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Premature strand transfer by the HIV-1 reverse transcriptase during strong-stop DNA synthesis.
Nucleic acids research - 25 Jan 1994
Klaver B, Berkhout B
Abstract excerpt
Reverse transcription of retroviral genomes starts near the 5' end of the viral RNA by use of an associated tRNA primer. According to the current model of reverse transcription, the initial cDNA product, termed minus-strand strong-stop DNA, 'jumps' to a repeated sequence (R region) at the 3' end of the RNA template. The human retroviruses have relatively long R regions (97-247 nucleotides) when compared to murine...
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