@misc{10481/68705, year = {1997}, month = {6}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/68705}, abstract = {Mediante el uso de homopolímeros sintéticos e inhibidores específicos se ha demostrado la presencia de una actividad RT-like en Trypanosoma cruzi, parásito responsable de la enfermedad de Chagas. Además se ha mostrado que éste parásito presenta en su genoma un elemento móvil del tipo no-LTR, denominado LITc. La proteína recombinante obtenida a partir del ORF2 del referido elemento muestra actividad transcriptasa inversa. Esta actividad enzimática codificada por el elemento L1Tc, unida al hecho de que L1Tc fuese aislado a partir de un mensajero, evidencia que el mismo es funcional como elemento móvil por retrotransposición.}, abstract = {By using synthetic homopolyrners and specific inhibitors the presence of a RT-Iike activity was revealed to be present in Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite responsible for the Chagas' disease. We show, moreover, that this parasite has in its genome a non-LTR type mobile element, denominated L1Tc, and that the recombinant protein obtained from translation of the ORF2 of this element exhibits retrotranscriptase activity. The presence of a RT-líke activity in the nuclear fraction of the parasite, the fact that the L1Tc element was isolated as a cDNA and that the ORF2 derived protein has RT-like activity strongly suggest that L1Tc may well be responsible for the detected nuclear RT-like activity and that it functions as an active mobile element for retrotransposition.}, publisher = {Universidad de Granada, Facultad de Farmacia}, keywords = {Trypanosoma cruzi}, keywords = {Polimerasa ARN-dependiente}, keywords = {Homopolímeros}, keywords = {ARN}, keywords = {Inhibidores RT}, title = {Actividad RT-like en el elemento móvil L1Tc}, author = {Gónzález, C. L. and Thomas, M.C. and Martín, F. and López, M.C.}, }