Ribozymes are RNA molecules that are capable of catalyzing a chemical reaction. Ribozymes occur naturally inside cells where they play an essential role in the ribosome, joining amino acids together ...

Important progress for RNA research: A team has discovered a new ribozyme that can label RNA molecules in living cells. RNA molecules are real all-rounders. They transfer the genetic information from ...

In new research published in the journal Angewandte Chemie, scientists applied a high throughput methodology to study the ribozyme in an innovative way. While work in this area has typically used ...

RNA molecules are real all-rounders. They transfer the genetic information from the DNA in the cell. They regulate the activity of genes. And some of them have a catalytic effect: just like enzymes, ...

In the present study, as an alternative strategy for survivin inhibition, we designed two hammerhead ribozymes against human survivin mRNA and examined the function of the ribozymes and the effects of ...

A study finds that an RNA enzyme, or ribozyme, can evolve to produce complex RNAs efficiently but at the cost of synthesis accuracy. Key to the development of RNA-based life, which is thought to have ...

RNA is a central biological macromolecule, now widely harnessed in medicine and nanotechnology. Like proteins, RNA function often depends on its precise three-dimensional structure. A recent study ...

Although ribozymes capable of performing a wide range of reactions have been evolved in the lab, only a handful of classes of these RNA-based catalysts are found in nature. Now, a new type of ribozyme ...

Santa Cruz, CA — Which came first, nucleic acids or proteins? This question is molecular biology’s version of the “chicken-or-the-egg” riddle. Genes made of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA) contain the ...

RNA molecules are real all-rounders. They transfer the genetic information from the DNA in the cell. They regulate the activity of genes. And some of them have a catalytic effect: just like enzymes, ...