All enzymes articles
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Enzymes have evolved into nature’s reaction facilitators over millions of years and their unique catalytic abilities drive science by connecting essential life elements
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Research
Template molecules round-up extra-large cyclodextrins from enzymatic synthesis
Scientists rethink how they use enzymes in chemical synthesis by exerting thermodynamic, rather than kinetic, control
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News
PCR inventor Kary Mullis dies aged 74
Mullis shared the 1993 chemistry Nobel prize with Michael Smith
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Research
Resurrected enzyme aces cellulose catalysis
Protein that survived extreme conditions on early Earth could be a boon for biofuel industry
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Research
Enzyme evolved to selectively functionalise carbon–hydrogen bonds
Lactam libraries created by engineered bacterial enzyme offer new way to fight antibiotic resistance
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Research
Enzyme redesign magnifies rare sugar synthesis
Tweaks could allow scientists to explore the commercial potential of an unusual disaccharide found in Japanese sake
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Research
Synthetic enzyme wipes out tough bacterial biofilms
After success in mice strategy could be an alternative to antibiotics to treat wounds
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Cracking enzyme structure offers new way to treat rare heart diseases
Solution was found by combining protein with its chaperone
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Building block approach creates new metalloproteins
Protein modules can be connected by disulfide linkages while varying the metal ions
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Enzyme evolved that can perform reactions new to nature
New possibilities for organic synthesis with enzymatic C–H functionalisation
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Weird mechanism behind catnip compound’s biosynthesis uncovered
Nepetalactone – the compound cats go crazy for – is made by a two-step procedure that is unlike any other in terpenoid biosynthesis
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Enzyme ancestors resurrected to boost thermal stability
Scientists constructing enzyme library make serendipitous discovery
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Opinion
The potential of promiscuity
Nobel recognition for a concept whose benefit to humankind is far from being truly realised
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From metal–organic frameworks to enzymes, Johnson Matthey staff are working to make new discoveries
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News
What is directed evolution and why did it win the chemistry Nobel prize?
If you’ve got questions about yesterday’s chemistry Nobel prize then we’ve got answers
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Research
Artificial iron–sulfur catalyst is highly functional
Sulfite reductase mimic represents major advancement in engineering synthetic enzymes
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Nerve agents destroyed by self-powering enzyme nanobot
Pumping action of tethered organophosphorus acid anhydrase as it breaks up sarin and Soman is used to release antidote
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Bubbly protocells bob up and down
Enzymes inflate or consume oxygen bubbles making clay capsules float and sink reversibly
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Prebiotically plausible version of pH gradient generating catalyst
Scientists create simple metal ion system could have facilitated early metabolic processes, like ATP synthesis
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Artificial intelligence seeks out new anticancer drugs
A combination of machine learning methods yields promising results for drug discovery
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