Brief Introduction

RETROVIRUS

















Retroviruses are RNA-containing viruses that uses enzyme, reverse transcriptase to copy their RNA into the DNA of a host cell.
Retroviruses have been isolated from a variety of vertebrate species, including humans, other mammals, reptiles, and fish. The family Retroviridae includes such important human pathogens as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and human Tlymphotropic virus (HTLV), the causes of AIDS and adult T-cell leukemia respectively. The study about this kind of virus led to the discovery of oncogenes, resulting in a quantum advance in the field of cancer genetics making Retro-viruses valuable research tools in molecular biology and gene therapy.
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