The immune system must maintain a delicate balance to defend against harmful threats while avoiding excessive inflammation.

Gifu University scientists have uncovered how a brain-specific enzyme reshapes protein-linked sugar chains to facilitate the ...

Nitrogen, upon which all life on Earth depends, may hold the key for explaining how early life on the planet evolved and how it could evolve on other planets.

Discovery could redirect drug development for disease affecting 6.7 million Americans The two AMPKα isoforms can have ...

Abstract: Traditional biological experimental methods to determine enzyme properties are time-consuming and costly, leading to an increasing interest in computational models for enzyme function ...

Enzymes, the unsung heroes of biological systems, are essential for life as we know it. These remarkable molecules, primarily proteins, act as catalysts, speeding up chemical reactions within cells ...

Cancer cells have an insatiable appetite for energy as they multiply more rapidly than normal cells. Greedy cancer cells hijack various cellular functions to find and exploit energy and other ...

Enzymes are essential biological catalysts that play a critical role in numerous biochemical processes. Understanding the structure-function relationship of enzymes is of paramount importance, as it ...

Difructose anhydrides (DFAs), distinctive cyclic disaccharides mainly naturally produced by heating (caramelization), serve as potential candidates of functional sugars that modern humans consume on a ...