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[–]bobbobbybob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The cap and tail are untranslated regions. They do not code for proteins, they are structural and functional elements important to the stability and expression of the mRNA.

normally the tail is a single repeating amino acid. pfizer has a chunk of code halfway through the tail....

Unless the full sequence has been published somewhere that I have not seen.

well, duh. it has