In article <1mbqejINNj75 at geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> bard at ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Don Hayward) writes:
>I know that AIDS and other retroviri have the enzyme Reverse Transcriptase
>inside the protein coat with the RNA. Are there any other viri that carry an
>important enzyme within the protein coat?
>
All -ve stranded RNA viruses must carry at least the enzymes required for
replication of RNA to the point where other non-structural proteins which
are required for viral replication are transcribed into mRNA. Negative
stranded RNA viruses possess a genome which cannot function as mRNA.
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