Talk:Reverse transcriptase

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[edit] Rewrite tag

I am not entirely sure, but as far as I remember RTase added dTs opposite As in the RNA. I am not sure dUs even exist in cells. The ASCII diagram urgently needs to be replaced, IMO. The sectioning makes the article difficult to read. Most sections should either be significant expanded or merged into other sections or introduction. There are several factual errors as well. For example, RNA viruses are definitely not synonymous with retroviruses. True RNA viruses, such as picornaviruses (eg. Polio)), unlike retroviruses never go through a DNA stage and use an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase rather than a reverse transcriptase. In light of all this I am replacing the cleanup tag with a rewrite tag. Peter Znamenskiy 20:36, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Agreed, this article is woefully organised and badly in need of some error fixing. Two subheadings called examples! Crikey. It's going on my to-do list -- Serephine ♠ talk - 05:51, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

Cleanup done, citations replaced. Things still need to be done include:

• a diagram for the process of reverse transcription
• a diagram of the structure of a RT
• More information on the structure of RT

-- Serephine ♠ talk - 09:00, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Brilliant work! I will try to expand the stucture section when I get fulltext access to e-journals. Peter Z.^Talk 16:21, 21 June 2006 (UTC)