Reverse transcriptases can clamp together nucleic acids strands with two complementary bases at their 3′-termini for initiating DNA synthesis

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1042-1053

  Oz Gleenberg, Iris ^a   Herschhorn, Alon ^a   Hizi, Amnon ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEIC ACID; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SYNTHESIS; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; HIV REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; RNA; TEMPLATES, GENETIC;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 79951569245     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq786     Document Type: Article

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