On November 14th, the famous Swedish biochemist, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and former member of the Nobel Prize Chemistry Committee, Johan \u00c5qvist, will visit the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LSMU). He will read a lecture \u201cHow Enzymes Adapt to the Cold\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The lecture will take place at 11 a.m. in the Faculty of Pharmacy 202 auditorium. <\/strong>We invite all the members of University\u2019s community to participate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n About the lecture:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEnzymes from ectothermic species adapted to cold environments are able to maintain surprisingly high catalytic rates at low temperatures, where normal enzymes have lost most of their activity. These cold-adapted enzymes have some characteristic and universal properties that reflect their evolutionary optimization and we will discuss the structural and energetic principles of cold-adaptation. In particular, we will show how the temperature dependence of enzyme reaction rates can be obtained from atomistic computer simulations and how such calculations can shed new light on enzyme evolution in differently adapted species\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":98814,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"inline_featured_image":false},"events_categories":[86],"class_list":["post-98819","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","events_categories-general-events"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n