Crossword clues for transcriptase
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1963, from transcription + -ase.
Wiktionary
n. (context enzyme English) A polymerase that catalyzes the transcription of DNA to RNA.
WordNet
n. a polymerase associated with the process of transcription
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "transcriptase".
And you have reverse transcriptase, an enzyme almost always found in association with viruses.
In the most crucial phase of his work, Vergil had used viral reverse transcriptase to fix the feedback loop between RNA and DNA.
One's a retrovirus, the other's not, but you can convert RNA into viral DNA with reverse transcriptase.
Deep in the planetary biosphere, vectors armed with reverse transcriptase and strange artificial chromosomes were at work.
One of the commonest genes we have is for a protein called reverse transcriptase, which has no known beneficial function in human beings at all.