mjl1717
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If you say a virus is negative stranded -what exactly does that mean?
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| meghana jadhav
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virus is negative stranded -...means they can not ...directly tranlate in to protien
Negative-stranded RNA must first be converted into +RNA (mRNA) by the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase incorporated in the virion.and then the mRNA can then be translated into proteins.
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| owen_osh
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Negative sense RNA is the homolog of regular mRNA.
All negative sense RNA viruses must carry with them an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase. This polymerase generates positive sense RNA that is used as mRNA and as a template for replicating the negative sense genome.
Naked negative sense RNA is not infectious, but naked positive sense RNA is.
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