Current demand for plastics and chemical raw materials is met through large-scale production of ethylene from fossil fuels.

Researchers devised a reversibly lockable DNA device for enclosing an enzyme and controlling its access to substrates. Turning on and off the activity of a single enzyme on demand is a much desired ...

Comparing the amino acid sequence of the cyclase with sequences from thousands of plant species in public databases revealed that the enzyme occurs precisely in plant species that form iridoids. "We ...

Steviol glycosides, natural sweeteners extracted from Stevia rebaudiana, are widely used as sucrose substitutes due to their high sweetness and low caloric value. Among them, Rebaudioside M (Reb M) is ...

A research team led by a biochemist at the University of California, Riverside has solved the crystal structure for an enzyme that plays a key role in DNA methylation, the process by which methyl ...