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hairpin loop
(redirected from Stem-loop)

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hairpin loop [′her‚pin ‚lüp]
(cell and molecular biology)
Any double-stranded region of single-stranded deoxyribonucleic acid or ribonucleic acid formed by base-pairing between complementary base sequences on the same strand.


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Enhancement of dengue virus translation: role of the 3' untranslated region and the terminal 3' stem-loop domain.
The assays are based on a simple two-step process using Applied Biosystems' proprietary stem-loop technology for reverse transcription (RT) of the mature microRNA followed by quantitative real-time PCR.
Essentially no nucleotide was conserved in these regions or in a short sequence in the intergenic region between the GPC stop codon and the beginning of the RNA stem-loop structure (position 1532-1540).
 
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