{"id":648320,"date":"2020-03-05T04:05:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T08:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=648320"},"modified":"2020-03-05T04:05:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T08:05:14","slug":"zombie-scanning-enables-the-study-of-peptide-receptor-interactions-on-the-cell-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=648320","title":{"rendered":"Zombie scanning enables the study of peptide-receptor interactions on the cell surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, biologically-active peptides\u2014small proteins like neurotoxins and hormones that act on cell receptors to alter physiology\u2014were purified from native sources like venoms and then panels of variants were produced in bacteria, or synthesized, to study the structural basis for receptor interaction. A new technique called zombie scanning renders these older processes obsolete.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-03-zombie-scanning-enables-peptide-receptor-interactions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Zombie scanning enables the study of peptide-receptor interactions on the cell surface<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past, biologically-active peptides\u2014small proteins like neurotoxins and hormones that act on cell receptors to alter physiology\u2014were purified from native sources like venoms and then panels of variants were&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=648320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}