After their success using cyanide to drive other chemical reactions, Krishnamurthy and his colleagues suspected that cyanide, even without enzymes, might also help turn α-keto acids into amino acids.

Amino acid metabolism is an important process that occurs within the human body to assist in numerous biological reactions. This article will cover the role of glutamate, transamination reactions ...

The key reactions in cell metabolism are catalyzed by enzymes, ... This 3-D arrangement of amino acids optimized to catalyze peptide bond hydrolysis has clearly developed at least twice in ...

Their study published in Life used computer simulations (Fig. 2, lower) to clarify why the amino acid L-alanine was preferred over D-alanine during primordial RNA aminoacylation reactions, without ...

Inside our cells, ribosomes—the tireless "protein factories" of life—have just shown off a new skill they haven't used in billions of years. A research team has become the first in the world to ...

Biochemists shed light on the evolution of our 20- amino acid toolbox. Read more about this topic on BioTechniques.com. BioTechniques is part of Taylor ... they showed that amino acids that arrived ...

Then, this was placed into water containing hydroxy acids, which help amino acid reactions occur. Finally, the mixture was heated to 85° C (185° F) to mimic mild conditions of the era, and ...

Functional amino acids play a critical role in the development of both animals and humans, according to new research. ... antioxidative reactions and oxidation of energy substrates," he said.

Researchers are building out the repertoire of chemical reactions, using light. They report a method using photobiocatalysis to produce non-canonical (not naturally occurring) amino acids that are ...