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RNA cleavage by small catalytic RNAs

Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 1995
Recent studies of the hammerhead ribozyme have provided an insight into its three-dimensional structure. In addition, studies using chemical probes, functional-group modification and mutational analysis, in combination with computer modelling, have led to proposals for the structure of both the hairpin and hepatitis delta virus ribozymes.
T, Tuschl, J B, Thomson, F, Eckstein
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SMALL CATALYTIC RNAs

Annual Review of Biochemistry, 1992
PERSPECTIVES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641 ROLLING CIRCLE REPLICATION REQUIRES SPECIFIC RNA CLEAVAGE . . . . . . . 643 SELF-CLEAVAGE OF RNA VIA THE HAMMERHEAD STRUCTURE.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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The catalytic diversity of RNAs

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2005
The natural RNA enzymes catalyse phosphate-group transfer and peptide-bond formation. Initially, metal ions were proposed to supply the chemical versatility that nucleotides lack. In the ensuing decades, structural and mechanistic studies have substantially altered this initial viewpoint.
Martha J, Fedor, James R, Williamson
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Catalytic RNAs

2015
This chapter looks at how RNA molecules catalyse chemical reactions, a domain which was previously thought to be reserved only for proteins. It clarifies that RNA has a more limited set of functional groups for building catalysts, which are confined to just four different nucleotides: A, C, G, and U.
David Elliott, Michael Ladomery
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Self-cleaving catalytic RNA.

The FASEB Journal, 1993
We describe the structures and catalytic properties of several naturally occurring self-cleaving RNA motifs that give 2', 3' cyclic phosphate products. The hammerhead and hairpin motifs are derived from plant pathogenic RNAs and the delta motif is part of the human hepatitis delta element. A fourth motif from Neurospora is less well characterized.
D M, Long, O C, Uhlenbeck
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Catalytic metallodrugs targeting HCV IRES RNA

Chemical Communications, 2012
A catalytic metallodrug that targets stem-loop IIb of the internal ribosomal entry site (IRES) RNA of hepatitis C virus (HCV) demonstrates enzyme-like turnover with K(M) of 0.85 μM, k(cat) of 0.53 min(-1), and a turnover number of 31.9 for Cu·GGHYrFK-amide (1-Cu), and yielded an antiviral activity (IC(50)) of 0.58 μM in an HCV cellular replicon assay.
Seth, Bradford, J A, Cowan
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The relationship between RNA catalytic processes

Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere, 1988
Proposals that an RNA-based genetic system preceded DNA, stem from the ability of RNA to store genetic information and to promote simple catalysis. However, to be a valid basis for the RNA world, RNA catalysis must demonstrate or be related to intrinsic chemical properties which could have existed in primordial times.
R, Cedergren, B F, Lang, D, Gravel
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