Rhomboid proteases are a promising target for new drugs. Now researchers from the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) have uncovered a mechanism for regulating enzyme ...

In a recent study posted to the Research Square preprint* server, a team of researchers investigated the toxicity and absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME) characteristics of a ...

Ingredients giant DSM has unveiled a new toolbox for its protease enzymes that aims expand the use of the enzymes from niche market applications, and help manufacturers 'do more with protein.' The ...

Scientists found that the lungs of vapers -- like the lungs of smokers -- have elevated levels of protease enzymes, a condition known to cause emphysema in smokers. The researchers also found that the ...

AMSBIO (Oxford, UK), in association with Nordmark Biochemicals (Uetersen, Germany), has expanded its range of collagenase and neutral protease enzymes with Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)-grade ...

Pfizer is developing an oral drug to prevent COVID-19 infections. This drug, currently known as PF-07321332, is a protease inhibitor "designed to block the activity of the main protease enzyme that ...

Protease inhibitors are antiretroviral drugs that lower the amount of HIV in the blood, slowing the virus’s progression and easing symptoms. These medications can cause side effects such as changes in ...

A study introduces a method to measure active and inactive enzymes in single cells. Results show protein activity often ...

Animal fleshing, the major proteinaceous solid waste generated from leather industry, was used as substrate for the production of alkaline protease by Bacillus cereus 1173900 in solid-state ...

AIDS has killed 34 million people around the world. Of the critical sequential steps that are necessary for HIV to replicate, one of them requires a single molecule of water. In the absence this one ...