Natural and unnatural ribozymes: back to the primordial RNA world.

We review natural and in vitro selected ribozymes, for which combined studies could provide us with both insight into the functions performed by ancient RNA molecules in a primitive RNA world and a hypothesis about evolutionary steps that led to the contemporary world.

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