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From: jrd@mit-amt.MIT.EDU (Jim Davis)
Newsgroups: net.bio
Subject: anti RNA reverse transcriptase as HTLV therapy
Message-ID: <17@mit-amt.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 19:54:38 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  8 19:54:38 1985
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Keywords: AIDS

Can someone say whether a human needs to have any RNA
reverse-transciptase?  If not, could one not design an enzyme specially
made to disable it, and inhibit HTLV by placing large amounts of said
enzyme in one's body?  I suppose you'd need to have some "friendly"
infectious organism in order to synthesize the quantities needed.  Is
recombinant technology anywhere near able to do this?