Retroviral Reverse Transcriptases (Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit)

A brief but current overview of an enzyme that reverses the usual process by synthesizing a DNA strand using a complementary RNA strand as a template, with special emphasis on recent data concerning the HIV-1 species. Covers the discovery, biosynthesis, structure, and initiation complex of reverse transcriptase; elongation and recombination events; fidelity; retroviral ribonuclease H; and inhibitors. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.