Genes
Retrovirus genomes commonly contain these three open reading frames that encode for proteins that can be found in the mature virus:
- group-specific antigen (gag) codes for core and structural proteins of the virus;
- polymerase (pol) codes for reverse transcriptase, protease and integrase; and,
- envelope (env) codes for the retroviral coat proteins.
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