In this analysis, we also detected an additional RNA species (arrow in Figure 5B ), which was determined to be a defective-interfering (DI) RNA by northern blot analysis using a probe representing the 5¢-untranslated region (without the leader), which is present only in genomic and DI RNAs (data not shown). Interestingly, this DI RNA was inhibited to a greater extent than other RNA species in DBT-A1DC cells. This result suggests that the replication of DI RNAs is more sensitive to the dominant-negative inhibition by cytoplasmic hnRNP A1.