A hammerhead ribozyme selects mechanically stable conformations for catalysis against viral RNA by Man Lu, Zhiqiang Cao, Luoan Xiong, Hongying Deng, Kangkang Ma, Ning Liu, Yanding Qin, Shen-Bo Chen, Jun-Hu Chen, Yao Li, Yijin Liu, Zhongbo Yu

“…Among them, hammerhead is the smallest and best characterized ribozyme. However, the structure and biochemical data of ribozymes have been disagreed on, making the understanding of its catalysis mechanism a longstanding issue. …”
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Computed Energetics of Nucleotides in Spatial Ribozyme Structures: An Accurate Identification of Functional Regions from Structure by Ivan Y. Torshin

“…Ribozymes are functionally diverse RNA molecules with intrinsic catalytic activity. …”
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RNase P cleavage of pseudoknot substrates reveals differences in active site architecture that depend on residue N-1 in the 5’ leader by David M. Kosek, J. Luis Leal, Ema Kikovska-Stojanovska, Guanzhong Mao, Shiying Wu, Samuel C. Flores, Leif A. Kirsebom

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Viroids and Retrozymes: Plant Circular RNAs Capable of Autonomous Replication by Alexander A. Lezzhov, Anastasia K. Atabekova, Denis A. Chergintsev, Ekaterina A. Lazareva, Andrey G. Solovyev, Sergey Y. Morozov

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Biomathematical enzyme kinetics model of prebiotic autocatalytic RNA networks: degenerating parasite-specific hyperparasite catalysts confer parasite resistance and herald the birt... by Magnus Pirovino, Christian Iseli, Joseph A Curran, Bernard Conrad

“…Secondly, ribozyme polymerases are capable of sustainable auto-amplification and of surmounting the fatal error threshold. …”
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Proteins with RNA Chaperone Activity: A World of Diverse Proteins with a Common Task—Impediment of RNA Misfolding by Katharina Semrad

“…RNA chaperone activity is studied in vitro and in vivo using oligonucleotide- or ribozyme-based assays. Due to their functional as well as structural diversity, a common chaperoning mechanism or universal motif has not yet been identified. …”
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Synthesis of Specifically Modified Oligonucleotides for Application in Structural and Functional Analysis of RNA by Nico Rublack, Hien Nguyen, Bettina Appel, Danilo Springstubbe, Denise Strohbach, Sabine Müller

“…Beyond synthetic RNAs for antisense, aptamer, ribozyme, and siRNA technologies, oligoribonucleotides carrying site-specific modifications for structure and function studies are needed. …”
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Serum microRNAs as Diagnostic Markers in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Narrative Review by K Lavanya, N Palaniappan, VM Vinodhini, Santhi Silambanan

“…The profiles of microRNAs differ depending on the tissue from which they originate. Due to ribozyme activity, microRNAs are persistent and resistant to hydrolysis. …”
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Gene Therapy for HIV Infections: Intracellular Immunization by Alain Piché

“…These strategies include the use of single-chain antibodies, capsid-targeted viral inactivation, transdominant negative mutants, ribozymes, antisense oligonucleotides and RNA decoys. …”
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The potential of fluorogenicity for single molecule FRET and DyeCycling by Srijayee Ghosh, Sonja Schmid

“…Single Molecule Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (smFRET) is a popular technique to directly observe biomolecular dynamics in real time, offering unique mechanistic insight into proteins, ribozymes, and so forth. However, inevitable photobleaching of the fluorophores puts a stringent limit on the total time a surface-tethered molecule can be monitored, fundamentally limiting the information gain through conventional smFRET measurements. …”
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