"Polyketides" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Natural compounds containing alternating carbonyl and methylene groups (beta-polyketones), bioenergenetically derived from repeated condensation of acetyl coenzyme A via malonyl coenzyme A, in a process similar to fatty acid synthesis.
| Descriptor ID |
D061065
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.540.576 D04.345.674
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| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Polyketides" by people in Profiles.
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Subsequent female breast cancer risk associated with anthracycline chemotherapy for childhood cancer. Nat Med. 2023 09; 29(9):2268-2277.
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Redundant synthesis of a conidial polyketide by two distinct secondary metabolite clusters in Aspergillus fumigatus. Environ Microbiol. 2016 Jan; 18(1):246-59.