RNA world: Catalysis abets binding, but not vice versa
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The recent selection of a complex ribozyme capable of general polymerization on a template in trans has revealed how catalysts may have arisen from one another in the RNA world.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001