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Retroviruses employ the RNA-dependent DNA polymerase (reverse transcriptase) within their capsid to replicate their RNA genome into a DNA intermediate, which can be incorporated (as a v-gene) into the host cell's DNA by an integrase enzyme.

Cellular proto-oncogenes resident in transforming retroviruses are designated as c- (cellular origin) as opposed to v- (retroviral origin).

¤ v-Fos ¤ v-Sis ¤ v-Myc ¤  Oncogenes Proto-oncogenes 

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