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The hairpin ribozyme and a proposed reaction mechanism.
A. Proposed mechanism of cleavage and ligation based on general acid-base catalysis. This depicts the transition state; the arrows show the flow of electrons for cleavage.
B. The sequence of the hairpin ribozyme used here. The ribozyme comprises four strands labelled a through d.
