Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cap snatching

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.97 in modern English

Syllables: cap s-natch-ing
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does cap snatching mean?: Removal of the start of a strand of host cell RNA to serve as the 5' cap of viral mRNA.

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