An unusual mechanism of self-primed reverse transcription requires the RNase H domain of reverse transcriptase to cleave an RNA duplex

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 5645-5654

  Levin, Henry L ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; RIBONUCLEASE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LIGATION; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; YEAST;

SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; UNIDENTIFIED RETROVIRUS;

EID: 0029831105     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.10.5645     Document Type: Article

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