{"id":15793,"date":"2015-07-29T20:46:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T03:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/researchers-build-bacterias-photosynthetic-engine"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:26:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:26:01","slug":"researchers-build-bacterias-photosynthetic-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/researchers-build-bacterias-photosynthetic-engine","title":{"rendered":"Researchers build bacteria\u2019s photosynthetic engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-build-bacterias-photosynthetic-engine.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurthermore, the chromatophore project marks a shift in computational biophysics from analyzing the individual cell parts (e.g., a single protein) to analyzing the specialized systems of the cell (e.g., hundreds of proteins working together to carry out an autonomous function). This is a significant step toward the long-term goal of simulating an entire living organism.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Nearly all life on Earth depends on photosynthesis, the conversion of light energy into chemical energy. Oxygen-producing plants and cyanobacteria perfected this process 2.7 billion years ago. But the first photosynthetic organisms were likely single-celled purple bacteria that began absorbing near-infrared light and converting it to sulfur or sulfates about 3.4 billion years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-07-bacteria-photosynthetic.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFurthermore, the chromatophore project marks a shift in computational biophysics from analyzing the individual cell parts (e.g., a single protein) to analyzing the specialized systems of the cell (e.g., hundreds of proteins working together to carry out an autonomous function). This is a significant step toward the long-term goal of simulating an entire living organism.\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15793","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69788,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15793\/revisions\/69788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}