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The Sequential Mechanism of HIV Reverse Transcriptase RNase H
1 Dec 2000
Abstract excerpt
Synthesis of the minus strand of viral DNA by human immunodeficiency virus, type 1 (HIV-1) reverse transcriptase is accompanied by RNase H degradation of the viral RNA genome. RNA fragments remain after synthesis and are degraded by the polymerase-independent mode of RNase H cleavage. Recently, we showed that this mode of cleavage occurs by a specific ordered mechanism in which primary cuts are first, secondary...
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