Mechanism identified behind enzyme involved in liver and other human cancers Date: December 7, 2017 Source: Uppsala University Summary: To understand what has gone wrong when cancer occurs and to ...

Enzyme mechanisms of catalysis play many important roles in the functioning of a healthy body. An enzyme may exist as a multi-subunit complex or it may be associated with a cofactor such as ...

Regulatory Mechanism Of Key Enzyme Revealed Date: September 25, 2007 Source: University of California, San Diego Summary: Research has shed new light on the structure and function of one of the ...

The Nocturnin enzyme modifies two critical metabolic molecules, NADP+ and NADPH, by removing a phosphate group from each to produce NAD+ and NADH, respectively. NAD+ and NADH are essential to the ...

International team led by University of Leicester unveil a hidden step in enzyme mechanism.

This type of approach provides "a fairly systematic strategy for placing enzymes on metabolic pathways in cells and discovering the roles of those pathways in human disease," Cravatt says.

Scientists studying a COVID-19 coronavirus enzyme at temperatures ranging from frosty to human-body warm discovered subtle structural shifts that offer clues about how the enzyme works. The ...

Most drugs operate via the membranes that surround the body's cells. A study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has now mapped the structure and mechanism of MGST2, a membrane ...

A Key Enzyme A new study has been able to extend the lifespan of worms and flies by inhibiting RNA polymerase III (Pol III). Since the enzyme is common to all animal species, including humans ...

University of Delaware Assistant Professor Jeff Mugridge is studying eraser enzymes that can remove important chemical groups from mRNA, the molecules in our bodies that carry instructions and code to ...