{"id":1609,"date":"2014-05-04T23:57:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T06:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2014-05-04T23:57:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T06:57:29","slug":"little-late-protein-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/2014\/05\/04\/little-late-protein-party\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Late to the Protein Party&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everybody!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to my wonderful friend, Irena, this account will now have multiple personalities.<\/p>\n<p>So for this post, I&#8217;m <em><strong>Michael<\/strong><\/em>, and after weeks of many difficulties, I think I finally found a protein!<\/p>\n<p>Rubisco (ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase\/oxygenase)!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/files\/2014\/05\/Fullscreen-capture-542014-114724-PM.bmp_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1610\" alt=\"Fullscreen capture 542014 114724 PM.bmp\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/files\/2014\/05\/Fullscreen-capture-542014-114724-PM.bmp_-300x143.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/150\/files\/2014\/05\/Fullscreen-capture-542014-114724-PM.bmp_-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/150\/files\/2014\/05\/Fullscreen-capture-542014-114724-PM.bmp_-1024x489.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/150\/files\/2014\/05\/Fullscreen-capture-542014-114724-PM.bmp_-400x191.jpg 400w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/150\/files\/2014\/05\/Fullscreen-capture-542014-114724-PM.bmp_.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lot of my classes have dealt with the carbon cycle, so I&#8217;m pretty interested in Rubisco&#8217;s role in converting inorganic carbon dioxide into organic carbon through carbon fixation. This process happens\u00a0<strong><em>REALLY<\/em><em> SLOW<\/em><\/strong>, making it the most abundant single enzyme on Earth to compensate its inefficiency. I also found this article of some scientists looking increase Rubisco&#8217;s carbon dioxide conversion rate so that plants are more efficient at sequestering carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everybody! Thanks to my wonderful friend, Irena, this account will now have multiple personalities. So for this post, I&#8217;m Michael, and after weeks of many difficulties, I think I finally found a protein! Rubisco (ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase\/oxygenase)! A lot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/2014\/05\/04\/little-late-protein-party\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5877,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4797],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5877"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/psquared\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}