Negative sense RNA is the kind of RNA that is the genetic blueprint of the influenza virus. RNA, like DNA, carries genetic information in a sequence of three letters (the genetic code). In our bodies, DNA is double-stranded, with each strand a 'code mirror image' of the other. Thus when the cell replicates, the two strands separate and each makes a mirror image copy so the result is two new double-strands just like the first one. In the influenza virus, however, there is a single-strand of RNA.
RNA product of mic (mRNA-interfering complementary RNA) gene s that regulates another gene by base pairing with and thus preventing translation from its mRNA.
An RNA molecule that can hybridize to an mRNA molecule. Hybridization of an antisense RNA molecule to the translation start sites on an mRNA prevents the initiation of translation. For example, an antisense RNA is involved in the regulation of transposase expression from Tn10.
RNA complementary to a specific RNA transcript of a gene that can hybridize to the specific RNA and block its function.
An RNA, with sequence complementary to a specific RNA transcript or mRNA, whose binding prevents processing of the transcript or translation of the mRNA. ( Figure 11-46)
RNA complementary to messenger RNA. When combined with messenger RNA, translation of the latter is blocked.
a RNA which is complementary to a mRNA sequence.
RNA made by copying the other DNA strand in a coding segment in the opposite direction; this RNA will bind to the mRNA made from the coding or sense strand. Return to text.
Complementary RNA sequence - binds to (sense) mRNA molecule, blocking translation
An RNA molecule that, for whatever reason, is transcribed in a backwards (that is, tail to head, or 3’ to 5’) direction.
The RNA molecules that is the reverse complement of a naturally occurring mRNA, and which can be used to prevent translation of that mRNA in a transformed cell.