{"id":183976,"date":"2024-02-29T07:22:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T13:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/research-team-uncovers-universal-code-driving-the-formation-of-all-cell-membranes"},"modified":"2024-02-29T07:22:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T13:22:32","slug":"research-team-uncovers-universal-code-driving-the-formation-of-all-cell-membranes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/research-team-uncovers-universal-code-driving-the-formation-of-all-cell-membranes","title":{"rendered":"Research team uncovers universal code driving the formation of all cell membranes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-team-uncovers-universal-code-driving-the-formation-of-all-cell-membranes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Alberta have uncovered what they say has been the missing puzzle piece ever since the genetic code was first cracked.<\/p>\n<p>The code is the universal set of rules that allow living organisms to follow genetic instructions found in DNA and RNA to build proteins. In <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12915-024-01849-6\">new research<\/a>, published in <i>BMC Biology<\/i>, the U of A team describes a unifying code that guides the binding of those proteins with lipids to form membranes\u2014the wrapper around all <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cells<\/a> and cell components.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSixty years ago, scientists started to work on how genes encode proteins, but that\u2019s not the end of the story,\u201d says biochemistry professor Michael Overduin, executive director of the National High Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Center. \u201cAlong with DNA, RNA and proteins, living cells require membranes. Without the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/membrane\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">membrane<\/a>, it\u2019s like you\u2019ve got a house with no walls.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Alberta have uncovered what they say has been the missing puzzle piece ever since the genetic code was first cracked. The code is the universal set of rules that allow living organisms to follow genetic instructions found in DNA and RNA to build proteins. In new research, published in BMC [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183976","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\/183976","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=183976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}