arabinoflavin

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noun

A flavin, similar to riboflavin but with an arabinose moiety instead of a ribose one

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Meanings

nounarabinoflavin (uncountable)
  1. uncountablechemistryA flavin, similar to riboflavin but with an arabinose moiety instead of a ribose one

    The absence of any positive and negative mFo-DFc electron density peaks at 3/-3 sigma levels close to C2’ carbon of arabinoflavin (a-FAD) molecules in all eight AOX1 subunits indicates high occupancy of the modified FAD present in the crystallized protein.

    2016 February 24, “Crystal Structure of Alcohol Oxidase from Pichia pastoris”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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