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The mechanism is called reverse transcription. It’s a well known exception to the “central dogma of molecular biology”.
by programmarchy 6y ago
The mechanism is called reverse transcription. It’s a well known exception to the “central dogma of molecular biology”.
- nickthemagicman 6y agoThank you. And it uses the enzyme integrase to integrate into the host cells genome and reverse transcriptase to create DNA from RNA. Anyone who has looked into any science beyond what the media talks about knows this about HIV. What's even more interesting is that there's latent reservoirs in a person's body that we don't know where they are so that even after we get someone's viral count undetectable with meds, if they stop the medicine hov can come back