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Processing of the primer for plus strand DNA synthesis by human immunodeficiency virus 1 reverse transcriptase.
1 Jun 1990
Abstract excerpt
We have analyzed the processing of the RNA primer for (+) strand DNA synthesis by reverse transcriptase of the human immunodeficiency virus 1. To test for specific RNA cleavage and primer usage, we constructed a 99-base pair RNA-DNA hybrid containing the viral polypurine tract and flanking viral sequences. Although the RNase H activity of reverse transcriptase cleaves the RNA strand into multiple fragments, only...
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