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And basically our problem is somebody's in the middle of this very long stage, they pause for just a moment, and they leave something in an enzyme for a second, and all of a sudden all the measurements from then on don't work.
It's a description of the changes in the behavior of one enzyme when you drip a chemical extracted from some red grape skin onto some cancer cells in a dish on a bench in a laboratory somewhere.
But what atrazine does is it turns on an enzyme, the machinery if you will, aromatase, that converts testosterone into estrogen.
Because it turns out that the number one cancer in women, breast cancer, is regulated by estrogen and by this enzyme aromatase.
It's this enzyme that we are attempting to block.
The blockade of this enzyme should deprive the testes of retinoic acid and stop sperm production without affecting vitamin A's functions elsewhere in the body.
We put on creams that blocked the enzyme that made it, we injected things.
We know that Toxo releases an enzyme that makes dopamine, a substance involved in reward and motivation.
The main star is an enzyme called luciferase, which in the course of evolution has figured out a way to wrap its tiny arms around an even smaller molecule called luciferin, in the process getting it so excited that it actually gives off light.
It has a scissor called the enzyme CRISPR and what is called a guide RNA.
The microscope is a guide RNA, which brings the scissors to the place we want to cut and says, "Here it is," and the enzyme CRISPR just cuts and repairs the DNA in the way we want.
That's the place in the enzyme where the reaction happens.
Ibuprofen, on the other hand, enters the active site, but doesn't break apart or change the enzyme.
COX-1 and COX-2 are free to spit it out again, but for the time that that ibuprofen is in there, the enzyme can't bind arachidonic acid, and can't do its normal chemistry.
Sitting for long periods also temporarily deactivates lipoprotein lipase, a special enzyme in the walls of blood capillaries that breaks down fats in the blood, so when you sit, you're not burning fat nearly as well as when you move around.
It's a crude but convenient proxy for more important factors, like muscle mass, enzyme level, genetic traits they just don't have time to look for.
One enzyme can activate a thousand of these chemical reactions in an hour.
That means you have an enzyme in your cells that adds one more building block, that red sugar, to build a more complex structure.
You have a slightly different enzyme than the A people, so you build a slightly different structure, and those of you that are AB have the enzyme from your mother, the other enzyme from your father, and now you make both of these structures in roughly equal proportions.
It was a previously undreamed-of enzyme that could replenish, make longer, telomeres, and we named it telomerase.
Now, to do this, my bacteria use a special version of what's called an enzyme.
For instance, we humans have an enzyme called an amylase that helps us digest complex starches, such as bread, into small chunks of sugar that we can then use for energy.
Now, my bacteria have a special enzyme called a lipase that binds to big, tough, durable PET plastic and helps break it into small chunks of sugar that my bacteria can then use for energy.
It's an antiviral defense enzyme.
So they have a second enzyme that makes a second signal, and it has its own receptor, and this molecule is the trade language of bacteria.
And what the important thing is that we learned is that every bacterium has exactly the same enzyme and makes exactly the same molecule.
Grapefruit binds to the same enzyme as statins, making less of that enzyme available to break down statins.
Alcohol can also alter the function of the enzyme that breaks down Acetaminophen, the active ingredient in pain relievers like Tylenol and paracetamol.
Meanwhile, the herbal remedy Saint John’s Wort increases the liver’s production of a particular enzyme.
That means the drugs this enzyme is responsible for breaking down get metabolized faster— sometimes too fast, before they can have their therapeutic effects.
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