AI used to design a multi-step enzyme that can digest some plastics Enzyme mechanisms can be complex, and getting them to work is tricky. John Timmer – Feb 14, 2025 11:47 am ...

The enzyme, which has been named Huc, is used by the bacterium Mycobacterium smegmatis to draw energy from atmospheric hydrogen, enabling it to survive in extreme, nutrient-poor environments.

Bioengineered enzyme creates natural vanillin from plants in one step Researchers develop an enzyme which can convert ferulic acid from plant waste into vanillin -- the classic vanilla flavored ...

Crafting enzymes is more difficult than designing other proteins because it requires not just predicting the structure of a single protein conformation, but of changes in conformations as enzymes ...

Each step has an enzyme that catalyzes it, because otherwise those reactions wouldn’t go fast enough for life to exist. … An enzyme is a protein that is a catalyst. They’re the best catalysts in the ...

Water molecules play a number of critical roles in enzyme catalysis, including mass transfer of substrates and products, nucleophilicity and proton transfer at the active site, and solvent shell ...

Figuring out how a protein or enzyme works, and understanding how genetic mutations affect these molecules that are fundamental to life, can often take years. Researchers must alter hundreds of ...