Viral reverse transcriptases show selective high affinity binding to DNA-DNA primer-templates that resemble the polypurine tract.

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Published in PLoS One on July 27, 2012

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Gauri R Nair1, Chandravanu Dash, Stuart F J Le Grice, Jeffrey J DeStefano

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1: Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America.

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