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cap snatching

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Source Word

cap snatching

Noun

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

Japanese Meaning

ウイルスが宿主細胞RNAの先端部（キャップ部）を切り出し、自身のmRNAの5'末端に利用する現象。

What is this buttons?

Researchers studied cap snatching in influenza to understand how the virus hijacks host machinery.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

研究者たちは、インフルエンザが宿主細胞RNAから5'キャップを切り取る現象を研究し、ウイルスが宿主の機構をどのように乗っ取るかを理解した。

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

Influenza virus furnishes its mRNA with this structure by a cap-snatching mechanism, in which the viral polymerase cleaves host mRNA endonucleolytically 10–13 nucleotides from the 5′ end and utilizes the capped fragment as a primer to synthesize viral transcripts.

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