"Flavodoxin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A low-molecular-weight (16,000) iron-free flavoprotein containing one molecule of flavin mononucleotide (FMN) and isolated from bacteria grown on an iron-deficient medium. It can replace ferredoxin in all the electron-transfer functions in which the latter is known to serve in bacterial cells.
| Descriptor ID |
D005418
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.097.400 D12.776.331.400
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Mocz G. Fuzzy cluster analysis of simple physicochemical properties of amino acids for recognizing secondary structure in proteins. Protein Sci. 1995 Jun; 4(6):1178-87.