Emergencia catalizada por la polimerasa de transcripción de nuevas réplicas de ARN

Nimit Jain1,2,3, Lucas R Blauch4, Michal R Szymanski5,6,7

  • 1Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|March 29, 2020
PubMed
Resumen

Este estudio revela cómo las polimerasas de transcripción pueden regenerar plantillas de ARN, lo que permite la replicación y la evolución del ARN. Identificamos nuevos ARN replicantes y mecanismos clave para su origen y propagación.

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