arabinoflavin

English

Noun

arabinoflavin (uncountable)

  1. (organic chemistry) A flavin, similar to riboflavin but with an arabinose moiety instead of a ribose one
    • 2016 February 24, “Crystal Structure of Alcohol Oxidase from Pichia pastoris”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:
      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.
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