Macrolides are an important class of antibiotics that includes drugs such as azithromycin and erythromycin, which are widely ...

Enzymes with specific functions are becoming increasingly important in industry, medicine and environmental protection. For example, they make it possible to synthesize chemicals in a more ...

Macrolides are an important class of antibiotics that includes drugs such as azithromycin and erythromycin, which are widely ...

Enzymes with specific functions are becoming increasingly important in industry, medicine and environmental protection. For example, they make it ...

Triterpenoid saponins are key bioactive compounds responsible for the medicinal value of many plants, yet how plants regulate the balance between saponin production and sterol biosynthesis has ...

Complex sugar-protein molecules that sense external messages to help a cell grow or respond to its environment can now be ...

Researchers use cryo-EM and optical tweezers to investigate how an antiviral interacts with the herpes simplex virus.

Many people still don’t understand how protein works, why it matters or the best ways to get enough of it in their diet. Here ...

No gene acts alone: interacting variants and protein partnerships can worsen, mask or even rescue disease risk, demanding ...

Sometimes, in genetics, two wrongs do make a right. A research team has recently shown that two harmful genetic variants, ...

A research team has uncovered and reconstructed the complete biosynthetic pathway of polyphyllin II—a potent anticancer ...