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Which enzyme is not proteinaceous in nature?


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Enzyme:

  1. An enzyme is a biological catalyst and is almost always a protein.
  2. It speeds up the rate of a specific chemical reaction in the cell.
  3. Enzymes are mostly made up of proteins.

Non-proteinaceous enzyme:

  1. A minority of enzymes are RNA in nature.
  2. Such catalytic RNA molecules are called as ribozymes.
  3. Ribozymes are found in the ribosome where they join amino acids together to form protein chains.
  4. They play an important role in other vital reactions such as mRNA splicing, transfer RNA biosynthesis, and viral replication.

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