Kanazawa University, have captured real-time images showing how a key brain enzyme organizes itself to help memory formation. Their study, published in Nature Communications, reveals that the enzyme ...

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 ...

Scientists studying a COVID-19 coronavirus enzyme at temperatures ranging from frosty to human-body warm discovered subtle structural shifts that offer clues about how the enzyme works. The findings ...

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 ...

Nitrate - known, for example, as plant fertilizer - is a nutrient for many biological processes such as plant growth. Nitrate salts occur on earth in large quantities (approximately 600 billion tons).

Researchers at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet have captured the first detailed molecular snapshots of human polynucleotide phosphorylase (hPNPase) in action, ...

Thousands of different chemical reactions must happen inside every cell, every second in order for them to function. If these cellular reactions happen too slowly the cell may die. If the cell is part ...

Retroviral proteases have a critical role in the development of an Aids virus An online game has helped determine the structure of an enzyme that could pave the way for anti-Aids drugs. The game, ...