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What are ribozymes?

What are ribozymes? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of ribozyme
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Hammerhead ribozymes are small, catalytic RNAs that can be designed to target and cleave substrate RNAs at sequence specific sites.
Naturally occurring ribozymes may be used in chemotherapy, but they are large, expensive, and fragile RNA molecules.
But to do their work, ribozymes need to first get into the cells, and for that they need help.
At that time, everyone thought of proteins as the only kind of enzymes and ribozymes had not yet been found.
They can act as real enzymes and, by analogy to protein enzymes, are called ribozymes.
Gene therapy is also making use of catalytic RNA through the construction of ribozymes.

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