Reverse transcriptase

Reverse transcriptase (fig. 1) is a protein, belonging to the class of enzymes class, whose function is to generate complementary DNA (cDNA) from an RNA template. The mechanism is named reverse transcription. In other words, this enzyme polymerises DNA molecules from RNA, giving origin to a complementary nucleotide sequence.

Figure 1 : Tridimensional format of the enzyme reverse transcriptase.

 (Source: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcriptase_reversa#/media/File:Reverse_transcriptase_3KLF_labels.png)

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