format-version: 1.2
date: 25:05:2013 07:30
default-namespace: uniprot:keywords


[Typedef]
id: category
name: category
is_cyclic: false

[Term]
id: KW-1157
name: Cap snatching
def: "Protein involved in cap snatching, a process in which a cellular mRNA is cleaved few nucleotides after the 5'cap. The resulting 10- to 13-nucleotides long capped fragment serve as primer for the initiation of viral mRNA synthesis. Cap snatching is used by negative stranded RNA virus which do not encode a guanylyl transferase, like influenza or hantaviruses." []
is_a: KW-9999
relationship: category KW-9999