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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 22.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Virus Res. 2013;86:1–36. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394315-6.00001-5

Fig. 4.

Fig. 4

Schematic diagram of L-A cap-snatching mechanism. Gag of an L-A virion decaps mRNA and forms an intermediate with m7Gp through His-154. Then m7Gp is transferred to the diphosphorylated 5’ end of the viral transcript to form a 5’-5’ triphosphate linkage.