A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has offered insight into how Staphylococcus ...

Current demand for plastics and chemical raw materials is met through large-scale production of ethylene from fossil fuels. This makes it necessary to search for new, renewable processes. Using ...

Enzymes are crucial in numerous biological processes, with the Enzyme Commission (EC) number being a commonly used method for defining enzyme function. However, current EC number prediction ...

Enzymes are regarded as the key to sustainable chemistry. Despite major advances in protein design, creating artificial ...

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have determined the three-dimensional structure of an RNA enzyme, or “ribozyme,” that carries out a fundamental reaction required to make new ...

Researchers have made a major breakthrough earlier this year in the field of evolutionary conservation of molecular dynamics in enzymes. Their work points to potential applications in health, ...

The crucial role of enzyme function annotation in our understanding of the intricate mechanisms driving biological processes governed by enzymes is widely recognized. The Enzyme Commission (EC) number ...

UPTON, NY—Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have produced the first atomic-level structure of an enzyme that selectively cuts carbon-hydrogen bonds—the first ...

Cancer cells have an insatiable appetite for energy as they multiply more rapidly than normal cells. Greedy cancer cells hijack various cellular functions to find and exploit energy and other ...

After nearly four decades of research, Mayo Clinic scientists have revealed the molecular structures of protein kinase C beta ...

A chance discovery at Nagoya University in Japan has shown that a well-known brain enzyme has a hidden ability: It builds a ...