{"id":176408,"date":"2023-11-21T07:22:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T13:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/a-profound-change-in-paradigm-scientists-uncover-new-origin-story-for-key-regulatory-gene"},"modified":"2023-11-21T07:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T13:22:27","slug":"a-profound-change-in-paradigm-scientists-uncover-new-origin-story-for-key-regulatory-gene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/a-profound-change-in-paradigm-scientists-uncover-new-origin-story-for-key-regulatory-gene","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA Profound Change in Paradigm\u201d \u2014 Scientists Uncover New Origin Story for Key Regulatory Gene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-profound-change-in-paradigm-scientists-uncover-new-origin-story-for-key-regulatory-gene.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2), initially identified in <em>Drosophila<\/em> several decades ago, was found to be a key controller of developmental genes. Subsequent research revealed that PRC2 alters chromatin structure to suppress the expression of specific genes.<\/p>\n<p>This initial understanding of PRC2\u2019s ancestral function \u2014 functioning primarily to control genes during development \u2014 was challenged when it was found to be active in unicellular organisms, in which no development takes place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2), initially identified in Drosophila several decades ago, was found to be a key controller of developmental genes. Subsequent research revealed that PRC2 alters chromatin structure to suppress the expression of specific genes. This initial understanding of PRC2\u2019s ancestral function \u2014 functioning primarily to control genes during development \u2014 was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176408","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=176408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}