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A RNase P Ribozyme Inhibits Gene Expression and Replication of Hepatitis B Virus in Cultured Cells

open access: yesMicroorganisms, 2023
Hepatitis B virus (HBV), an international public health concern, is a leading viral cause of liver disease, such as hepatocellular carcinoma. Sequence-specific ribozymes derived from ribonuclease P (RNase P) catalytic RNA are being explored for gene ...
Bin Yan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of a Functionally Minimized Mutant of the R3C Ligase Ribozyme Offers Insight into the Plausibility of the RNA World Hypothesis

open access: yesBiology, 2014
The R3C ligase ribozyme is an artificial ligase ribozyme produced by modification of the ribozyme that lacks cytidine. Here, we attempted to modify the original R3C ribozyme (73 nucleotides) by reducing the number of nucleotides while maintaining the ...
Eri Kurihara   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

RNA interference approaches for treatment of HIV-1 infection. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
HIV/AIDS is a chronic and debilitating disease that cannot be cured with current antiretroviral drugs. While combinatorial antiretroviral therapy (cART) can potently suppress HIV-1 replication and delay the onset of AIDS, viral mutagenesis often leads to
Bobbin, Maggie L   +2 more
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Ribo-On and Ribo-Off tools using a self-cleaving ribozyme allow manipulation of endogenous gene expression in C. elegans

open access: yesCommunications Biology, 2023
Investigating gene function relies on the efficient manipulation of endogenous gene expression. Currently, a limited number of tools are available to robustly manipulate endogenous gene expression between “on” and “off” states. In this study, we insert a
Jie Fang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A ribozyme transcribed by a ribozyme [PDF]

open access: yesArtificial DNA: PNA & XNA, 2011
Prominent current ideas on how life emerged on Earth include an RNA world hypothesis in which RNA performed informational as well as catalytic functions in the absence of both DNA and protein. Demonstration of a self-replicative system based on ribonucleic acid polymers as both information carriers and catalysts would lend support to such a scenario. A
openaire   +3 more sources

RNA-Puzzles Round III: 3D RNA structure prediction of five riboswitches and one ribozyme

open access: yesRNA: A publication of the RNA Society, 2017
RNA-Puzzles is a collective experiment in blind 3D RNA structure prediction. We report here a third round of RNA-Puzzles. Five puzzles, 4, 8, 12, 13, 14, all structures of riboswitch aptamers and puzzle 7, a ribozyme structure, are included in this round
Zhichao Miao   +45 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The prebiotic evolutionary advantage of transferring genetic information from RNA to DNA. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In the early 'RNA world' stage of life, RNA stored genetic information and catalyzed chemical reactions. However, the RNA world eventually gave rise to the DNA-RNA-protein world, and this transition included the 'genetic takeover' of information storage ...
Chen, Irene A   +4 more
core   +4 more sources

Arginine cofactors on the polymerase ribozyme. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2011
The RNA world hypothesis states that the early evolution of life went through a stage in which RNA served both as genome and as catalyst. The central catalyst in an RNA world organism would have been a ribozyme that catalyzed RNA polymerization to ...
Chengguo Yao   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Origin of Life: Models and Data. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
A general framework for conventional models of the origin of life (OOL) is the specification of a 'privileged function.' A privileged function is an extant biological function that is excised from its biological context, elevated in importance over other
Lanier, Kathryn A, Williams, Loren Dean
core   +1 more source

Force for ancient and recent life: viral and stem-loop RNA consortia promote life. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Lytic viruses were thought to kill the most numerous host (i.e., kill the winner). But persisting viruses/defectives can also protect against viruses, especially in a ubiquitous virosphere. In 1991, Yarmolinsky et al.
Villarreal, Luis P
core   +1 more source

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