Scientists have finally captured footage of the microscopic machinery that allows our cells to copy DNA—a fundamental process ...

The enzyme which makes ATP is called ATP synthase, or ATPase, and sits on the mitochondria in animal cells or chloroplasts in plant cells. Walker first determined the amino acid sequence of this ...

A recent study by Chinese scientists has revealed the intricate molecular machinery driving energy exchange within ...

Charged amino acid side chains can form ionic bonds ... These chaperones use energy from ATP to bind and release polypeptides as they go through the folding process. Chaperones also assist ...

Food in, energy out? It’s not as simple as that. How do cells meet our bodies’ ever changing energy needs? In most animal cells, adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a compound with high potential ...

A new strategy for recycling spent lithium-ion batteries is based on a hydrometallurgical process in neutral solution. This allows for the extraction of lithium and other valuable metals in an ...

Proteins Proteins consist of combinations of amino acids. Body proteins include structural ... of releasing energy from food and storing it as ATP.

The hydrolysis of ATP serves as the energy source that drives ... estimated the rate of protein translocation to be about 2.2 amino acid residues per second, and a single SecYEG-SecA complex ...

The sequence of amino acids in the chain determines how the chain ... catalyses the breakdown of ATP and Cellulose synthase: catalyses the formation of cellulose from glucose molecules Hormones ...