The fidelity of reverse transcription differs in reactions primed with RNA versus DNA primers

Journal of Biomedical Science

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 121-132

  Oude Essink, Belinda B ^a   Berkhout, Ben ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Human Retrovirology ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Nucleotide misincorporation; Retrovital replication; Reverse transcriptase; Reverse transcription fidelity; RNA DNA and DNA DNA duplexes

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME CONFORMATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 0344521323     PISSN: 10217770     EISSN: 14230127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02256443     Document Type: Article

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