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Definition of Flavoprotein

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Flavoprotein

1. A protein that has a flavin nucleotide (covalently or noncovalently linked) as prosthetic group. These are oxidoreductase enzymes that are involved in the transfer of H atoms from a donor to an acceptor. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Flavoprotein

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1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"(3) The flavoprotein (FP) (Y_2 fraction)12 was further chromatographed on hydroxyapatite to give (16) HS Mason, JC North, and M. Vanneste, Federation Proc., ..."

2. Oxygen/Nitrogen Radicals and Cellular Injury edited by Kenneth B. Adler, Robert D. Devlin, Val Vallyathan (2000)
"Purification and characterization of the cytokine-induced macrophage nitric oxide synthase: an FAD- and FMN-contain- ing flavoprotein. ..."

3. Gene Expression in Field Crops: Bibliography January 1991-November 1992 edited by Janet Saunders, Robert D. Warmbrodt (1995)
"The holoenzyme is a monomeric flavoprotein with a molecular weight of 164 kDa. Polyclonal rabbit antibodies against the purified enzyme were used to isolate ..."

4. Visualizing Chemistry: The Progress and Promise of Advanced Chemical Imaging by National Research Council (U.S.) (2006)
"... Cholesterol oxidase, a 53-kilodalton flavoprotein, catalyzes the oxidation of cholesterol by oxygen with the enzymatic cycle shown in Figure 3.4. ..."

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