Only bacterial enzymes can do the job.
In the late 1990s, Chandrasegaran was trying to manipulate bacterial enzymes that cut DNA2.
Two recently discovered bacterial enzymes that specifically degrade PET represent a promising solution.
Since these bacterial enzymes are unique, poisons directed at them won't harm human topoisomerases.
He also pioneered in studies of bacterial enzymes and metabolism.
The trait, developed from bacterial enzymes, allows crops to detoxify the herbicide glyphosate, according to a study in the journal Science.
Blood breakthrough: Red blood cells, like those pictured above, can be converted into a universal donor type by bacterial enzymes.
The comparison of human and bacterial enzymes "bodes well for the possible development of new antibiotics," explains McMillan.
They identified two bacterial enzymes that cleave only A- or B-type sugars, leaving other sugars on the blood cells' surfaces intact.
Moreover, we have demonstrated that ScASNase1 has antineoplastic potential in the MOLT-4 leukemic cell lineage, similarly to that observed for type II bacterial enzymes.
An uncle of hers, Jacques Monod, a Frenchman who died in 1976, was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1965 for research on bacterial enzymes.
