Sentences with phrase «ribozymes from»
There are already some companies dedicated to bringing ribozymes from the laboratory to the commercial world, with potential applications as sensitive sensors of biowarfare germs or as medical diagnostic tests.
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A catalytic RNA (ribozyme) derived from an intervening sequence (IVS) RNA of Tetrahymena thermophila will catalyze an RNA polymerization reaction in which pentacytidylic acid (C5) is extended by the successive addition of mononucleotides derived from a guanylyl -(3», 5»)- nucleotide (GpN).
Ribozymes derived from the self - splicing pre-ribosomal RNA of Tetrahymena act as sequence - specific endonucleases.
A reversible local folding step in which a duplex docks and undocks from the ribozyme core was observed directly in single - molecule time trajectories, allowing the determination of the rate constants and characterization of the transition state.
The dye - labeled and surface - immobilized ribozymes used were shown to be functionally indistinguishable from the unmodified free ribozyme in solution.
In some prokaryotes as well as in the organelles of some eukaryotes, splicing can be self - catalyzed by particular ribozymes with the help of magnesium ions, without the intervention of any protein machinery: the group II introns ribozymes are in fact able to self - regulate their own removal from the filament, thus promoting the maturation of messenger RNA.