English Dictionary

cap snatching

名詞

不可算名詞

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

日本語の意味

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。

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

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。

意味（1）

(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.