A widely-used single polypeptide form of this enzyme is named for its involvement in Moloney murine leukemia.
A widely-used single polypeptide form of this enzyme is named for its involvement in Moloney murine leukemia. This enzyme names a catalytic subunit of telomerase that adds nucleotides in TTAGGG fashion to the end of telomeres. Along with integrase and protease, this enzyme is encoded by the pol gene. The Northern blot has largely been replaced with either a one- or two-step variant of (*) PCR involving this enzyme. This enzyme, which crucially acts as a ribonuclease H, has an unusually high error rate of one every 2000-4000 nucleotides. AZT and related drugs inhibit the activity of this enzyme, which produces complementary DNA from an RNA template. For 10 points, name this enzyme that retroviruses like HIV use to replicate. 
A widely-used single polypeptide form of this enzyme is named for its involvement in Moloney murine leukemia.
reverse transcriptase [or RT; or RNA-dependent DNA polymerase]