The peptidases can break bonds between specific D- and L-amino acids, filling a gap in the toolbox for natural products ...

A research group at Uppsala University has recreated several billion-year-old enzymes and reprogrammed them to speed up completely different chemical reactions than their modern variants can handle.

A team of biochemists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has developed a faster way to identify molecules in the ...

Biocatalysis, protein engineering, and flow chemistry are key enabling technologies that can yield drastically shorter and greener chemical processes. We sought to leverage these technologies to ...

Practically all biochemical processes involve enzymes that accelerate chemical reactions. A research team has now for the first time deciphered the molecular mechanism of the enzyme AsqJ. Their ...

Amide bonds are common in drugs because they are chemically stable, form readily and are biocompatible. They also help ...

Frances Arnold, from Caltech in Pasadena, was first to use a method mimicking natural selection in order to develop enzymes that would perform specific tasks. The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has ...

A research team has resurrected several billion-year-old enzymes and reprogrammed them to catalyze completely different chemical reactions than their modern versions can manage. The method can be used ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have discovered a new function in a plant enzyme that could have implications for the design of new chemical catalysts. The ...

Enzymes are catalysts that accelerate chemical reactions in living systems. They reduce the energy required for chemical reactions to occur and act like a team of experts in construction projects, ...

We present EC-BLAST (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/thornton-srv/software/rbl/), an algorithm and Web tool for quantitative similarity searches between enzyme reactions at ...