{"id":173371,"date":"2023-10-03T12:25:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T17:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/scientists-discover-a-completely-new-type-of-enzyme-that-helps-fight-genomic-parasites"},"modified":"2023-10-03T12:25:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T17:25:58","slug":"scientists-discover-a-completely-new-type-of-enzyme-that-helps-fight-genomic-parasites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/scientists-discover-a-completely-new-type-of-enzyme-that-helps-fight-genomic-parasites","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover a Completely New Type of Enzyme That Helps Fight Genomic Parasites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-a-completely-new-type-of-enzyme-that-helps-fight-genomic-parasites.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Professor Ren\u00e9 Ketting\u2019s team at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz, Germany, along with Dr. Sebastian Falk\u2019s group at the Max Perutz Labs in Vienna, Austria, have discovered a new enzyme, PUCH, which plays a key role in preventing the spread of parasitic DNA<\/p>\n<p>DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of two long strands of nucleotides that coil around each other to form a double helix. It is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms that carries genetic instructions for development, functioning, growth, and reproduction. Nearly every cell in a person\u2019s body has the same DNA. Most DNA is located in the cell nucleus (where it is called nuclear DNA), but a small amount of DNA can also be found in the mitochondria (where it is called mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Ren\u00e9 Ketting\u2019s team at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz, Germany, along with Dr. Sebastian Falk\u2019s group at the Max Perutz Labs in Vienna, Austria, have discovered a new enzyme, PUCH, which plays a key role in preventing the spread of parasitic DNA DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule composed of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173371","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}