Long-term use of enzyme-inducing antiseizure medications (eiASMs) is linked to a significant increase in incident cardiovascular disease risk in patients with epilepsy, new research suggests. It's the ...

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New obesity drugs could be inspired by discovery of an enzyme that controls both weight gain and cholesterol levels in animal ...

Epigenetic drug discovery and development programs have attracted much attention and investment in recent years. This is driven by the potential to develop novel therapeutic strategies that can ...

Pharmaceutical scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have identified and characterized a unique multidomain enzyme capable of catalyzing two distinct types of reactions, both ...

Brain cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes represent a specialised set of metabolic proteins that, while less abundant than their hepatic counterparts, play an increasingly acknowledged role in the local ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. – The human body is full of proteins called enzymes that help nearly every function in the body. Scientists have been studying enzymes for decades in order to learn how they work and how ...

Chemistry researchers at the University of Utah have uncovered an enzyme, dubbed PapB, that can “tie off” therapeutic peptides—protein-like drugs—into tight rings, a process known as macrocyclization.