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| Ribozyme is an [[RNA|RNA]] [[Molecule|molecules]] which possess a [[Catalysts|catalytic]] activity due to the tertiary structure that it forms<ref>Berg J., Tymoczko J., Stryer L. (2007) Biochemistry, 6th edition, New York: WH Freeman.</ref>. One of the examples of the ribozyme is the 23S [[RRNA|rRNA]] which is responsible for catalyzing the linkage of to adjacent [[Amino acid|amino acids]] by a [[Peptide bond|peptide bond]] during the process of [[Translation|translation<ref>Berg J., Tymoczko J., Stryer L. (2007) Biochemistry, 6th edition, New York: WH Freeman.</ref>]]. The ribozymes were first discovered by two American scientist: Thomas Cech and Sidney Altman on 1970s. 20 years later they won a Nobel Prize for "discovery of catalytic properties of RNA"<ref>Nobelprize.org "The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989". Available at: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1989/ (last accessed 5 Dec 2010)</ref>.
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