THE HAMMERHEAD RIBOZYME Polymers for Molecular Biology

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The HammerHead Ribozyme Structure for Molecular Biology The RNA HammerHead Complex.
Model Of A Hypothesized Hammerhead Ribozyme Conformational Change. The two subunits of the hammer head symmetric dimer are shown using the Backbone display. The RNA longer sise element is grey; the self-cleavage region is purple; and the short RNA module is red backbone color.

Close-up view of region-RNA interactions in one half-site.
Nucleotides to the RNA bases as follows:
A U/T G C

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DNA backbone.(Zoom-in to see the individual contacts.)
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Coordinates from 1D66.pdb.