Enzyme

Enzyme activity

How Enzymes Behave “At Home” in the Cell

24.10.2017

Biochemistry, Systems Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology

A first-ever study of enzyme efficiency inside living cells reveals a surprising constraint on their activities

Water dynamics near an enzyme-collagen complex: The rates at which water molecules exchange hydrogen bonds with one another depend on the distance from the active site of the enzyme (gray) and on the type of collagen interacting with the enzyme; the different rates create a gradient of water motions, ranging from extremely fast (red) to very slow (blue and light-blue)

It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over

04.02.2015

Water molecules in the body keep going after the main reaction is over

Prof. Irit Sagi, Dr. Dmitry Tworowski, Moran Grossman and Dr. Benjamin Born. Water dymanics

14.12.2011

Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology

What happens when water meets protein?

A(l-r) Prof. Irit Sagi, Barak Akabayov and Ariel Solomon.

01.10.2007

Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Structural Biology

A technique for observing rapid enzyme movements in real time may help in developing better drugs

Live Footage of Enzymes

Live Footage of Enzymes

01.05.2004

Biochemistry, Structural Biology

Biological molecules are now being featured on "reality TV" in the lab of Prof. Irit Sagi

New method tracking single atoms may lead to improved drug design

New method tracking single atoms may lead to improved drug design

05.01.2004

Biochemistry, Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Structural Biology

Prof. Irit Sagi and her team are using new and innovative methods developed at the Weizmann Institute to see real time “video...

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