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yellow enzyme

biochemistry

Also known as: flavoprotein

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Theorell

In Axel Hugo Teodor Theorell
…pure sample of the “old yellow enzyme,” which is instrumental in the oxidative interconversion of sugars by the cell. Theorell found that the enzyme is composed of two parts: a nonprotein coenzyme—the yellow riboflavine (vitamin B₂) phosphate—and a protein apoenzyme. His discovery (1934) that the coenzyme actively facilitates oxidation of…
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Warburg

In Otto Warburg
…the first of the so-called yellow enzymes, or flavoproteins, which participate in dehydrogenation reactions in cells, and he discovered that these enzymes act in conjunction with a nonprotein component (now called a coenzyme), flavin adenine dinucleotide. In 1935 he discovered that nicotinamide forms part of another coenzyme, now called nicotinamide…
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