The mauriceville plasmid reverse transcriptase can initiate cDNA synthesis de novo and may be related to reverse transcriptase and DNA polymerase progenitor

Cell

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 1071-1081

  Wang, He ^a   Lambowitz, Alan M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA STRAND; DNA SYNTHESIS; MITOCHONDRION; NEUROSPORA; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

NEUROSPORA;

EID: 0027141464     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(93)90317-J     Document Type: Article

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