A research team believes it has solved a long-standing controversy in the field of bioinorganic chemistry about the identity and location of metal atoms in a key methane-oxidizing metalloenzyme ...

Last month, Roger Kornberg of Stanford University won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his efforts to unravel the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription, in which enzymes give “voice” to DNA by ...

Conflicting biological goals often meet in the specification of protein sequences for structure and function. Overall, strong energetic conflicts are minimized in folded native states according to the ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 111, No. 52 (December 30, 2014), pp. 18454-18459 (6 pages) Enzymes use protein architectures to create highly ...

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

Bacteria constantly evolve new ways to evade antibacterial drugs. One emerging resistance mechanism involves an enzyme called New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 (NDM-1). NDM-1 can hydrolyze most ...