The molecular structure of an enzyme from a marine bacterium with potential industrial uses has been determined by RIKEN ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chemists have long dreamed of mimicking nature’s precision, and now, thanks to a repurposed enzyme, they’ve taken a leap closer.

Enzymes are nature's tiny powerhouses, helping with everything from digesting food to making it quicker and safer to produce ...

Nicotine, a potent insecticidal alkaloid unique to the nightshade family, has been employed in agriculture as a pesticide ...

CHAPEL HILL – All biological reactions within human cells depend on enzymes. Their power as catalysts enables biological reactions to occur usually in milliseconds. But how slowly would these ...

For the first time, researchers have succeeded in predicting how to change the optimum temperature of an enzyme using large computer calculations. A cold-adapted enzyme from an Antarctic bacterium was ...

The enzyme accelerates this reaction by 10 17 times, simply by positioning negative and positive charges in the active centre. Since the substrate contains a negatively charged group that is split off ...

This mechanism is completely different from the way collagen is broken down by collagen-digesting enzymes in humans and ...

They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. But bathing an enzyme in blue-green light has enabled researchers to completely change its catalytic function, so that it carries out a ring-forming ...

A metabolic enzyme found in the support cells surrounding tumors may hold the key to predicting which cancer patients will ...