{"id":155296,"date":"2023-01-12T20:23:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T02:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/new-research-reveals-the-biochemical-rings-of-power"},"modified":"2023-01-12T20:23:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T02:23:36","slug":"new-research-reveals-the-biochemical-rings-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/new-research-reveals-the-biochemical-rings-of-power","title":{"rendered":"New Research Reveals the Biochemical \u201cRings of Power\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-reveals-the-biochemical-rings-of-power.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/max-planck-institute\/>Max Planck Institute<\/a> for Terrestrial Microbiology have discovered the biosynthesis of a rare compound called benzoxazolinate, which is found in Benzobactins \u2013 a class of bacterial natural products that have unique biological activity due to its two-ring structure.<\/p>\n<p>By utilizing genomic research, scientists were able to uncover the previously unknown genes responsible for its formation. This breakthrough opens doors to the discovery of a multitude of new natural compounds with medical applications.<\/p>\n<p>Microorganisms in their natural habitat often face varying environmental conditions and have evolved to produce a diverse range of natural products with various chemical compositions and functions to aid their survival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology have discovered the biosynthesis of a rare compound called benzoxazolinate, which is found in Benzobactins \u2013 a class of bacterial natural products that have unique biological activity due to its two-ring structure. By utilizing genomic research, scientists were able to uncover the previously unknown genes responsible [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155296","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}