Cellulosic ethanol has long been recognized as a poor economic strategy, mainly due to its low enzymatic hydrolysis efficiency. The key to a successful cellulase product is based on gaining an ...

Each enzyme molecule has a special place called the active site where another molecule, called the substrate, fits. The substrate goes through a chemical reaction and changes into a new molecule ...

The enzyme (blue) binds to its substrate (red) to form an enzyme-substrate complex. The enzyme then catalyzes the conversion of the substrate into products (pink), which are released. The enzyme ...

Enzymes are able to bind to their substrate ... Some metabolic reactions are reversible and the presence of a substrate or removal of a product will drive a sequence of reactions in a particular ...

Many of the amino acids directly involved in substrate binding are sequentially ... of a diverse family of plant natural product biosynthetic enzymes and serve as a structural foundation for ...

Thus, these enzymes likely coordinate with one another to receive the damaged DNA substrate and efficiently pass the resulting DNA product along to the next enzyme, just as a baton is passed from ...