{"id":215912,"date":"2025-06-14T05:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T10:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/scientists-visualize-key-protein-structures-linked-to-immune-response-and-inflammation"},"modified":"2025-06-14T05:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T10:20:17","slug":"scientists-visualize-key-protein-structures-linked-to-immune-response-and-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/scientists-visualize-key-protein-structures-linked-to-immune-response-and-inflammation","title":{"rendered":"Scientists visualize key protein structures linked to immune response and inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-visualize-key-protein-structures-linked-to-immune-response-and-inflammation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two key protein structures in the body are being visualized for the first time, thanks in part to the latest technology in the University of Cincinnati\u2019s Center for Advanced Structural Biology\u2014potentially opening the door for better designed therapeutics.<\/p>\n<p>The research of a trio of UC structural biologists was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2500732122\" target=\"_blank\">published today in the <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i> (<i>PNAS<\/i>)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first publication to come out of the Seegar Lab at UC. Tom Seegar, Ph.D., Ohio Eminent Scholar and assistant professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences in the College of Medicine, serves as corresponding author of the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two key protein structures in the body are being visualized for the first time, thanks in part to the latest technology in the University of Cincinnati\u2019s Center for Advanced Structural Biology\u2014potentially opening the door for better designed therapeutics. The research of a trio of UC structural biologists was published today in the Proceedings of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215912","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=215912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}