{"id":166343,"date":"2023-06-24T20:22:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T01:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/new-study-reveals-a-hidden-mechanism-for-controlling-a-cells-molecules"},"modified":"2023-06-24T20:22:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T01:22:47","slug":"new-study-reveals-a-hidden-mechanism-for-controlling-a-cells-molecules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/new-study-reveals-a-hidden-mechanism-for-controlling-a-cells-molecules","title":{"rendered":"New Study Reveals A Hidden Mechanism for Controlling A Cell\u2019s Molecules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-study-reveals-a-hidden-mechanism-for-controlling-a-cells-molecules2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some mutations were like a tax rebate and raised the propensity of TAR to adopt its biologically active structures, while other modifications raised the tax and decreased the odds that TAR would adopt a biologically active structure.<\/p>\n<p><b>Hidden mechanism may lead to new drugs<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we found was a hidden mechanism for controlling the activity of a molecule in a cell,\u201d says Al-Hashimi. By altering the propensity of TAR to form biologically active states\u2014by changing the tax rate\u2014the researchers could fine-tune the molecule\u2019s activity in cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some mutations were like a tax rebate and raised the propensity of TAR to adopt its biologically active structures, while other modifications raised the tax and decreased the odds that TAR would adopt a biologically active structure. Hidden mechanism may lead to new drugs \u201cWhat we found was a hidden mechanism for controlling the activity [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166343","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}