5529-5536.
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Extracellular superoxide production by Enterococcus faecalis requires demethylmenaquinone and is attenuated by functional terminal quinol oxidases. Mol Microbiol. 2001 Nov; 42(3):729-40.