Enzymes are crucial to life. They are nature's little catalysts. In the gut, they help us digest food. They can enhance ...

an induced fit basis for substrate specificity of enzymes was rationalized from simple physical principles of enzyme kinetics. Of particular note is the proposal that ‘entropic guidance’ contributes ...

A new ML-guided platform can design thousands of new enzymes, predict how they will behave in the real world, and test their ...

Enzymes are biological catalysts that speed up chemical reactions in living organisms. They are essential for life, as they play a crucial role in various biological processes, such as digestion, ...

Despite knowing that the active centres of many metalloprotein enzymes are iron porphyrin ... nanoporous array shows promise for biomimetic catalysis. What if synthetic iron porphyrins could ...

For example, conformational changes in enzymes may be crucial for optimal ... directed towards understanding protein folding and catalysis. The foundation of the text is grounded on solid ...

To achieve methane conversion without that input of energy, the MIT team designed a hybrid catalyst with two components: a zeolite and a naturally occurring enzyme. Zeolites are abundant ...

Extant enzymes are prodigious catalysts, accelerating chemical reactions by as much as 25 orders of magnitude. However, it is safe to say that no enzyme is perfect in the sense of catalyzing only a ...

Areas of expertise Most biochemical reactions depend on enzyme catalysis, and understanding how enzymes 'work' at the molecular level is a fundamental problem. Enzymes are remarkably efficient and ...

How does your body speed up these important reactions? The answer is enzymes. Enzymes in our bodies are catalysts that speed up reactions by helping to lower the activation energy needed to start a ...