The scope of enzymology has expanded rapidly over the last century, from an early focus on the chemical and catalytic mechanisms of individual enzymes to more recent efforts to understand enzyme ...

Scientists develop a new method for improving the functional characteristics of enzymes. The method has potential for wide application in the chemical, medicinal and food industries. An international ...

The proteins in a eukaryotic cell are subject to a huge variety of post-translational modifications, which greatly extend the functional diversity and dynamics of the proteome. Proteins can be ...

To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants process ...

L-myo-inositol 1-phosphate synthase (EC 5.5.1.4) from cyanobacterial (Spirulina platensis), algal (Euglena gracilis), and higher plant (Oryza sativa, Vigna radiata) sources was purified to ...

A chemist from Columbia University will be named the Welch Award winner today for studying how nature works on the molecular level and mimicking this behavior in the chemistry lab. Ronald Breslow, 72, ...

Mek & Tosj on Monday released a new version (2.0) of EnzymeX, a Mac OS X-only program designed to assist molecular biologists in their work with restriction enzymes. The new version touts over 50 new ...