Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

xylosyltransferase

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: xy-lo-syl-trans-ferase
IPA

34

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any glycosyltransferase that catalyzes the transfer of xylose.

Example Sentences

"Here, we use a chemical biology tactic termed bump-and-hole (BH) engineering to probe the substrates of human xylosyltransferases in living cells."

Etymology

From xylosyl + transferase.

Inflected Forms

xylosyltransferases (plural)

Questions

What does xylosyltransferase mean?: Any glycosyltransferase that catalyzes the transfer of xylose.
Where does xylosyltransferase come from?: From xylosyl + transferase.

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