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RNA is all you need

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Crystallographic, biochemical and computational studies of the hairpin ribozyme define its structure and reveal likely components of an enzyme active site that is comprised entirely of ribonucleotides.

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Figure 1: Stereo view of the global structure of the hairpin ribozyme in a complex with a noncleavable substrate analog and U1A protein.
Figure 2: Stereo view of the structure at the active site.

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