News

Study analyzes 400 million years of enzyme evolution
Enzymes catalyze chemical reactions in organisms—without which life would not be possible. Leveraging AlphaFold2 artificial ...
Newly discovered enzyme could play crucial role in bacterial breakdown of plastics
Leiden researchers have discovered an enzyme that helps bacteria feed on everyday plastics. This common enzyme could play a ...
Science Daily1d
MIT scientists just supercharged the enzyme that powers all plant life
Scientists at MIT have turbocharged one of nature’s most sluggish but essential enzymes—rubisco—by applying a cutting-edge ...
Key mechanisms of enzyme involved in rare metabolic disease identified
An international research team has published a study in the journal The FEBS Journal that significantly advances the ...
C&EN4d
Inverting the Enantioselectivity of a Carbonyl Reductase via Substrate−Enzyme Docking-Guided Point Mutation | Organic Letters - ACS Publications
Substrate-enzyme docking-guided point mutation of a carbonyl reductase from Sporobolomyces salmonicolor led to mutant enzymes, which reversed the enantiopreference and enhanced the enantioselectivity ...
C&EN4d
Substrate Modification during Chemical Vapor Deposition of hBN on Sapphire
A comparison of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) layers grown by chemical vapor deposition on C -plane (0001) versus A -plane (112̅0) sapphire (α-Al 2 O 3) substrate is reported. The high deposition ...