nucleotidylexotransferase
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English
Etymology
From nucleotide + -yl + transferase.
Noun
nucleotidylexotransferase (usually uncountable, plural nucleotidylexotransferases)
- (biochemistry) A specialized DNA polymerase expressed in immature, pre-B, pre-T lymphoid cells, and acute lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma cells, which adds N-nucleotides to the V, D, and J exons during antibody gene recombination.