glycotransferase

English

Etymology

glyco- +‎ transferase

Noun

glycotransferase (plural glycotransferases)

  1. (biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of a sugar moiety
    • 2015 October 22, “A Tendon Cell Specific RNAi Screen Reveals Novel Candidates Essential for Muscle Tendon Interaction”, in PLOS ONE‎, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0140976:
      CG33303 is predicted to have the dolichyl-diphosphooligosachharide-protein glycotransferase activity based on its similarity with human Ribophorin I. As candidates from this class show differential effect on different tendon cell clusters i.e. dorsal-anterior and posterior tendon cell cluster it would be interesting to investigate their role in specifying these tendon cell clusters.
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