{"id":751966,"date":"2023-03-30T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=751966"},"modified":"2023-03-30T11:00:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T15:00:05","slug":"structure-of-oil-eating-enzyme-opens-door-to-bioengineered-catalysts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=751966","title":{"rendered":"Structure of &#039;oil-eating&#039; enzyme opens door to bioengineered catalysts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s Brookhaven National Laboratory have produced the first atomic-level structure of an enzyme that selectively cuts carbon-hydrogen bonds\u2014the first and most challenging step in turning simple hydrocarbons into more useful chemicals. As described in a paper just published in Nature Structural &amp; Molecular Biology, the detailed atomic level &#8220;blueprint&#8221; suggests ways to engineer the enzyme to produce desired products.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-03-oil-eating-enzyme-door-bioengineered-catalysts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Structure of &#8216;oil-eating&#8217; enzyme opens door to bioengineered catalysts<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s Brookhaven National Laboratory have produced the first atomic-level structure of an enzyme that selectively cuts carbon-hydrogen bonds\u2014the first and most challenging step in&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-751966","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\/751966","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=751966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751966\/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=751966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}