In nature, enzymes from microbes that thrive in extremely hot habitats like hydrothermal vents can remain stable even at 100 C. These thermophilic enzymes are useful for the biotech industry ...

Understanding how enzymes from thermophilic organisms evolved to function at lower temperatures could not only provide insights into evolutionary biology but also aid in bioengineering enzymes ...

Understanding how enzymes from thermophilic organisms evolved to function at lower temperatures could not only provide insights into evolutionary biology but also aid in bioengineering enzymes ...

BACKGROUND: Thermophilic enzymes are often less active than their mesophilic homologues at low temperatures. One hypothesis to explain this observation is that the extra stabilizing interactions ...

A fundamental question is how enzymes can accelerate chemical reactions. Catalysis is not only defined by actual chemical steps, but also by enzyme structure and dynamics. To investigate the role ...

However, these enzymes are rapidly destroyed when exposed ... the team started to search for [FeFe]-hydrogenases from thermophilic bacteria. Employing bioinformatics tools, they found the ...

HheCas13a from Herbinix hemicellulosilytica was identified as a potential thermophilic enzyme. Its protein sequence was queried for a basic local alignment search tool (BLAST) search against non ...

Enzymes are proteins that speed up chemical reactions, such as laundry detergent digesting protein stains, which are otherwise very difficult to remove. A research team led by Professor Kam-bo ...