Plant cell wall components such as cellulose are abundant sources of carbohydrates that are widely used in biofuels and bioproducts; however, extraction of these components from plant biomass is ...

Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, Mumbai, India The perpetual release of natural/synthetic pollutants into the environment poses major risks to ...

Background: The kynurenine pathway (KP) is the major route of tryptophan catabolism in mammals. KP branches into two major pathways - one (dependent on the kynurenine aminotransferases) implicated in ...

Background: Cardiac fibrosis is a common pathological feature associated with adverse clinical outcome in postinjury remodeling and has no effective therapy. Using an unbiased transcriptome analysis, ...

Unusual monooxygenase mechanism adds oxygen to molecules without oxidizing them Aminoperoxide adduct on the enzyme’s cofactor leads to these nonoxidative oxygenation reactions by Celia Henry Arnaud ...

Keywords: flavin, polydopamine, light-driven reaction, monooxygenase, indole Citation: Crocker L and Fruk L (2019) Flavin Conjugated Polydopamine Nanoparticles Displaying Light-Driven Monooxygenase ...

We recently identified peptidylglycine α-amidating monooxygenase (PAM), an enzyme required for generating amidated bioactive signaling peptides, in Chlamydomonas and mammalian cilia. Here, we show ...

77 Background: Prostate cancer cells rely on cholesterol for proliferation and androgen production. We recently demonstrated that increased expression of the second key enzyme of cholesterol synthesis ...