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What is ribozyme?

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There are certain RNA molecules that have catalytic function, these are called ribozymes or RNA enzymes. The first ribozyme was discovered by Cech et. al., (1981). It is self-splicing group 1 intron. It removes introns from newly synthesized RNA.
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