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hairpin transfer

hairpin transfer noun: 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.

Noun

hairpin transfer (plural hairpin transfers)

  1. 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.1999, Allan Granoff, Robert G. Webster, Encyclopedia of Virology
    • 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).2005, Jonathan Kerr, Susan Cotmore, Marshall E Bloom, Parvoviruses, page 194

Forms of hairpin transfer

pluralhairpin transfers

Questions about hairpin transfer

What does hairpin transfer mean?
Hairpin transfer means 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.
What part of speech is hairpin transfer?
Hairpin transfer is a noun.
What is the plural of hairpin transfer?
The plural of hairpin transfer is hairpin transfers.

Words near hairpin transfer in the dictionary

  1. hairpin
  2. hairpin bend
  3. hairpin bends
  4. hairpin curve
  5. hairpin curves
  6. hairpin transfer
  7. hairpin transfers
  8. hairpin turn
  9. hairpin turns
  10. hairpinned
  11. hairpins

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