Horseradish peroxidase has been the subject of scientific research for centuries. It has been
used exhaustively as reporter enzyme in diagnostics and histochemistry and still plays a …

Natural proteins are often only slightly more stable in the native state than the denatured
state, and an increase in environmental temperature can easily shift the balance toward …

Highlights•Ancestral sequence reconstruction can reveal ancient protein properties.•Many
reconstructed Precambrian proteins exhibit elevated thermostability.•It is unclear whether …

Whole genome duplication (WGD) and tandem duplication (TD) are important modes of
gene amplification and functional innovation, and they are common in plant genome …

Ancestral sequence reconstruction (ASR) represents a powerful approach for empirical
testing structure‐function relationships of diverse proteins. We employed ASR to predict …

Abstract Background Floudas et al.(Science 336: 1715) established that lignin-degrading
fungi appeared at the end of Carboniferous period associated with the production of the first …

Plants encode specific class III peroxidases (POX) as large multigene families that are
involved in lignification, cell elongation, stress defense, and seed germination. However …

Medical care is the most critical issue of our time and will be so for the foreseeable future. In
this regard, the pace and sophistication of advances in medicine in the past two decades …

Baccatin III is a crucial precursor in the biosynthesis pathway of paclitaxel. Its main sources
are extraction from Taxus or chemical synthesis using 10-deacetylbaccatin III (10-DAB) as …

This chapter provides a detailed and practical introduction to immunoassays. It examines the
comprehensive guides to different immunoassay formats ranging from direct to competitive …