Enzymes are biological catalysts that lower the activation energy of chemical reactions, allowing them to proceed at a faster rate. This illustration depicts the process of enzyme catalysis. The ...

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Nonetheless, many potential applications await the development of enzymes that can catalyze difficult reactions involving chemical transformations not encountered in the biological world.

Figure 1: Active site structures of representative nonheme iron enzymes with a 2-His-1-carboxylate facial triad and the reactions they catalyze. A comparison of the primary sequence information of ...

Enzymes in metabolic pathways are superb catalysts, accelerating chemical reactions by up to 16 orders of magnitude. Many enzymes also catalyze adventitious secondary reactions, simply because active ...

Conceptual illustration of terrestrial hot springs on early Earth (Illustration by Alex Bosoy, Design & Illustration, LLC) ...

The diagram below shows how an enzyme catalyses the breakdown of one substrate into two products.

Iron sulfides in hot springs around volcanic vents on land could have provided carbon in the form the earliest life needed to ...

However, it is safe to say that no enzyme is perfect in the sense of catalyzing only a single reaction with a single substrate. For enzymes such as P450s and glutathione S-transferases that are ...

Biocatalysis is a process that uses enzymes as natural catalysts to carry out chemical reactions. Scientists at The University of Manchester and AstraZeneca have developed a new biocatalytic ...