Abstract
We have examined the human mammary tumor cell line T47D and have found that these cells produce virus-like particles which band at the typical density for retroviral particles on a sucrose gradient, possess reverse transcriptase activity, and package HERV-K10-like sequences. Using this information and a bacterial expression system to identify long open reading frames, we have identified individual clones which have full-length open reading frames for reverse transcriptase and RNase H and which could encode the reverse transcriptase activity detected in these cells.
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