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A Ty1 reverse transcriptase active-site aspartate mutation blocks transposition but not polymerization.
Journal of virology - 1 Jul 2001
Uzun O, Gabriel A
Abstract excerpt
Reverse transcriptases (RTs) are found in a wide variety of mobile genetic elements including viruses, retrotransposons, and infectious organellar introns. An invariant triad of aspartates is thought to be required for the catalytic function of RTs. We generated RT mutants in the yeast retrotransposon Ty1, changing each of these active-site aspartates to asparagine or glutamate. All but one of the mutants lacked...
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