arabinosyl

English

Noun

arabinosyl (plural arabinosyls)

1. (biochemistry, especially in combination) The univalent radical derived from arabinose
   • 2015 August 13, Uma Shankar Gautam et al., “In-Vivo Gene Signatures of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in C3HeB/FeJ Mice”, in PLoS ONE‎^[1], volume 10, →DOI:

     Among the various targets that PknJ is experimentally known to phosphorylate and activate [ 87 ], EmbR is a transcriptional factor required for the expression of the embCAB operon, that encodes the critical cell wall arabinosyl transferases [ 88 ].

Derived terms

• arabinosylation
• arabinosylcytosine
• arabinosyltransferase