... to the GBS of the ribozyme for the exon-ligation step of TES. In the substrate-cleavagestep, however, the 3¢ terminal guanosine (G336) of the ribozyme (Fig. 1) is binding to that same GBS.Therefore, ... for the second step of TES [48], similar to (if not the same as) the role of the xG in the second step of self-splicing [48–56].This suggests that the guanosine to be excised islikely binding ... not the limitingstep (binding is slower), but in terms of decreasing the amount of substrate that dissociates from the ribozymebefore reactivity, effectively increasing the yield of the reaction.Experimental...