Stick insects produce bacterial enzymes themselves In the course of evolution, genes of gut microbes 'jumped' to their insect host Date: May 31, 2016 ...

The Vietnamese stick insect species Ramulus artemis is one of several that acquired bacterium genes enabling the synthesis of the digestive enzyme pectinase. Photo by Matan Shelomi/MPI Chem. Ecol.

"While the plant enzymes for nepetalactone biosynthesis are all soluble, most of the insect enzymes are associated with a membrane," Tobias Köllner says. The biosynthetic pathway of the sex pheromone ...

Yi-Fei Xie, Wen-Jia Yang, Wei Dou, Jin-Jun Wang, CHARACTERIZATION OF THE CDNA ENCODING MEMBRANE-BOUND TREHALASE, ITS EXPRESSION AND ENZYME ACTIVITY IN BACTROCERA DORSALIS (DIPTERA: TEPHRITIDAE), The ...

Enzyme catalyzes cross-membrane reaction Hydrophilic and hydrophobic molecules don’t have to leave their natural environments to react by Stu Borman May 23, 2018 2 min read A ...

More information: Ratul Das et al, Bio-inspired gas-entrapping membranes (GEMs) derived from common water-wet materials for green desalination, Journal of Membrane Science (2019). DOI: 10.1016/j ...

The surface membranes of cells lining our lungs, ... An enzyme that links endocytosis to membrane recycling Date: December 6, 2016 Source: National Centre for Biological Sciences ...

Cardolipins are a separate class of phospholipids present in the cell membranes of organisms from all domains of life. In studying the enzyme that is responsible for producing cardiolipins in archaea ...

What’s special about Neocapritermes taracua is that, until it is attacked, the insect keeps a relatively innocuous molecule physically separate from an enzyme, named blue laccase BP76. When blue ...