Pausing kinetics dominates strand-displacement polymerization by reverse transcriptase
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Pausing kinetics dominates strand-displacement polymerization by reverse transcriptase
Reverse transcriptase (RT) catalyzes the conversion of the viral RNA into an integration-competent double-stranded DNA, with a variety of enzymatic activities that include the ability to displace a non-template strand concomitantly with polymerization. Here, using high-resolution optical tweezers to follow the activity of the murine leukemia Virus RT, we show that strand-displacement polymeriza...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nucleic Acids Research
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0305-1048,1362-4962
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkx720