flavin
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9.3
- noun
- /ˈfleɪvɪn/
- Specialized
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flavina
- - The Judd, the Flavin, the Brancusi.
And So what I want to do now is show you the chemistry with the flavin and NADH.
- And So what I want to do now is show you the chemistry with the flavin and NADH.
Examples
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And So what I want to do now is show you the chemistry with the flavin and NADH.
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And we talked about the fact, and we'll come back to this, that this protein has a flavin and two hemes, OK?
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Tim Flavin
Blog text (19) -
Tim Flavin
Blog text (19) -
The autoinducer triggers the synthesis of luciferase, which oxidizes a flavin mononucleotide and tetradecanol to produce light.
Academic text (1993) -
In an article addressing the needs of the next 40 years, Worldwatch Institute president Lester R. Brown and vice-presidents Christopher Flavin and Sandra Postel have described just such a social revolution:
Academic text (1990) -
Both groups, for example, identified a natural riboswitch that recognizes flavin mononucleotide (FMN), a derivative of vitamin B2.
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The autoinducer triggers the synthesis of luciferase, which oxidizes a flavin mononucleotide and tetradecanol to produce light.
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And we talked about the fact, and we'll come back to this, that this protein has a flavin and two hemes, OK?
Surface Forms
Morphology
flavin = flav + in
The element 'flav-' is a Latin-derived combining form meaning 'yellow' (not a standalone English word) and '-in' is a specialized chemical suffix, so the composition is not transparently interpretable by an average B1 learner.
Etymology
Flavin comes from the Latin word flavus, which means 'yellow', and the ending -in that names chemical substances, as in vitamin and protein. So, flavin is a yellow chemical found in some pigments and in vitamins like riboflavin.