Retrovirus - Genes

Genes

Retrovirus genomes commonly contain these three open reading frames that encode for proteins that can be found in the mature virus:

  • group-specific antigen (gag) codes for core and structural proteins of the virus;
  • polymerase (pol) codes for reverse transcriptase, protease and integrase; and,
  • envelope (env) codes for the retroviral coat proteins.

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