{"id":167973,"date":"2023-07-21T10:24:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T15:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/fueled-by-new-chemistry-algorithm-mines-fungi-for-useful-molecules"},"modified":"2023-07-21T10:24:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T15:24:28","slug":"fueled-by-new-chemistry-algorithm-mines-fungi-for-useful-molecules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/fueled-by-new-chemistry-algorithm-mines-fungi-for-useful-molecules","title":{"rendered":"Fueled by new chemistry, algorithm mines fungi for useful molecules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fueled-by-new-chemistry-algorithm-mines-fungi-for-useful-molecules2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly described type of chemistry in fungi is both surprisingly common and likely to involve highly reactive enzymes, two traits that make the genes involved useful signposts pointing to a potential treasure trove of biological compounds with medical and chemical applications.<\/p>\n<p>It was also nearly invisible to scientists until now.<\/p>\n<p>In the last 15 years, the hunt for molecules from living organisms\u2014many with promise as drugs, antimicrobial agents, chemical catalysts and even food additives\u2014has relied on <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/computer+algorithms\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">computer algorithms<\/a> trained to search the DNA of bacteria, fungi and plants for genes that produce enzymes known to drive <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/biological+processes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">biological processes<\/a> that result in interesting compounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly described type of chemistry in fungi is both surprisingly common and likely to involve highly reactive enzymes, two traits that make the genes involved useful signposts pointing to a potential treasure trove of biological compounds with medical and chemical applications. It was also nearly invisible to scientists until now. In the last 15 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1523,1506,412,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-food","category-genetics","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167973","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}