"RNA Caps" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Nucleic acid structures found on the 5' end of eukaryotic cellular and viral messenger RNA and some heterogeneous nuclear RNAs. These structures, which are positively charged, protect the above specified RNAs at their termini against attack by phosphatases and other nucleases and promote mRNA function at the level of initiation of translation. Analogs of the RNA caps (RNA CAP ANALOGS), which lack the positive charge, inhibit the initiation of protein synthesis.
| Descriptor ID |
D012315
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.633.100.759.646.454.700 D13.444.735.544.500 D13.695.667.454.700 D13.695.827.426.700
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| Concept/Terms |
RNA Caps- RNA Caps
- Caps, RNA
- 5' Capped RNA
- RNA, 5' Capped
- 5' mRNA Cap Structure
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Terminal 7-methyl-guanosine cap structure on the normally uncapped 5' noncoding region of poliovirus mRNA inhibits its translation in mammalian cells. J Virol. 1991 Nov; 65(11):6312-5.