{"id":189640,"date":"2024-05-17T19:33:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T00:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/study-reveals-how-a-sugar-sensing-protein-acts-as-a-machine-to-switch-plant-growth-and-oil-production-on-and-off"},"modified":"2024-05-17T19:33:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T00:33:31","slug":"study-reveals-how-a-sugar-sensing-protein-acts-as-a-machine-to-switch-plant-growth-and-oil-production-on-and-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/study-reveals-how-a-sugar-sensing-protein-acts-as-a-machine-to-switch-plant-growth-and-oil-production-on-and-off","title":{"rendered":"Study reveals how a sugar-sensing protein acts as a \u2018machine\u2019 to switch plant growth\u2014and oil production\u2014on and off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/study-reveals-how-a-sugar-sensing-protein-acts-as-a-machine-to-switch-plant-growth-and-oil-production-on-and-off2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Proteins are molecular machines, with flexible pieces and moving parts. Understanding how these parts move helps scientists unravel the function a protein plays in living things\u2014and potentially how to change its effects. Biochemists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and colleagues at DOE\u2019s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have published a new example of how one such molecular machine works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proteins are molecular machines, with flexible pieces and moving parts. Understanding how these parts move helps scientists unravel the function a protein plays in living things\u2014and potentially how to change its effects. Biochemists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and colleagues at DOE\u2019s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have published a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189640","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}