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Hepadnavirus reverse transcription initiates within the stem-loop of the RNA packaging signal and employs a novel strand transfer.
Journal of virology - 1 Jun 1994
Tavis J E, Perri S, Ganem D
Abstract excerpt
Replication of the hepadnavirus genome occurs by reverse transcription of an RNA pregenome and is mediated by the viral polymerase; the polymerase is also required for packaging of the pregenome through interaction with the RNA packaging signal, epsilon. Previous work suggested that reverse transcription of minus-strand DNA initiates within the sequence element DR1 (direct repeat 1) and that disruption of DR1...
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