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^[1], →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.