{"id":246201,"date":"2026-10-30T03:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/evolutionary-changes-in-key-enzyme-may-help-bacteria-make-proteins-faster"},"modified":"2026-10-30T03:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:59:14","slug":"evolutionary-changes-in-key-enzyme-may-help-bacteria-make-proteins-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/evolutionary-changes-in-key-enzyme-may-help-bacteria-make-proteins-faster","title":{"rendered":"Evolutionary changes in key enzyme may help bacteria make proteins faster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Evolutionary changes in a key protein synthesis enzyme, isoleucyl-tRNA synthetase (IleRS), may help bacteria fine-tune how quickly proteins are made, report researchers from Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan; the University of Zagreb Faculty of Science, Croatia; and ETH Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers traced the enzyme\u2019s evolutionary history and identified three distinct IleRS clades. Their findings show that C-terminal remodeling, including repeated loss of a structural region called \u201cINS,\u201d may have helped refine enzyme activity and reaction speed.<\/p>\n<p>The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-026-78241-1\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evolutionary changes in a key protein synthesis enzyme, isoleucyl-tRNA synthetase (IleRS), may help bacteria fine-tune how quickly proteins are made, report researchers from Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan; the University of Zagreb Faculty of Science, Croatia; and ETH Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland. Researchers traced the enzyme\u2019s evolutionary history and identified three distinct IleRS clades. Their findings show [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246201","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=246201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}