Widespread occurrence of self-cleaving ribozymes.

作者： C.-H. T. Webb , N. J. Riccitelli , D. J. Ruminski , A. Luptak

DOI: 10.1126/SCIENCE.1178084

关键词: Biology 、 Expressed sequence tag 、 Eukaryote 、 Protein secondary structure 、 Virus 、 Anopheles gambiae 、 Insect virus 、 Ribozyme 、 Polyadenylation 、 Genetics

摘要: … Our results indicate that HDV-like ribozymes are abundant in nature and suggest that self-cleaving RNAs may play a variety of biological roles. Self-cleaving ribozymes are autocatalytic …

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