ppt课件-reversetranscriptaseandretroviruses-certainviruses.pptVIP

Retroviruses (Chap. 15, p.308) and Gene Regulation (Chap. 14) Viruses that use the enzyme reverse transcriptase to make sequences of single and double-stranded DNA sequences from RNA Example- AIDS the genome of HIV is made up of RNA, not DNA reverse transcriptase has a high error rate (up to about 1 in 2,000 bases) when transcribing RNA into DNA; this allows retroviruses to mutate rapidly when HIV enters lymphocyte cells, it makes DNA from RNA using reverse transcriptase this DNA becomes inserted into the lymphocyte’s chromosomes now when the lymphocyte replicates, the viral DNA is replic