User:Scmohr/ProtCode Enzyme

Enzymes are biological catalysts; that is, they are biomolecules that accelerate chemical reactions. Most enzymes are proteins -- polymers of amino acid residues -- but a very important small set of enzymes are actually RNA molecules. These RNA enzymes are called ribozymes. Although the Registry at present contains no ribozymes, that's likely to change since ribozymes have the important feature that they can be formed directly from DNA merely by transcription. and do not require translation into protein before they can exert their catalytic effects. That feature will surely soon be exploited by synthetic biologists.