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Science 2 September 2005:
Vol. 309. no. 5740, pp. 1530 - 1531
DOI: 10.1126/science.1117957
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Capping by Branching: A New Ribozyme Makes Tiny Lariats

Anna Marie Pyle

The number of naturally occurring RNA enzymes has just been expanded by the discovery of a new branching ribozyme. But this ribozyme has unexpected relatives: group I introns.

Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Yale University, 266 Whitney Avenue, Bass Building Room 334, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.

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