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Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are best known for their role in decoding messenger RNA codons and translating them into amino acids. A comprehensive biochemical and structural investigation of the poxviral transcription apparatus uncovers a thus far unknown role of specific host tRNAs as assembly chaperones for a multisubunit RNA polymerase complex.