Robert Hieronymus, Simon Peter Godehard, Darko Balke and Sabine Müller
Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 4365-4368
DOI:
10.1039/C6CC00383D,
Communication
We have engineered a hairpin ribozyme that in a two-step reaction supports RNA recombination by catalysing the cleavage of two non-functional RNA precursors (first step) followed by the recombination of two of the cleavage fragments into a functional RNA (second step). The recombination product (yield: 76%) is a fully functional hammerhead ribozyme.