Nucleic Acid Catalysis: Principles, Strategies and Biological Function. The Chemical Principles of RNA Catalysis / Timothy J Wilson, David M J Lilley -- Biological Roles of Self-Cleaving Ribozymes / Christina E Weinberg -- Naturally Occurring Ribozymes. Chemical Mechanisms of the Nucleolytic Ribozymes / Timothy J Wilson, David M J Lilley -- The glmS Ribozyme and Its Multifunctional Coenzyme Glucosamine-6-phosphate / Juliane Soukup -- The Lariat Capping Ribozyme / Henrik Nielsen, Nicolai Krogh, Benoit Masquida, Steinar Daae Johansen -- Self-Splicing Group II Introns / Isabel Chilln, Marco Marcia -- The Spliceosome: an RNA-Protein Ribozyme Derived From Ancient Mobile Genetic Elements / Erin L Garside, Oliver A Kent, Andrew M MacMillan -- The Ribosome and Protein Synthesis / Paul Huter, Michael Graf, Daniel N Wilson -- The RNase P Ribozyme / Markus Gringer, Isabell Schencking, Roland Karl Hartmann -- Ribozyme Discovery in Bacteria / Adam Roth, Ronald Breaker -- Small Self-Cleaving Ribozymes in the Genomes of Vertebrates / Marcos Pena -- Engineered Ribozymes. Phosphoryl Transfer Ribozymes / Razvan Cojocaru, Peter J Unrau -- RNA Replication and the RNA Polymerase Ribozyme / Falk Wachowius, Philipp Holliger -- Maintenance of Genetic Information in the First Ribocell / m Kun -- Ribozyme-Catalyzed RNA Recombination / Benedict A Smail, Niles Lehman -- Engineering of Hairpin Ribozymes for RNA Processing Reactions / Robert Hieronymus, Jikang Zhu, Bettina Appel, Sabine Moller -- Engineering of the Neurospora Varkud Satellite Ribozyme for Cleavage of Nonnatural Stem-Loop Substrates / Pierre Dagenais, Julie Lacroix-Labont©♭, Nicolas Girard, Pascale Legault -- Chemical Modifications in Natural and Engineered Ribozymes / Stephanie Kath-Schorr -- Ribozymes for Regulation of Gene Expression / Julia Stifel, Jorg S Hartig -- Development of Flexizyme Aminoacylation Ribozymes and Their Applications / Takayuki Katoh, Yuki Goto, Toby Passioura, Hiroaki Suga -- In Vitro Selected (Deoxy)ribozymes that Catalyze Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation / Michael Famulok -- Nucleic Acid-Catalyzed RNA Ligation and Labeling / Mohammad Ghaem Maghami, Claudia H©œbartner -- DNAzymes. The Chemical Repertoire of DNA Enzymes / Marcel Hollenstein -- Light-Utilizing DNA zymes / Adam Barlev, Dipankar Sen -- Diverse Applications of DNAzymes in Computing and Nanotechnology / Matthew R Lakin, Darko Stefanovic, Milan N Stojanovic -- Ribozymes/DNAzymes in Diagnostics and Therapy. Optimization of Antiviral Ribozymes / Alfredo Berzal-Herranz, Cristina Romero-Lopez -- DNA zymes as Biosensors / Lingzi Ma, Juewen Liu -- Compartmentalization-Based Technologies for In Vitro Selection and Evolution of Ribozymes and Light-Up RNA Aptamers /Farah Bouhedda, Michael Ryckelynck -- Tools and Methods to Study Ribozymes. Elucidation of Ribozyme Mechanisms at the Example of the Pistol Ribozyme / Christoph Falschlunger, Josef Leiter, Ronald Micura -- Strategies for Crystallization of Natural Ribozymes / Benoit Masquida, Diana Sibrikova, Maria Costa -- NMR Spectroscopic Investigation of Ribozymes / Bozana Knezic, Oliver Binas, Albrecht Eduard Volklein, Harald Schwalbe -- Studying Ribozymes with Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Olav Schiemann -- Computational Modeling Methods for 3D Structure Prediction of Ribozymes / Pritha Ghosh, Chandran Nithin, Astha Joshi, Filip Stefaniak, Tomasz K Wirecki, Janusz M Bujnicki.