Enzymes are the molecular machines that power life; they build and break down molecules, copy DNA, digest food, and drive ...

A large team of researchers led by Wouter Karthaus, head of the Endocrine Therapy Resistance and Molecular Genetics Lab at ...

Scientists have uncovered a new explanation for how swimming bacteria change direction, providing fresh insight into one of ...

Enzyme mechanisms are the chemical transformations, and the steps within them, generated by enzymatic action on substrates. The mechanism of enzyme catalysis is similar in principle to other types of ...

A major goal of structural and functional genomics (or proteomics) is to deduce the structure and function of novel proteins by finding sequence homologies to biochemically well-characterized proteins ...

Cells have a remarkable housekeeping system: proteins that are no longer needed, defective, or potentially harmful are labeled with a molecular "tag" and dismantled in the cellular recycling machinery ...

A new study reveals that roasted coffee contains previously unknown compounds capable of inhibiting a key enzyme linked to blood sugar control. Scientists have identified three compounds that strongly ...

Researchers have identified a brain protein whose absence leads to memory loss and Alzheimer’s-like damage in mice.