Plants produce an astonishing variety of chemical substances. Most of these metabolites are involved in chemical ...

A successful collaboration involving a trio of research institutions has yielded a roadmap toward an economically viable process for using enzymes to recycle plastics.

Free-radical polymers of 4-vinylimidazole and copolymers with 1-dodecyl-4-vinylimidazole were used as enzyme mimics to transaminate pyruvic acid to alanine, phenylpyruvic acid to phenylalanine, and ...

For the past 30 years, scientists have been on a mission to unlock the secrets of how plants defend themselves. That journey ...

Biphenyl hydrolase-like protein (BPHL, NCBI accession number NP_004323) is a novel human serine hydrolase recently identified as a human valacyclovirase, catalyzing the hydrolytic activation of the ...