Explore: Ribozymes

RNA biosynthesis. Examples of ribozymes include the hammerhead ribozyme, the VS ribozyme, leadzyme, and the hairpin ribozyme. Researchers who are investigating

hammerhead ribozymes has been severely hampered by its low-level activity in vivo. The true catalytic potential of trans-cleaving hammerhead ribozymes may be

(ribozymes) can catalyze (start or accelerate) chemical reactions that are critical for life, so it is conceivable that in an RNA world, ribozymes might

hairpin ribozymes for potential therapeutic use, for example by preventing the replication of pathogenic viruses. Antiviral hairpin ribozymes have been

group II ribozymes. These motifs can self-splice by cleaving and joining phosphodiester bonds. The last ribozyme motif, the RNase P ribozyme, is found

or ribozymes. While in the Szostak lab, Doudna re-engineered the self-splicing Tetrahymena Group I catalytic intron into a true catalytic ribozyme that

VS ribozyme undergo horizontal gene transfer with other Neurospora strains. VS ribozymes have nothing in common with other nucleolytic ribozymes. VS

self-cleaving ribozyme was suggested by the similarity between genes nearby to twister ribozymes and genes nearby to hammerhead ribozymes, Indeed, the

oxygen atoms in the transition state. A category of ribozymes called small ribonucleolytic ribozymes enhances the spontaneity of the cleavage of their own

with Twister and Hammerhead ribozymes, or RAGATH. Comparative analysis of 501 unique samples of pistol ribozyme from ribozyme-associated gene classes and