Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and India's National Center for Biological Sciences have found that yeast clusters, when grown beyond a certain size, spontaneously generate fluid ...

Some microbes happily thrive in unforgiving environments. An extremophile hunt is underway to leverage their resilience ...

In the present study, a scanning tunneling microscope (STM), modified to include active lateral position feedback control, is employed to image single and few layer graphene films placed on a ...

Artistic rendering of cellulose regenerating on a plant protoplast cell surface with zoomed out view. Cellulose is synthesized by plasma membrane-bound enzyme complexes (green) and assembles into ...

The existence of the phenomenon of enhanced enzyme diffusion (EED) has been a topic of debate in recent literature. One proposed mechanism to explain the origin of EED is oligomeric enzyme ...

Recognition of P1 by a specific active site pocket, generically termed subsite S1, often provides substrate sequence specificity to the enzyme. Substrate residues further to the N-terminus (termed P2, ...

CASL approach. (A) Illustration to explain the structural match between the enzyme and substrate to catalyze the reaction.The activation of a substrate amine by the carbonyl oxygen of the backbone ...

IISc’s Materials Research Centre engineers enzyme mimetic to break down waste under sunlight The MRC research team crafted a platinum-based nanozyme, NanoPtA, that mimics the function of natural ...

It’s a measure of an enzyme’s catalytic ability when fully saturated with substrates. The higher the Vmax, the more efficient the enzyme is at converting substrate into product. Steps to Calculate Km ...

Part of the minichromosome maintenance protein (MCM) family, MCM8/9 is directly linked to ovarian insufficiency, infertility and cancers including ovarian, testicular and colon cancers, yet little ...

Michale Trakselis, Ph.D., and his team unravel the structure of MCM8/9 bound to its substrate product, ...

The research – Activity, substrate preference, and structure of HsMCM8/9 helicase – was published in the scientific journal Nucleic Acids Research. With this new information, researchers in the ...