A Mechanistic Comparison of the Varkud Satellite and Hairpin Ribozymes - Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science - page 114

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank our coworkers and collaborators for many discussions on ribozyme mechanism,
especially Stephanie Kath-Schorr, Shinya Harusawa, and Joe Piccirilli, and Cancer
Research UK for financial support.

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