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arabinoflavin

arabinoflavin noun: a flavin, similar to riboflavin but with an arabinose moiety instead of a ribose one.

Noun

arabinoflavin (uncountable)

  1. A 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

Questions about arabinoflavin

What does arabinoflavin mean?
Arabinoflavin means a flavin, similar to riboflavin but with an arabinose moiety instead of a ribose one.
What part of speech is arabinoflavin?
Arabinoflavin is a noun.

Words near arabinoflavin in the dictionary

  1. arabino
  2. arabino-
  3. arabino-oligosaccharide
  4. arabinobiose
  5. arabinocytosine
  6. arabinoflavin
  7. arabinofuran
  8. arabinofuranohydrolase
  9. arabinofuranohydrolases
  10. arabinofuranose
  11. arabinofuranoses

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