Reverse transcriptase

[Karl Fischer]

In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.950525170540.20830A-100000 at corona>, Patrick
O'Neil <patrick at corona> wrote:


> proteins...but this is not bacteria.  Another Drosophila element, gypsy,
> does not produce virus-like particles and neither do Ty elements in yeast 
> or LINE elements in mammals.
> 
Hmmm...I was under the impression that Ty elements DO produce
intracellular virus-like particles since this was employed by Don Ganem's
group to express duck hepatitis B virus reverse transcriptase; they
substituted the endogenous RT ORF of Ty with that of the DHBV and found
that the enzyme was encapsidated by 
Ty-A (the structural protein). 

Ever curiously,

Karl

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Karl Fischer
kfischer at gpu.srv.ualberta.ca
tyr-2 at bones.biochem.ualberta.ca