Re:Understanding mRNA Covid-19 vaccines
by nicwilson on Saturday December 12, 2020 @11:11PM
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because thats not what mRNA and normal cellular processes do and there is no mechanism in the body to allow that to happen.
Reverse transcription only happens when a reverse transcriptase (found in retro-viruses, e.g. HIV-1, HIV-2, Hepatitis B Virus etc) does that and the RNA is the direct viral genome or a transcript of the viral DNA (for DNA viruses). They have special marker sequences at either end to facilitate this (search for terminal repeats)
Reverse transcription only happens when a reverse transcriptase (found in retro-viruses, e.g. HIV-1, HIV-2, Hepatitis B Virus etc) does that and the RNA is the direct viral genome or a transcript of the viral DNA (for DNA viruses). They have special marker sequences at either end to facilitate this (search for terminal repeats)
SARS-CoV-2 is not a retrovirus.