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Nature Chemical Biology 3, 753 - 754 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nchembio1207-753

Understanding DNA-based catalysis one molecule at a time

Kenny Schlosser1 & Yingfu Li1

  1. Kenny Schlosser and Yingfu Li are in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3Z5, Canada. e-mail: liying@mcmaster.ca


DNA is the newest member of the enzyme club. The first glimpse of DNAzyme conformational changes at the single-molecule level reveals that enzymes made of DNA can use the same modi operandi as protein and RNA catalysts.

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