Meaning of hairpin transfer | Babel Free
Definitions
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.
Examples
“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).”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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