Enzymes lower the activation energy necessary to transform a reactant into a product. On the left is a reaction that is not catalyzed by an enzyme (red), and on the right is one that is (green).

Because of their prominent role, numerous diseases are directly linked to specific enzyme-catalysed processes, either caused by erroneous enzyme activity or lack of activity for a given ...

As with many chemical reactions, the rate of an enzyme-catalysed reaction increases as the temperature increases. However, at high temperatures the rate decreases again because the enzyme becomes ...

Enzyme-catalysed antibiotic degradation, or modification or degradation of antibiotics or their targets, is one of the major mechanisms of antibiotic resistance. Plasmid borne genes encoding modifying ...