Product Description: The past several years have seen a fundamental change in our perception of RNA. RNA was once regarded as a passive mediator of genetic information in mRNA and tRNA or as a mere scaffold for proteins in the ribosome. But the discovery of catalytic RNA, the development of SELEX, and dramatic improvements in RNA structure analysis have rather demonstrated that RNA is a highly versatile and dynamic molecule...read more

This book focuses on the RNA components of the ribosome and on group I introns emphasizing intrinsic properties of large RNAs common to both systems, splicing and translation. In particular, it demonstrates the fascinating versatility of genetic systems. (view table of contents)