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. 2010 Feb 23;107(8):3283-4.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.0915061107. Epub 2010 Feb 18.

Viruses know more than one way to don a cap

Eugene V Koonin  1 , Bernard Moss
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Viruses know more than one way to don a cap

Eugene V Koonin et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
Conventional (A) and alternative VSV (B) mechanisms of mRNA capping. Abbreviations: pppG, GTP; pppN(pN)n-, 5′ end of pre-RNA; E, enzyme; PPi, pyrophosphate; AdoMet, S-adenosylmethionine; AdoHcy; S-adenosylhomocysteine.
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