Medical Dictionary

peptidyl transferase

noun pep·ti·dyl transferase \ˈpep-tə-ˌdil-\

Medical Definition of PEPTIDYL TRANSFERASE

:  an enzyme that catalyzes the addition of amino acid residues to the growing polypeptide chain in protein synthesis by means of peptide bonds

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