Natural and unnatural ribozymes: Back to the primordial RNA world

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 160, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 457-465

  Talini, Giulia ^a   Gallori, Enzo ^a   Maurel, Marie Christine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Ribosomes; Ribozymes; RNA world hypothesis; Translation machinery

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBOZYME; RNA; RNA LIGASE; RNA POLYMERASE; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CELL ORGANELLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IN VITRO STUDY; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RIBOSOME; RIBOSWITCH; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA METABOLISM; RNA SPLICING; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION;

DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC;

EID: 70349995865     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: 17697123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2009.05.005     Document Type: Article

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