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Preferred term

RNA-Directed DNA Polymerase  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • An enzyme that synthesizes DNA on an RNA template. It is encoded by the pol gene of retroviruses and by certain retrovirus-like elements. EC 2.7.7.49.

Entry terms

  • Deoxynucleotide-triphosphate:DNA deoxynucleotidyltransferase (RNA-directed)
  • DNA Polymerase, RNA-Directed
  • Reverse Transcriptase
  • Revertase
  • RNA-Dependent DNA Polymerase
  • RNA Transcriptase

In other languages

  • French

  • ADN polymérase ARN-dépendante
  • Deoxynucleotide-triphosphate:DNA deoxynucleotidyltransferase (RNA-directed)
  • Rétrotranscriptase
  • Reverse transcriptase
  • Transcriptase inverse

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-S8V653FP-S

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