{"id":734811,"date":"2022-09-12T15:59:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T19:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=734811"},"modified":"2022-09-12T15:59:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T19:59:03","slug":"researchers-explore-enzymes-that-use-a-cation-not-oxygen-addition-to-drive-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=734811","title":{"rendered":"Researchers explore enzymes that use a cation, not oxygen-addition, to drive reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Texas at Austin have defined the structure of a substrate-bound iron 2-oxoglutarate (Fe\/2OG) enzyme to explore whether these enzymes could be used to create a wide array of molecules. They probed the enzyme&#8217;s active site to determine its ability to bind with different substrates. Additionally, rather than oxygen-addition, they saw that Fe\/2OG enzymes likely utilize cations\u2014highly reactive species\u2014to drive desaturation during catalysis. The work, published in Nature Communications, could lead to the use of Fe\/2OG enzymes in making a wide array of valuable molecules.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-09-explore-enzymes-cation-oxygen-addition-reactions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Researchers explore enzymes that use a cation, not oxygen-addition, to drive reactions<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Texas at Austin have defined the structure of a substrate-bound iron 2-oxoglutarate (Fe\/2OG) enzyme to explore whether these enzymes could&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-734811","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\/734811","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=734811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734811\/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=734811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}