{"id":109792,"date":"2020-07-11T10:42:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T17:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/researchers-solve-a-50-year-old-enzyme-mystery"},"modified":"2020-07-11T10:42:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T17:42:56","slug":"researchers-solve-a-50-year-old-enzyme-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/researchers-solve-a-50-year-old-enzyme-mystery","title":{"rendered":"Researchers solve a 50-year-old enzyme mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-solve-a-50-year-old-enzyme-mystery2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advanced herbicides and treatments for infection may result from the unraveling of a 50-year-old mystery by University of Queensland researchers.<\/p>\n<p>The research team, led by UQ\u2019s Professor Luke Guddat, revealed the complete three-dimensional structure of an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/enzyme\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">enzyme<\/a>, providing the first step in the biosynthesis of three <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/essential+amino+acids\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">essential amino acids <\/a>\u2014leucine, valine and isoleucine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a major scientific advance, which has been pursued globally by chemists for half a century,\u201d Professor Guddat said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advanced herbicides and treatments for infection may result from the unraveling of a 50-year-old mystery by University of Queensland researchers. The research team, led by UQ\u2019s Professor Luke Guddat, revealed the complete three-dimensional structure of an enzyme, providing the first step in the biosynthesis of three essential amino acids \u2014leucine, valine and isoleucine. \u201cThis is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}