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English
Etymology
From isopentenyl + transferase.
Noun
isopentenyltransferase (plural isopentenyltransferases)
- (biochemistry) Any transferase that catalyses the transfer of an isopentenyl group
2015 April 23, Simon Moore et al., “Spatiotemporal modelling of hormonal crosstalk explains the level and patterning of hormones and gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana wild-type and mutant roots”, in The New Phytologist, volume 207, →DOI:The rate-limiting step for cytokinin biosynthesis involves a group of isopentenyltransferase (IPT) enzymes.