{"id":6004,"date":"2025-04-28T07:06:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T12:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/?p=6004"},"modified":"2025-04-28T07:06:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T12:06:04","slug":"csb-research-spotlight-wankowicz-lab-how-protein-movement-influences-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/2025\/04\/28\/csb-research-spotlight-wankowicz-lab-how-protein-movement-influences-function\/","title":{"rendered":"CSB Research Spotlight: Wankowicz Lab &#8211; How protein movement influences function"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-attachment-id=\"5360\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/2024\/06\/14\/research-spotlight-fesik-lab\/csb-research-spotlight\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2024\/06\/14085600\/CSB-Research-Spotlight.png\" data-orig-size=\"500,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"CSB Research Spotlight\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2024\/06\/14085600\/CSB-Research-Spotlight-300x180.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2024\/06\/14085600\/CSB-Research-Spotlight.png\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5360\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2024\/06\/14085600\/CSB-Research-Spotlight.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2024\/06\/14085600\/CSB-Research-Spotlight.png 500w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/212\/2024\/06\/14085600\/CSB-Research-Spotlight-300x180.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Understanding how proteins get from point A to point B is top of mind for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/faculty-core\/stephanie-wankowicz\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephanie Wankowicz<\/a>, assistant professor of molecular physiology and biophysics.<\/p>\n<p>The Wankowicz lab conducts research on how entropy, a measure of the tendency toward disorder or randomness within a system, shifts when a protein binds to a drug or another protein.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about how this research work lays the groundwork for future breakthroughs on the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2025\/04\/07\/stephanie-wankowicz-exploring-protein-form-and-function\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Research News website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding how proteins get from point A to point B is top of mind for Stephanie Wankowicz, assistant professor of molecular physiology and biophysics. The Wankowicz lab conducts research on how entropy, a measure of the tendency toward disorder or randomness within a system, shifts when a protein binds to a drug or another protein&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6005,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions\/6005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/csb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}