nucleotidylexotransferase
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
41
Scrabble Score
25
Letters
5
Syllables
15
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Uncountable
Etymology
From nucleotide + -yl + transferase.