hairpin transfer
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Transfer of genetic information from a strand of nucleic acid that terminates in a…
Transfer of genetic information from a strand of nucleic acid that terminates in a hairpin ribozyme by first detaching one side of the base of the hairpin, so that the hairpin is flattened out before making the RNA copy.
- Because the terminal sequences are not perfect inverted repeats, hairpin transfer results in two end sequences that are related but the inverted complement of each other.
- Conclusive evidence that hairpin transfer does occur as hypothesized was provided by assays that employed a closed hairpin form of the viral ITR, which was constructed from the cloned AAV genome (Snyder et al., 1990).
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for hairpin transfer. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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