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A forest of curved hairs prevents his escape, guiding him into a central chamber with flesh-digesting enzymes and deadly low levels of oxygen.
Enzymes that chew things up, antibodies, it’s all, you know, the fit between a protein and whatever it is grabbing, in this case a smell.
Now, enzymes are simply compounds that exist in all living things.
There are many different types of enzymes, but basically, they make processes go forward, such as the digestion of food into energy.
Neutrophils release little granules filled with enzymes that try to break down the surface of the insulin pump’s needle.
Macrophages secrete enzymes too, together with nitric oxide radicals, which create a chemical reaction that degrades the object over time.
And enzymes are the secret, kind of, ingredient in dough that brings out flavor.
That's what enzymes are doing.
Enzymes are breaking forth sugars.
Trees can also share information about events like drought or insect attacks through their fungal networks, causing their neighbors to increase production of protective enzymes in anticipation of threats.
As they infect more cells, the bacteria employ cell-degrading enzymes that destroy the infected tissue, triggering chest pain, and causing patients to cough up blood.
There are certain very important but sensitive drugs that are easily degraded by enzymes in the blood.
Following impact, immune cells rush in to help clean and repair the damaged site and begin pumping out enzymes, including matrix metalloproteinases and aggrecanases.
These enzymes clear out the damaged tissue and contribute to inflammation.
The continuing flood of enzymes starts to degrade the cartilage, weakening the joint and leading to arthritis later on.
This leads to the flood of enzymes and degradation seen in osteoarthritis, but is driven by different inflammatory proteins called cytokines.
As the enzymes eat away at cartilage, the body attempts to stabilize smaller joints by fusing them together.
The liver produces enzymes, molecules that facilitate the breakdown of substances that enter the body.
Enzymes can both activate drugs, by breaking them down into their therapeutic ingredients from more complex molecules, and deactivate them, by breaking harmful compounds down into harmless metabolites.
There are many, many different enzymes, each of which has a binding site that fits a specific molecule.
All the things that I just mentioned, from the scents of lilacs and pines to the bright red of cranberries and the glow of fireflies, have at least one thing in common: they're manufactured by enzymes.
For at least the last 7,000 years, humans have extracted a mixture of enzymes from the stomachs of cows and sheep and goats and added it to milk.
Now my son Anthony, who is eight years old, was very interested in helping me figure out a demo for the TED Talk, and so we were in the kitchen, we were slicing up pineapples, extracting enzymes from red potatoes and doing all kinds of demos in the kitchen.
If DNA is the blueprint of life, enzymes are the laborers that carry out its instructions.
While enzymes do play an important role in the foods that we eat, they also are involved in everything from the health of an infant to attacking the biggest environmental challenges we have today.
The basic building blocks of enzymes are called amino acids.
And it's really the identity of the amino acids, which letters are in that necklace, and in what order they are, what they spell out, that gives an enzyme its unique properties and differentiates it from other enzymes.
Nowadays, we can make enzymes in microbes, and that can be like a bacteria or a yeast, for example.
And what's even cooler, I think, is we can now dial in completely custom DNA sequences to make whatever enzymes we want, stuff that's not out there in nature.
Nowadays, we can harness the powers of directed evolution to design enzymes for custom purposes, and one of these is designing enzymes for doing applications in new areas, like laundry.
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