{"id":12235,"date":"2009-07-09T09:21:33","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T16:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2009\/07\/09\/protein-name.html"},"modified":"2009-07-09T09:21:33","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T16:21:33","slug":"protein-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2009\/07\/09\/protein-name\/","title":{"rendered":"protein name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There's a drug called rapamycin, which is showing <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.med.umich.edu\/prmc\/media\/newsroom\/details.cfm?ID=1223\">promising results<\/a> in anti-aging studies.<\/p>\n<p>But that's not why I'm mentioning it here. I'm mentioning it because of this sentence from the abovelinked article:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A review committee decided to test this agent because rapamycin blocks a protein called \"target of rapamycin,\" or TOR.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For all I know, that's a completely standard way to name proteins, but I'm nonetheless tickled. It's like naming a plant \"FOD,\" for \"food of deer.\" Or changing the term \"President\" to \"GOP,\" for \"goal of politicians.\"<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a drug called rapamycin, which is showing promising results in anti-aging studies. But that&#8217;s not why I&#8217;m mentioning it here. I&#8217;m mentioning it because of this sentence from the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-names","category-specific-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}