Its complementary strand is called antisense (or negative (-) sense).
To open the hinge, a strand complementary to the fuel strand is put into the solution.
In this system the full leader sequence has 4 blocks of complementary strands that can form hairpin loops structures.
This stalling of the ribosome will allow complementary strands 2 and 3 to form a hairpin loop.
The complementary strands can undergo recombination and join two 5kb inserted fragments together.
These segments and the complementary strands are that are packaged separately giving rise to 4 different types of full particles.
Note that because of permutation and the complementary strand there are several names for each repeat type.
Further rounds of replication 'fix' the change by incorporating a normal nitrogen base into the complementary strand.
ML2 represents the complementary strand with the corresponding modified nt.
The complementary strands are also packaged giving rise to 4 distinct types of full particles.