{"id":187185,"date":"2024-04-11T14:29:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T19:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/emergence-of-fractal-geometries-in-the-evolution-of-a-metabolic-enzyme"},"modified":"2024-04-11T14:29:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T19:29:27","slug":"emergence-of-fractal-geometries-in-the-evolution-of-a-metabolic-enzyme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/emergence-of-fractal-geometries-in-the-evolution-of-a-metabolic-enzyme","title":{"rendered":"Emergence of fractal geometries in the evolution of a metabolic enzyme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/emergence-of-fractal-geometries-in-the-evolution-of-a-metabolic-enzyme2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Citrate synthase from the cyanobacterium <i>Synechococcus <i>elongatus<\/i><\/i> is shown to self-assemble into Sierpi\u0144ski triangles, a finding that opens up the possibility that other naturally occurring molecular-scale fractals exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citrate synthase from the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus is shown to self-assemble into Sierpi\u0144ski triangles, a finding that opens up the possibility that other naturally occurring molecular-scale fractals exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187185","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\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}