Although general understanding of RNA tertiary structure is rapidly increasing, knowledge about group II intron architecture has grown slowly. This is unfortunate because group II introns are uniquely ...

Researchers have shown for the first time that non-coding parts of genes called introns can copy themselves and move around the genome. Nevertheless, these DNA sequences remain mysterious. Scientific ...

Ribozymes derived from the group II intron ai5γ collapse to a compact intermediate, folding to the native state through a slow, direct pathway that is unperturbed by kinetic traps. Molecular collapse ...