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Enzyme Structure

Enzyme structure refers to the three-dimensional arrangement of an enzyme, the protein molecule that catalyses biochemical reactions, and how that structure determines its function. Enzymes are built from chains of amino acids that fold into specific shapes, creating an active site whose geometry and chemistry allow…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 10 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 12× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2690-4829 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Enzyme structure refers to the three-dimensional arrangement of an enzyme, the protein molecule that catalyses biochemical reactions, and how that structure determines its function. Enzymes are built from chains of amino acids that fold into specific shapes, creating an active site whose geometry and chemistry allow the enzyme to bind particular substrates and accelerate their conversion to products. Features such as the folding pattern, the residues lining the active site, and networks of interactions like hydrogen bonds govern an enzyme's specificity, catalytic efficiency, and stability, so changes to structure can alter or abolish activity. Understanding enzyme structure is therefore central to enzymology, biochemistry, and the engineering of Enzymes for research and industry. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to enzyme structure and function published in the Enzymes journal and related OpenAccessPub titles. On-topic work includes a study showing that disruption of the hydrogen-bonding network decreases the catalytic diversity of chloroperoxidase by abolishing both its chlorination and dismutation activities, which directly links structural interactions to catalytic function, alongside broader discussions of enzymology and the characterisation of enzyme activities. Together these articles reflect the field's emphasis on how an enzyme's molecular architecture shapes its catalytic behaviour, specificity, and stability.

Research published in this journal

10 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2018

Enzymology in its Second Century

Brumm PhillipCorresponding author
C5-6 Technologies LLC, 5627 Old Oak Drive, Fitchburg, WI 53711, USA
Enzymes doi:10.14302/issn.2690-4829.jen-18-2010

How this research is being cited

The 10 articles above have been cited 12 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Enzyme Structure, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Enzymes (ISSN 2690-4829).

Journal editorial board
Loredana Marcolongo · Italy Melike Caglayan · United States Daniela Vullo · Italy

This page summarises published research for orientation; it is not medical or professional advice.