Enzymes are proteins that can change shape and therefore become active or inactive. An activator molecule (green pentagon) can bind to an enzyme (light green puzzle shape) and change its overall ...

The researchers explained this surprising finding by the ability of the inactive GOx enzyme to bind glucose without converting it. Binding alone was sufficient to modulate the fluorescence signal.

How does your body speed up these important reactions? The answer is enzymes. Enzymes in our bodies are catalysts that speed up reactions by helping to lower the activation energy needed to start a ...

Gene scissors, molecular scalpel – these descriptive terms are intended to convey what the new method of gene editing with rather unwieldy name of CRISPR-Cas9 can do. As they suggest, the system, ...

This causes the formation of more enzyme-substrate complexes, leading to an increase in enzyme activity. This means the active site loses its important shape and can no longer form enzyme ...

State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism, Joint International Research Laboratory of Metabolic & Developmental Sciences, School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ...

Soft Condensed Matter and Biophysics, Department of Physics and Debye Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands ...

"One of the major challenges of solving this problem has been that the enzymes are difficult to work with. They are generally insoluble or inactive when you attempt to purify them," Barrett said.

A research team led by the University of California, Irvine has engineered an efficient new enzyme that can produce a synthetic genetic material called threose nucleic acid. The ability to ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control, nearly 20% of children and teens are considered obese. Research shows it can ...

Players' names which are italicized indicate they are listed as questionable entering today's games or did not practice on Friday.