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Self-splicing and enzymatic activity of an intervening sequence RNA fromTetrahymena

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“Nobel Lecture given on December 8, 1989, by Professor Thomas R. Cech and published inLes 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 fromTetrahymena . Biosci Rep 10, 239–261 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01117241

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