{"id":97599,"date":"2019-10-19T01:03:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T08:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/new-universe-of-miniproteins-is-upending-cell-biology-and-genetics"},"modified":"2019-10-19T01:03:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T08:03:06","slug":"new-universe-of-miniproteins-is-upending-cell-biology-and-genetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/new-universe-of-miniproteins-is-upending-cell-biology-and-genetics","title":{"rendered":"New universe of miniproteins is upending cell biology and genetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-universe-of-miniproteins-is-upending-cell-biology-and-genetics3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Small proteins also promise to revise the current understanding of the genome. Many appear to be encoded in stretches of DNA\u2014and RNA\u2014that were not thought to help build proteins of any sort. Some researchers speculate that the short stretches of DNA could be newborn genes, on their way to evolving into larger genes that make full-size proteins. Thanks in part to small proteins, \u201cWe need to rethink what genes are,\u201d says microbiologist and molecular biologist Gisela Storz of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda, Maryland.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Tiny proteins help power muscles and provide the toxic punch to many venoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small proteins also promise to revise the current understanding of the genome. Many appear to be encoded in stretches of DNA\u2014and RNA\u2014that were not thought to help build proteins of any sort. Some researchers speculate that the short stretches of DNA could be newborn genes, on their way to evolving into larger genes that make [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97599","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}