ssrna
Noun
Meaning
ssRNA (countable and uncountable, plural ssRNAs)
Initialism of single-stranded RNA.
ssrna (plural ssrnas)
Alternative form of ssRNA
Examples
It is unknown how often such mixed packaging occurs under natural conditions. citation Bonhoeffer et al. citation suggested that template switching by the reverse transcriptase acts as a repair process to deal with breaks in the ssRNA genome.
Strand switching (copy-choice recombination) by reverse transcriptase could generate an undamaged copy of genomic DNA from two damaged ssRNA genome copies.
Capsid proteins of most icosahedral ssRNA and ssDNA viruses display the same structural fold, the eight-stranded beta-barrel, also known as the jelly-roll fold.
This nucleic acid is usually single-stranded RNA ( ssRNA ) but may be double-stranded RNA (dsRNA).