Reverse transcriptase: Difference between revisions

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-==Structure and Function==
+==Structure==
-This Reverse Transcriptase is a RNA-dependent <scene name='Reverse_transcriptase/Chains/1'>2-chain</scene> DNA Polymerase has an usual length of 1000 residues (560 in chain A and 440 for B), the third of them involved in alpha helical and almost a quarter in beta sheets <scene name='Reverse_transcriptase/Secondary/1'>secondary structures</scene>. Chain A has an usual
+This ''hand-like'' <scene name='Reverse_transcriptase/Chains/1'>heterodimer</scene> protein that has an usual length of 1000 residues(560 in Chain A and 440 for B), the third of them involved in alpha helical and almost a quarter in beta sheets <scene name='Reverse_transcriptase/Secondary/1'>secondary structures</scene>; chain A with an usual weight of 65KDa contains the two actives sites and has the most conserved aminoacids, whereas chain B is around 50KDa and has more variable areas, result of drug resistant and function related evolution. [http://consurfdb.tau.ac.il/chain_selection.php?pdb_ID=1JLB]
+==Function==
+RNA-dependent DNA Polymerase
 ==See Also==

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