New England Biolabs (NEB®) announced today that they have released a novel, thermostable reverse transcriptase, WarmStart® RTx Reverse Transcriptase, specifically designed for nucleic acid detection.

The mechanism of action of NNRTIs is illustrated in Figure 1. Reverse transcriptase catalyzes RNA-dependent and DNA-dependent polymerase activities, which are essential for viral DNA synthesis when ...

Viral reverse transcriptase (RT) plays a critical role in replication (e.g., retroviruses, that reverse transcribe RNA templates into complementary DNA) and genome mutations (e.g., ...

RNA polymerases are sloppy. A retrovirus with an RNA genome, which is copied into DNA by a reverse transcriptase, is prone to mutations because the enzyme lacks the 3’ to 5’ proofreading capability of ...

† Drugs combined with NRTIs or NRTIs/NNRTIs are not listed. NNRTIs: Non-nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitors; NRTIs: Nucleos(t)ide analog reverse-transcriptase inhibitors. Drug-resistance amino ...

One of the hallmarks of many DNA polymerases is that they proofread as they copy DNA, ensuring high-fidelity duplicates of an organism’s genome. This error-checking ability is missing from enzymes ...

The global reverse transcriptase enzymes industry has witnessed remarkable growth and is anticipated to further expand, reaching a valuation of US$ 335.0 Million in 2022 and projected to escalate to ...

New research shows a transcriptase that helps time cell death varies in expression, and is unusually localized, in cancer cells. The transcriptase, Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase (TERT), is ...

Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia and affects more than a tenth of Americans aged 65 and older. The disease has proven difficult to develop new treatments for, and available ...

Viral reverse transcriptase (RT) plays a critical role in replication (e.g., retroviruses, that reverse transcribe RNA templates into complementary DNA) and genome mutations (e.g., ...