A recent study by Chinese scientists has revealed the intricate molecular machinery driving energy exchange within chloroplasts, shedding light on a key event in the evolution of plant life. Led by ...

DNA is fundamental to the biology of all life on Earth, but how many of us actually know what it is or what it's made of?

The positions of the nicotinamide and the ribose moieties in NAD + are slightly ... smaller than would be expected based on their chemical structures, suggesting either disorder or partial ...

DNA is the molecular basis of heredity ... DNA and RNA use the same five-carbon sugar, ribose, in their structure. The deoxy- means that on one side of the base pair, there's a place where ...

NR and vitamin B3 have slightly different chemical structures, but they share the same function ... These enzyme families, sirtuins (SIRTs) and poly(ADP-ribose) polymerases (PARPs), regulate numerous ...

FAMU-FSU College of Engineering researchers have created a new method for studying protein degradation within immune cells ...

Purdue University scientists have discovered a key mechanism that regulates how plants develop chloroplasts, essential ...

PARP7 is a mono-ADP-ribosyl transferase (mono-ART) which has recently gained attention due to its emerging role as a negative ...