Life has evolved over billions of years, adapting to the changing environment. Similarly, enzymes—proteins that speed up ...

You may have heard of the fantastic-sounding "dark side of the genome." This poorly studied fraction of DNA, known as ...

Enzymes initially developed in high-temperature environments and subsequently adapted to cooler conditions as the Earth underwent a cooling phase.

The transformation of healthy cells into invasive colorectal tumors is an extraordinarily complex process involving numerous ...

Researchers say findings suggest it may be possible to stop cancer growth using approaches such as restraining TE activity in ...

Enzymes originally evolved in high-temperature environments and later adapted to lower temperatures as Earth cooled. Scientists discovered that a key shift in enzyme function occurred over ...

Enzyme activation typically happens when small molecules bind outside the active site, to increase the enzyme’s activity. What’s special about the enzyme you investigated, 8-oxoguanine DNA ...

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 ...

Using computational tools and virtual screening, researchers at the Center for Redox Processes in Biomedicine (Redoxoma) have ...

This is shown in the graph below. In the graph above, as the pH increases so does the rate of enzyme activity. An optimum activity is reached at the enzyme’s optimum pH, pH 8 in this example.

Scientists have long been curious about a mysterious part of our DNA called heterochromatin, often called the “dark side of ...

Meet O-GlcNAc transferase (OGT), an enzyme at the heart of many essential ... are normally associated with transcriptional silencing and activation, respectively. Researchers have shown that ...