"Methane" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The simplest saturated hydrocarbon. It is a colorless, flammable gas, slightly soluble in water. It is one of the chief constituents of natural gas and is formed in the decomposition of organic matter. (Grant & Hackh's Chemical Dictionary, 5th ed)
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D008697
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.455.326.146.571
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| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Methane" by people in Profiles.
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Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for the utilization of methylsuccinate, the product of methane activation via fumarate addition. Bioresour Technol. 2025 Jan; 416:131700.
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Directed Evolution of Protein-Based Sensors for Anaerobic Biological Activation of Methane. Biosensors (Basel). 2024 Jun 30; 14(7).
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Synthesis of proline-based N-heterocyclic carbene ligands. Org Lett. 2014 Feb 21; 16(4):1033-5.
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Design, synthesis, and diversification of 5,5-dimethyl cyclohexen-1,4-dione library. J Comb Chem. 2010 May 10; 12(3):318-20.