Each enzyme has an optimal temperature range where its functionality is at its peak. For humans, this is around normal body temperature (37 °C). Deviating from this range causes enzyme activity ...

How efficient! Enzyme activity measures how fast an enzyme can change a substrate into a product. Changes in temperature or acidity can make enzyme reactions go faster or slower. Enzymes work best ...

The evolution of low-temperature adapted enzymes Scientists uncover how enzymes evolved to function at low temperatures by reconstructing prehistoric proteins from extinct bacteria Date: March 25 ...

As with many chemical reactions, the rate of an enzyme-catalysed reaction increases as the temperature increases. However, at high temperatures the rate decreases again because the enzyme becomes ...

Enzymes that originally evolved in high-temperature environments later adapted to cooler conditions as Earth underwent global cooling. Now, researchers from Waseda University and RIKEN in Japan ...

Local climate can be used to predict the venom characteristics of a deadly snake that is widespread in India, helping ...