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What scientist found that some viruses have an RNA-dependent DNA polymerase that was later named reverse transcriptase?
Howard Temin
What enzyme converts RNA to DNA?
The enzyme that converts RNA to DNA is called reverse transcriptase. This enzyme is commonly found in retroviruses and is utilized in the process of reverse transcription, where RNA is used as a template to synthesize a complementary DNA strand.
What is MMLV Reverse Transcriptase?
MMLV Reverse Transcriptase is a type of enzyme commonly used in molecular biology techniques like reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). It can generate complementary DNA (cDNA) from RNA templates, making it a valuable tool for studying gene expression and RNA viruses. MMLV Reverse Transcriptase is named after the Moloney Murine Leukemia Virus, from which it was originally isolated.
What virus employs the use of an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase?
+RNA viruses
This scientist found that some viruses have an rna-dependent DNA polymerase tha was later named reverse transcriptase. he was one of the three who shared in the 1975 nobel prize in physiology or medic?
The scientist you are referring to is David Baltimore. He was one of the recipients of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the enzyme reverse transcriptase in viruses. This enzyme plays a crucial role in the replication of retroviruses like HIV.
What protein is found in some viruses?
Reverse transcriptase.
What are Retro Viruses?
Retroviruses are RNA viruses. Once they infect a living cell, they synthesize a complementary DNA strand (cDNA) of this RNA molecule using the enzyme REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE (basically RNA dependent DNA polymerase). The enzyme reverse transcriptase is coded by the viral genome itself and not the host's. The infecting virus carries an already synthesized enzyme. The RNA molecule in this RNA-DNA hybrid is then degraded. The DNA molecule then uses the host polymerases (DNA dependent DNA polymerase) and synthesize a daughter DNA strand to form a dsDNA molecule which then intergrates into the host genome.Central dogma follows DNA to RNA. Since these viruses go the other way around they are called as RETROVIRUSES. The well known HIV is an example for retrovirus.
What enzyme do viruses use to produce m-RNA?
reverse transcriptase
Is polymerase and replicase are the same?
Polymerase and replicase are similar but not the same. Polymerase is a more general term referring to enzymes that synthesize polymers, while replicase specifically refers to enzymes involved in replicating RNA viruses by copying RNA into new RNA strands. replicase is a type of polymerase.
What do you call viruses with the enzyme reverse transcriptase?
Retroviruses are considered a special class of viruses because they transcribe RNA to DNA using reverse transcriptase. HIV uses reverse transcription to synthesize a DNA strand using its RNA genome as a template.
Does RNA virus have Reverse transcriptases in them?
The RNA viruses that contain reverse transcriptases are collectively called retroviruses among which are: HIV, human immunodeficiency virus (AIDS); RNA tumor viruses (leukemia)
Most RNA viruses carry which enzymes?
Most RNA viruses carry RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) enzyme, which is responsible for replicating the viral RNA genome within host cells. This enzyme plays a crucial role in the viral life cycle by synthesizing complementary RNA strands from viral RNA templates.
