Reverse transcriptase

[Karl Fischer]

In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.950526212250.3794B-100000 at corona>, Patrick
O'Neil <patrick at corona> wrote:

> > 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. 

If anyone is interested, the paper is "Expression of functional hepatitis
b virus polymerase in yeast reveals it to be the sole viral protein
required for correct initiation of reverse transcription" by John Travis
and Don Ganem in PNAS v.90 p.4107-4111, 1993.

 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...

Don't be so hard on yourself Patrick...I, for one, am always interested in
reading your informative postings.

Cheers

Karl

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