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Self-Splicing and Enzymatic Activity of an Intervening Sequence RNA from Tetrahymena

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“Nobel Lecture given on December 8, 1989, by Professor Thomas R. Cech and published in Les Prix Nobel 1989, printed in Sweden by Norstedts Tryckeri, Stockholm, Sweden, 1990, republished here with the permission of the Nobel Foundation, the copyright holder.”

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Cech, T.R. Self-Splicing and Enzymatic Activity of an Intervening Sequence RNA from Tetrahymena. Biosci Rep 24, 362–385 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10540-005-2738-3

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