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ReviewCellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS2010

Retroviral reverse transcriptases.

Alon Herschhorn, Amnon Hizi

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Review in Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
66citing papers in PubMed
7.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

66 citing papers in PubMed, 118 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Protease-mediated maturation of M-PMV reverse transcriptase into a functional heterodimer.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2026
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  6. Basic Virology.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026
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  7. Highly efficient production of HIV-1Journal of virology · 2025
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  18. Construction of A Preliminary Three-Dimensional StructureTropical life sciences research · 2020
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  20. An asymmetry that leads to activity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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6 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Alon HerschhornDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel.
Amnon Hizi
Tel Aviv University · IL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reverse transcription is a critical step in the life cycle of all retroviruses and related retrotransposons. This complex process is performed exclusively by the retroviral reverse transcriptase (RT) enzyme that converts the viral single-stranded RNA into integration-competent double-stranded DNA. Although all RTs have similar catalytic activities, they significantly differ in several aspects of their catalytic properties, their structures and subunit composition. The RT of human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1), the virus causing acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), is a prime target for the development of antiretroviral drug therapy of HIV-1/AIDS carriers. Therefore, despite the fundamental contributions of other RTs to the understanding of RTs and retrovirology, most recent RT studies are related to HIV-1 RT. In this review we summarize the basic properties of different RTs. These include, among other topics, their structures, enzymatic activities, interactions with both viral and host proteins, RT inhibition and resistance to antiretroviral drugs.

Indexed as

Acquired Immunodeficiency SyndromeAnti-HIV AgentsHIVHIV Reverse TranscriptaseHumansLeukemia Virus, MurineModels, MolecularRetroviridaeRNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseRNA, ViralTranscription, GeneticAnti-HIV AgentsHIV Reverse TranscriptaseRNA-Directed DNA PolymeraseRNA, Viral

Identifiers

PMID20358252
PMCPMC11115783
OpenAlexW2077535774

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