{"id":149782,"date":"2022-11-09T15:25:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T21:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/enzymes-in-human-cells-probably-evolved-from-primordial-organisms"},"modified":"2022-11-09T15:25:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T21:25:17","slug":"enzymes-in-human-cells-probably-evolved-from-primordial-organisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/enzymes-in-human-cells-probably-evolved-from-primordial-organisms","title":{"rendered":"Enzymes in human cells probably evolved from primordial organisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/enzymes-in-human-cells-probably-evolved-from-primordial-organisms2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers at Ume\u00e5 University has discovered that an enzyme in human cells has probably evolved from an ancient single-celled organism. The enzyme\u2019s unique properties mean that it could be used as a building block in the design of new enzymes, for example in processing wood raw materials. The discoveries are presented in Science Advances.<\/p>\n<p>Life on Earth is divided into three groups of organisms: bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes, with humans belonging to the last group, the eukaryotes. One theory is that we evolved from archaea, which in turn may have evolved from bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a team of researchers from the Department of Chemistry at Ume\u00e5 University has discovered clear traces of an archaea (odinarchaeota) in an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/enzyme\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">enzyme<\/a> found in the nucleus of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/human+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human cells<\/a>. The human enzyme is called AK6 and has a variety of functions, such as energy metabolism, genome stabilization and programmed cell death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers at Ume\u00e5 University has discovered that an enzyme in human cells has probably evolved from an ancient single-celled organism. The enzyme\u2019s unique properties mean that it could be used as a building block in the design of new enzymes, for example in processing wood raw materials. The discoveries are presented in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149782","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}