different between oncogenic vs isoprenylcysteine

English

From onco- (“tumor”) +? -genic (“producing”).

oncogenic (not comparable)

Causing the formation of tumors. [from 20th c.]
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 554:
  From the late 1960s research into oncogenic viruses was particularly advanced by David Baltimore (b. 1938) and Howard Tenin (1934–94), who simultaneously published a report of the discovery of an enzyme reverse transcriptase.

isoprenyl +? cysteine

isoprenylcysteine (uncountable)

(biochemistry) An isoprenylated derivative of cysteine that forms a motif in some oncogenic proteins

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