Flavoproteins are yellow proteins that serve as enzymes
critical to the ability of cells in the body to respire, to breath. (The "flavo-"
is borrowed from the Latin "flavus", yellow).
F lavoproteins are, in other words, respiratory enzymes. As enzymes they catalyze
(speed) what are technically termed oxidation-reduction reactions.
The first yellow enzyme was discovered by the German biochemist Otto Heinrich
Warburg (1883-1970), a pioneer in research on the respiration of cells, who won
the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1931 "for his discovery of the nature
and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme."
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