Although you may never have heard of the cytochrome P450 superfamily of enzymes, these proteins play diverse and critical roles in humans through the metabolic processing of drugs, pesticides, fatty ...

Using a series of more than 1,000 X-ray snapshots of the shapeshifting of enzymes in action, researchers at Stanford University have illuminated one of the great mysteries of life—how enzymes are able ...

Single-molecule experiments reveal that one SauUSI restriction enzyme dimer from Staphylococcus aureus acts as an ATP-driven ...

A team has used neutron crystallography to image all of the atoms in a radical intermediate of a copper amine oxidase enzyme. They disclosed previously unknown details, such as precise conformational ...

Bacteriophages, or viruses that infect bacteria, have a fiendishly simple purpose in life: attach to a bacterial cell, inject ...

New research in Nature Metabolism reveals that the metabolic enzyme NNMT drives hyperandrogenism in polyendocrine metabolic ...

Many naturally occurring molecules such as menthol or limonene exist in two mirror-image forms, known as enantiomers, that ...

Making sense of metabolism, the networks of chemical reactions that keep life alive, can be a challenge because it is hard to study a single molecule in isolation. But if researchers can find enzymes ...

Biochemistry is the study of the structure and function of biological molecules such as proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates and lipids. Biochemistry is also used to describe techniques suited to ...

IBM researchers have added enzymatic reactions to their artificial intelligence–powered synthesis planning software RXN. The algorithm can work backward to propose series of reactions that use enzymes ...

Man prides himself upon his growing mastery over nature, but in the ultimate biochemical analysis nature remains the master of man. With their most sophisticated laboratory glassware and corrosive ...