Cap snatching
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KW-1157
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Cap snatching
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Protein involved in cap snatching, a process in which a cellular mRNA is cleaved few nucleotides after the 5'cap. The resulting 10- to 13- nucleotides long capped fragment serve as primer for the initiation of viral mRNA synthesis. Cap snatching is used by negative stranded RNA virus which do not encode a guanylyl transferase, like influenza or hantaviruses.
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