{"id":675645,"date":"2020-12-10T17:04:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=675645"},"modified":"2020-12-10T17:04:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:04:49","slug":"a-genetic-shortcut-to-help-visualize-proteins-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=675645","title":{"rendered":"A genetic shortcut to help visualize proteins at work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of biologists&#8217; most vexing tasks is figuring out how proteins, the molecules that carry the brunt of a cell&#8217;s work, do their job. Each protein has a variety of knobs, folds, and clefts on its surface that dictate what it can do. Scientists can visualize these features fairly easily on individual proteins. But proteins don&#8217;t act alone, and scientists also need to know the shape and composition\u2014the structure, as they call it\u2014of the complexes that proteins form when working together.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-12-genetic-shortcut-visualize-proteins.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">A genetic shortcut to help visualize proteins at work<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of biologists&#8217; most vexing tasks is figuring out how proteins, the molecules that carry the brunt of a cell&#8217;s work, do their job. Each protein has a variety of&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-675645","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\/675645","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=675645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675645\/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=675645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}