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Natural and unnatural ribozymes: Back to the primordial RNA world

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RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 160, Issue 7, Pages 457-465

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2009.05.005

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RNA world hypothesis; Ribozymes; Ribosomes; Translation machinery

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  1. Italian Space Agency

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We review natural and in vitro selected ribozymes, for which combined studies could provide us with both insight into the functions performed by ancient RNA molecules in a primitive RNA world and a hypothesis about evolutionary steps that led to the contemporary world. (C) 2009 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.

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