First observation of metamorphosis of an enzyme that catalyzes two chemical reactions
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 12:01
in Biology & Nature
Professor Takayoshi Wakagi and Associate Professor Shinya Fushinobu of the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the University of Tokyo and colleagues were the first to clarify how an enzyme of hyperthermophilic archaea origin that is thought to be positioned close to the origin of life can catalyze two reactions while metamorphosing itself.