nucleotidylexotransferase
English
editEtymology
editFrom nucleotide + -yl + transferase.
Noun
editnucleotidylexotransferase (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.