Standardized descriptors of function can be given at the biochemical level (as in the Enzyme Commission (E.C.) classification), the process or pathway level (as in the KEGG and BioCyc databases ...

Enzymes are crucial to life. They are nature's little catalysts. In the gut, they help us digest food. They can enhance ...

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is one of the most widely used plastics, commonly found in bottles, fibers, and many other ...

A new ML-guided platform can design thousands of new enzymes, predict how they will behave in the real world, and test their ...

Polyethylene terephthalate is one of the few plastics that can be effectively broken down into its base materials by ...

ALT and AST are part of a comprehensive panel of tests known as a liver function test (LFT). An LFT may be ordered: The test measures ALT and AST, enzymes produced by the liver. These enzymes are ...

Researchers from the Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine identified an enzyme, alpha-kinase 2 (ALPK2) that is ...

Catalase is a ubiquitous enzyme found in nearly all living organisms, from bacteria to humans. Its primary function is to decompose hydrogen peroxide, a byproduct of metabolic reactions, into water ...

Selection methods focus on evolving “winning” enzymes for a single transformation, limiting the collection of sequence-function relationships, both positive and negative, for further engineering of ...