A research team has investigated biliverdin reductase, the enzyme producing bilirubin -- a substance linked with jaundice -- from biliverdin (BV). Two BV molecules were found at the enzyme reaction ...

We therefore long suspected that the crucial cyclization reaction could occur spontaneously, without the help of another enzyme," says Sarah O'Connor, explaining the starting point of the research.

Researchers have captured a bacterial enzyme in the act of encircling collagen and pulling a single strand through its ...

A new study has captured atomic-resolution snapshots of a brown recluse spider toxin latched onto cell-membrane lipids, ...

Although many organisms capture and respond to sunlight, enzymes - proteins that catalyze biochemical reactions - are rarely driven by light. Scientists have identified only three types of natural ...

Scientists show DNA polymerases can build long, patterned DNA without a template, opening new paths for synthetic biology and ...

Proof of Concept is a video series profiling the science and scientists behind some of the environment’s most unexpected research. Pretty much all life on Earth – plants, animals, humans – in large ...

They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. But bathing an enzyme in blue-green light has enabled researchers to completely change its catalytic function, so that it carries out a ring-forming ...

Enzymes help with specific functions that are vital to the operation and overall health of the human body. They help speed up chemical reactions and are essential for respiration, digestion, muscle ...

A Rutgers Cancer Institute study in Cell Reports Medicine promises help with both those problems. It identifies a protein ...