Figure 1: An artist’s impression of an enzyme and its substrate. Three RIKEN researchers have found a simple expression that governs all kinds of enzymes. © HYBRID ...

Enzyme kinetics involves the measurement of the rate at which chemical reactions that are catalyzed by enzymes occur. Knowledge about the kinetics of an enzyme can reveal useful information about its ...

What are the underlying forces and mechanisms that enable enzymes to accelerate reactions? "Quite recently, we have found that there are enzymes that enhance reaction rates by factors as large as 10 ...

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, ...

Bionic enzymes got a needed boost in speed thanks to new research. By pairing a noble metal with a natural enzyme, scientists created a hybrid capable of churning out molecules at a rate comparable to ...

Using a series of more than 1,000 X-ray snapshots of the shapeshifting of enzymes in action, researchers at Stanford University have illuminated one of the great mysteries of life – how enzymes are ...

Enzymes are typically studied in bulk solution, but confined environments such as droplets made by electrospray ionization may more closely mimic the natural environment inside cells. Electrospray ...

CHAPEL HILL -- All biological reactions within human cells depend on enzymes. Their power as catalysts enables biological reactions to occur usually in milliseconds. But how slowly would these ...

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

A single type of chemical structure that shows up again and again in modern medicine is the amide bond that links a carbonyl ...