Department of Medical Biotechnology and Integrative Physiology, Institute of Biotechnology, Saveetha School of Engineering, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Thandalam, Chennai ...

While protein design is experiencing a period of rapid development and advancement, there’s one particularly challenging class of proteins that’s giving researchers a hard time: enzymes. Now ...

Enzyme designers in the David Baker lab at the University of Washington in Seattle, from left: Sam Pellock, Anna Lauko, Kiera Sumida, David Baker, Donghyo Kim, Indrek Kalvet and Seth Woodbury. (UW ...

Plants can fully catabolize purine nucleotides. A firmly established central intermediate is the purine base xanthine. In the current widely accepted model of plant purine nucleotide catabolism, ...

Bruce Hammock's soluble epoxide hydrolase and inhibitor work dates back more than 50 years ago. Here is he circa 1980 when he joined the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. It's good to ...

This valuable study explores a new strategy of lysin-derived antimicrobial peptide-primed screening to find peptidoglycan hydrolases from bacterial proteomes. Using this strategy, the authors ...

Researchers developed a therapeutic food that promotes beneficial gut microbes. Study: A human gut Faecalibacterium prausnitzii fatty acid amide hydrolase. Image Credit: Tatiana Shepeleva/Shutterstock ...

Given the promising prospect of aggregation-induced emission luminogens (AIEgens) in fluorescence assays, it is interesting and significant to endow AIEgens with molecular recognition capability (such ...

Not revised: This Reviewed Preprint includes the authors’ original preprint (without revision), an eLife assessment, and public reviews. - ABHD6 does not affect the gating kinetics of GluA1 and ...

Respiratory infections can be severe, even deadly, in some individuals, but not in others. Scientists have gained new understanding of why this is the case by uncovering an early molecular driver that ...