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by Jonathan B Weitzman

RESEARCH ROUND-UP

Hammerhead selection

Hammerhead ribozymes appear to be the molecules of choice for self-cleaving RNAs.

Email: Jonathan B Weitzman - jonathanweitzman@hotmail.com
News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20011102-01

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2 November 2001

Hammerhead ribozymes with self-cleaving properties have been found in a range of organisms, including plants, newts, schistosomes and cave crickets. In the i November Nature, Salahi-Ashtiani and Szostak of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Massachusetts General Hospital describe an in vitro system to address the origins of hammerhead ribozymes (Nature 2001, 413:82-84).

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