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cap snatching

noun

Definitions

  1. Removal of the start of a strand of host cell RNA to serve as the 5' cap of viral mRNA.

    • Influenza virus polymerase uses a capped primer, derived by "cap-snatching" from host pre-messenger RNA, to transcribe its RNA genome into mRNA and a stuttering mechanism to generate the poly(A) tail.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cap snatching. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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