A Singular and Widespread Group of Mobile Genetic Elements: RNA Circles with Autocatalytic Ribozymes

Small circRNAs with self-cleaving ribozymes are highly expressed in diverse metazoan transcriptomes

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Mammalian deltavirus without hepadnavirus coinfection in the neotropical rodentProechimys semispinosus

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Identification of a Novel Deltavirus in Boa Constrictors

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Enveloped viruses distinct from HBV induce dissemination of hepatitis D virus in vivo

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The Biogenesis, Functions, and Challenges of Circular RNAs

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The depths of virus exaptation

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A Divergent Hepatitis D-Like Agent in Birds

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Giant Reverse Transcriptase-Encoding Transposable Elements at Telomeres

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The Hammerhead Ribozyme: A Long History for a Short RNA

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Circular RNAs with hammerhead ribozymes encoded in eukaryotic genomes: The enemy at home

(2017) Marcos de la Peña et al.   RNA Biology

Numerous small hammerhead ribozyme variants associated with Penelope-like retrotransposons cleave RNA as dimers

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Transposable Element Domestication As an Adaptation to Evolutionary Conflicts

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Viroids: “living fossils” of primordial RNAs?

(2016) Theodor O. Diener   Biology Direct

Diverse alternative back-splicing and alternative splicing landscape of circular RNAs

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New classes of self-cleaving ribozymes revealed by comparative genomics analysis

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Chemistry and Biology of Self-Cleaving Ribozymes

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Viroids, the simplest RNA replicons: How they manipulate their hosts for being propagated and how their hosts react for containing the infection

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Hepatitis D Virus: Introduction and Epidemiology

(2015) Mario Rizzetto   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine

Viroids: Survivors from the RNA World?

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Eukaryotic Penelope-Like Retroelements Encode Hammerhead Ribozyme Motifs

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circRNA Biogenesis Competes with Pre-mRNA Splicing

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Circular RNA Is Expressed across the Eukaryotic Tree of Life

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Novel coding, translation, and gene expression of a replicating covalently closed circular RNA of 220 nt

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Lariat intronic RNAs in the cytoplasm ofXenopus tropicalisoocytes

(2014) Gaëlle J.S. Talhouarne et al.   RNA

Circular RNAs: diversity of form and function

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Natural RNA circles function as efficient microRNA sponges

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Circular RNAs are a large class of animal RNAs with regulatory potency

(2013) Sebastian Memczak et al.   NATURE

A widespread self-cleaving ribozyme class is revealed by bioinformatics

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Intronic hammerhead ribozymes in mRNA biogenesis

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Involvement of the Chloroplastic Isoform of tRNA Ligase in the Replication of Viroids Belonging to the Family Avsunviroidae

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A Highly Conserved, Small LTR Retrotransposon that Preferentially Targets Genes in Grass Genomes

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Circular RNAs Are the Predominant Transcript Isoform from Hundreds of Human Genes in Diverse Cell Types

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The ubiquitous hammerhead ribozyme

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Circular RNAs are abundant, conserved, and associated with ALU repeats

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Structure-based Search Reveals Hammerhead Ribozymes in the Human Microbiome

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Processing and Translation Initiation of Non-long Terminal Repeat Retrotransposons by Hepatitis Delta Virus (HDV)-like Self-cleaving Ribozymes

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Identification of an hepatitis delta virus-like ribozyme at the mRNA 5′-end of the L1Tc retrotransposon from Trypanosoma cruzi

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Identification of Hammerhead Ribozymes in All Domains of Life Reveals Novel Structural Variations

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Intronic hammerhead ribozymes are ultraconserved in the human genome

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R2 Retrotransposons Encode a Self-Cleaving Ribozyme for Processing from an rRNA Cotranscript

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From alpaca to zebrafish: Hammerhead ribozymes wherever you look

(2010) C. Seehafer et al.   RNA

Ubiquitous presence of the hammerhead ribozyme motif along the tree of life

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Widespread Occurrence of Self-Cleaving Ribozymes

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A discontinuous hammerhead ribozyme embedded in a mammalian messenger RNA

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Structure–function analysis of the ribozymes of chrysanthemum chlorotic mottle viroid: a loop–loop interaction motif conserved in most natural hammerheads

(2008) David Dufour et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Capturing Hammerhead Ribozyme Structures in Action by Modulating General Base Catalysis

(2008) Young-In Chi et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY