Multiple choice

Which of the following statements is WRONG regarding the human immune deficiency virus?

  1. Gag gene encodes for the lipid bilayer of the virus.

  2. p32 is an Integrase.

  3. p10 is a protease enzyme that breaks gag precursor.

  4. The reverse transcriptase enzyme is a prominent feature of retroviruses.

  5. HIV is roughly spherical in shape.
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Explanation

The gag gene is encoded as a large gag-pol protein with another gene then cleaved to the precursor protein assemblin, which is then cleaved to Gag. It is involved in virion assembly and produces some of the capsid and nucleocapsid proteins. It does not encode for the lipid bilayer of the virus.

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