This study characterizes several novel activities of SARS-CoV-2 helicase nsp13, providing valuable insights into potentially new functions of this essential RNA-processing enzyme in the virus life ...

Enzymes accelerate reactions by helping to lower the activation energy needed to start them. But how enzymes achieve this has been the subject of intense debate. A research team from Texas and China ...

Cutinases are fungal enzymes that naturally degrade plant cuticles and show promise for recycling plastics. However, they ...

Among the various plastic recycling methods being explored, one promising approach is biological plastic recycling, also ...

Enzymes are used extensively to produce complicated natural compounds and reducing the environmental footprint of chemical manufacturing, and hence it is important to know how they function. Enzymes ...

Researchers at the University created an artificial intelligence model named EZSpecificity to test how well certain enzymes and substrates bind to each other. Huimin Zhao and Diwakar Shukla, ...

The Km (Michaelis constant) represents the substrate concentration at which the enzyme works at half its maximum speed. (It can serve as a proxy for enzyme-substrate binding affinity.) A low Km means ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have discovered important new clues in the mystery of how an ancient enzyme can turn atmospheric carbon into biomolecules, a natural process ...

Scientists study enzymes to recycle PET plastics, aiming to reduce waste and create sustainable recycling methods.