glycosyltransferase
noun
glycosyltransferase is a noun meaning “Any of several enzymes that catalyze the transfer of glycosyl groups between biological molecules, especially during the biosynthesis of glycoproteins” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-L-Y-C-O-S-Y-L-T-R-A-N-S-F-E-R-A-S-E, and it appears about once in every 93 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of glycosyltransferase is glycosyltransferases.
What does glycosyltransferase mean?
noun
- 1
Any of several enzymes that catalyze the transfer of glycosyl groups between biological molecules, especially during the biosynthesis of glycoproteins
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce glycosyltransferase?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-glycosyltransferase.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of glycosyltransferase
- glycosyltransferases plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is glycosyltransferase?
Glycosyltransferase appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you abbreviate glycosyltransferase?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of glycosyltransferase: GTF.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).