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hairpin transfer en · NOUN
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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.
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: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:
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