A ribozyme selected from variants of U6 snRNA promotes 2',5'-branch formation.

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Published in RNA on January 01, 2001

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T Tuschl1, P A Sharp, D P Bartel

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1: Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139, USA.

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