The phrase "as a transcriptase" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in scientific or technical contexts, particularly in discussions about enzymes or molecular biology.
Example: "The enzyme functions as a transcriptase, facilitating the synthesis of RNA from a DNA template."
Alternatives: "in the role of a transcriptase" or "serving as a transcriptase".
Telomerase is a ribonuclear protein complex minimally consisting of protein (TERT) and RNA (TERC) components that act as a reverse transcriptase to extend telomeres at the ends of linear chromosomes [4], [5].
The first requires a specialized enzyme, called telomerase, which is able to copy, as a reverse transcriptase, the short TTAGGG motif at the 3' end of telomeres; the activity of telomerase is tightly controlled by shelterin [2].
It is a nucleotide analogue and acts as a reverse transcriptase inhibitor.
In addition, similar results were obtained for T7 and Taq DNA polymerases as well as a reverse transcriptase.
Telomerase is an enzymatic ribonucleoprotein complex that acts as a reverse transcriptase in the elongation of telomeres.
Modulating these signals is an attenuation factor A ij, which parameterizes the loss of signal, as a reverse transcriptase must polymerize from j back to i.
In the late 1980s, studies in ciliates lead to the identification of the RNA subunit TER [ 6] that encodes the template region for telomeric repeat synthesis and functions as a reverse transcriptase [ 6,7].
Thus, the location of the insertional mutation of Wogon-Sugi is likely to affect some kind of functional domain in MatK, though it is not clear whether it is an important functional domain such as a reverse-transcriptase (RT) domain, domain X (the proposed maturase functional domain), and a zinc-finger-like domain (Mohr et al. 1993).
Telomerase can now be defined as a specialized reverse transcriptase.
Lopinavir, a protease inhibitor, is listed as a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor in both a table and the text.
