Reverse transcriptase

[Patrick O'Neil]

On Fri, 26 May 1995, Karl Fischer wrote:

> 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
[...]

Thank you.  Yes I erred in that Ty elements do code for a protein that 
leads to virus-like particles in the yeast cytoplasm.  Doh!
I suppose I should not fire from the hip so often and perhaps throw a 
little more consideration into a reply before I fire away...


Patrick