Scientists at Clemson University are making progress in understanding the link between specific enzymes that are naturally generated in the body and their involvement in…
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A new artificial enzyme has shown it can chew through lignin, the tough polymer that helps woody plants hold their shape. Lignin also stores tremendous…
Amphiphilic assembly-based electrode for high-performance hybrid biofuel cells. Credit: Jinhan Cho Amphiphilic assembly generates hybrid biofuel cells with improved power output and operational stability. Enzyme…
Brazilian researchers discovered, characterized, and validated the functions of two novel enzyme families with biotechnological potential. One method of reducing reliance on oil and other…
Timelapse of plastic degradation. A new enzyme variant can break down plastics that typically take centuries to degrade in just a matter of hours to…
The TPADO enzyme. Credit: Rita Clare, Montana State University Scientists who helped to pioneer the use of enzymes to eat plastic have taken an important…
A bacterial enzyme (crystal structure shown here) makes a new type of biodegradable polymer, acholetin, which might someday find use in drug delivery, tissue engineering…
The unicellular amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum can form a multicellular association and form fruiting bodies that release spores. Credit: Falk Hillmann / Leibniz-HKI A research team…
This illustration features a cryo-EM “map” of the photosystem II complex. It is a 3D reconstruction, based on two-dimensional cryo-EM images, with different protein subunits…
Biochemist studies when enzymes in our cells go wrong and misbehave in human disease. University of Delaware researcher awarded NIH grant to study why eraser…
Trimeric structure of an ancient enzyme from Odin archaea, with substrate molecules shown in green. Credit: Magnus Wolf-Watz “The distinction between the past, present, and…
Postdoctoral fellow Yunjun Zhao, the lead author on the paper, and Brookhaven Lab biochemist Chang-Jun Liu with poplar plants in the greenhouse at Brookhaven National…
MIT chemists have determined the structure of the complex that forms when gaseous dinitrogen, or N2, binds to an iron-sulfur cluster, offering clues as to…
For more than 40 years, scientists have hypothesized the existence of enzyme clusters, or “metabolons,” in facilitating various processes within cells. Using a novel imaging…