{"id":43782,"date":"2022-04-06T15:24:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T15:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2022-04-06\/una-nueva-tecnica-ilumina-el-segundo-secreto-de-la-vida-el-alosterismo.html"},"modified":"2022-04-06T15:24:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T15:24:50","slug":"una-nueva-tecnica-ilumina-el-segundo-secreto-de-la-vida-el-alosterismo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/una-nueva-tecnica-ilumina-el-segundo-secreto-de-la-vida-el-alosterismo\/","title":{"rendered":"A new technique illuminates the second secret of life: allosterism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cuatro a\u00f1os antes de ganar el Nobel de Medicina, el bi\u00f3logo franc\u00e9s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/medicine\/1965\/monod\/facts\/\">Jacques Monod<\/a> se plant\u00f3 una noche de 1961 en el laboratorio de una colega y, con cara de cansancio y tras unos minutos de silencio, proclam\u00f3: \u201cCreo que he descubierto el segundo secreto de la vida\u201d. Su compa\u00f1era, la microbi\u00f3loga Agnes Ullmann, le pregunt\u00f3 <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/gbe\/article\/doi\/10.1093\/gbe\/evr024\/579264\">si necesitaba un vaso de whisky<\/a>. A la tercera copa, Monod le explic\u00f3 que hab\u00eda observado un fen\u00f3meno asombroso: las prote\u00ednas, aut\u00e9nticas protagonistas de la materia viva, ten\u00edan una especie de botones ocultos que cambiaban su funci\u00f3n. Monod, incluso, ya hab\u00eda inventado una palabra para definir aquella sorprendente transformaci\u00f3n: alosterismo. M\u00e1s de medio siglo despu\u00e9s, un equipo de cient\u00edficos de Barcelona ha descubierto un m\u00e9todo para identificar esos botones secretos. Los autores sostienen que el sistema podr\u00eda \u201crevolucionar\u201d el descubrimiento de f\u00e1rmacos contra el c\u00e1ncer y otras enfermedades.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2022-04-06\/una-nueva-tecnica-ilumina-el-segundo-secreto-de-la-vida-el-alosterismo.html\" >Keep reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tool reveals the hidden buttons that change the function of proteins, a phenomenon that can accelerate the discovery of drugs against cancer and other diseases<\/p>","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43783,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43782\/revisions\/43783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}