Structural Biochemistry/Reverse transcriptase

Reverse Transcriptase is an enzyme to make a DNA copy of an RNA molecule. It is used in retrovirus reaction where genetic information flows from RNA to DNA.

single stranded RNA --(reverse transcriptase to synthesize RNA to DNA)--> double stranded DNA-RNA hybrid --(reverse transcriptase is used again to degrade RNA)--> single stranded DNA transcript --(reverse transcriptase to synthesize the second strand of DNA)--> double stranded DNA