Novel mechanism for reverse transcription in hepatitis B viruses
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Reverse transcription in hepatitis B viruses is primed by a tyrosine residue of the polymerase.
All known DNA polymerases require primers for the initiation of DNA synthesis. While cellular polymerases and reverse transcriptases use free hydroxyl groups of RNA or DNA, the DNA polymerases of certain animal viruses and bacteriophages depend upon hydroxyl groups of amino acid residues within proteins as primers for DNA synthesis. Recently, the reverse transcriptase of a hepadnavirus has been...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Virology
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0022-538X,1098-5514
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.67.11.6507-6512.1993