Mitochondrial enzyme's atomic-level structure reveals how it processes RNA

Researchers at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet have captured the first detailed molecular ...
Phys.org

Bioengineers create new substrate to study wood-decomposing enzyme

Researchers want to transform the natural and abundant resource wood into useful materials, and central to that is a molecular machine found in fungi that decomposes the complex raw material into its ...
C&EN

A trio of AI methods tackles enzyme design

RFdiffusion2, RFdiffusion3, and Riff-Diff each solve different structural problems in computational enzyme design ...
JSTOR Daily

Pseudouridine synthase 7 is an opportunistic enzyme that binds and modifies substrates with diverse sequences and structures

Meredith K. Purchal, Daniel E. Eyler, Mehmet Tardu, Monika K. Franco, Megan M. Korn, Taslima Khan, Ryan McNassor, Rachel Giles, Katherine Lev, Hari Sharma, Jeremy ...
The Scientist

Luciferase: A Powerful Bioluminescent Research Tool

Although bioluminescence has been observed for many centuries, its application in biomedicine is relatively recent. Scientists traced back the first reference of bioluminescence to the Greek ...
Science Daily

Two plant species invent the same chemically complex and medically interesting substance

The biosynthesis of the great variety of natural plant products has not yet been elucidated for many medically interesting substances. In a new study, an international team of researchers was able to ...