{"id":85945,"date":"2018-12-17T21:22:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T05:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/switch-in-a-cell-electrifies-life"},"modified":"2018-12-17T21:22:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T05:22:40","slug":"switch-in-a-cell-electrifies-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/switch-in-a-cell-electrifies-life","title":{"rendered":"Switch-in-a-cell electrifies life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/switch-in-a-cell-electrifies-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Rice University have developed synthetic protein switches to control the flow of electrons.<\/p>\n<p>The proof-of-concept, metal-containing proteins made in the Rice lab of synthetic biologist Joff Silberg are expressed within <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cells<\/a> upon the introduction of one chemical and are functionally activated by another chemical. If the proteins have been placed in the cell, they can simply be turned on and off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a metaphor for a switch, it is a literal electrical switch built from a protein,\u201d Silberg said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-12-switch-in-a-cell-electrifies-life.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;12-switch-in-a-cell-electrifies-life.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Rice University have developed synthetic protein switches to control the flow of electrons. The proof-of-concept, metal-containing proteins made in the Rice lab of synthetic biologist Joff Silberg are expressed within cells upon the introduction of one chemical and are functionally activated by another chemical. If the proteins have been placed in the cell, [\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-85945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85945","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=85945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}