{"id":6027,"date":"2022-02-23T09:38:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T17:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technarrativelab.org\/?p=6027"},"modified":"2024-01-29T17:26:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T01:26:07","slug":"not-stupid-protein-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/2022\/02\/23\/not-stupid-protein-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Not-Stupid Protein Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>via todd richmond<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in my previous life, my last biochemical research work was focused on protein engineering, with my group creating a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0006291X99912445\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">modified Green Fluorescence Protein that could bind metal ions<\/a>. The long-term vision was to create biosensors, but the short-term work I often described as &#8220;stupid protein tricks&#8221; &#8211; essentially making nature&#8217;s tools do something they didn&#8217;t evolve to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This field has grown significantly since the late 90&#8217;s when I ran my lab at Claremont, and the possibilities are coming in critical areas. For instance work out of Northwestern with <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-02-bacteria-upcycle-carbon-valuable-chemicals.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">engineered bacteria that convert CO2 gas into acetone<\/a> (an organic solvent that is useful for making other organic molecules).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Too little too late? Perhaps, but better than doing nothing, and fascinating work nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via todd richmond Back in my previous life, my last biochemical research work was focused on protein engineering, with my group creating a modified Green Fluorescence Protein that could bind metal ions. The long-term vision was to create biosensors, but the short-term work I often described as &#8220;stupid protein tricks&#8221; &#8211; essentially making nature&#8217;s tools&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creativity","category-environment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6499,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027\/revisions\/6499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}