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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 1994
Filed:
Feb. 24, 1989
Sumiko Inouye, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Mei-Yin Hsu, North Plainfield, NJ (US);
Susan Eagle, South Amboy, NJ (US);
Masayori Inouye, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to an isolated bacterial reverse transcriptase. The reverse transcriptase synthesizes a peculiar RNA-DNA complex called msDNA which is a single-stranded DNA structure branched out from an RNA molecule. The gene coding for the reverse transcriptase has been isolated and sequenced. It codes for a polypeptide of 485 amino acid residues. This is the first time that a reverse transcriptase has been found, identified and isolated from a prokaryotic microorganism of which the amino acid sequence is shown in FIGS. 2a-2d.