{"id":130587,"date":"2021-11-14T09:24:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T17:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/scientists-may-have-unlocked-function-of-mysterious-structure-found-on-neurons-in-the-brain"},"modified":"2021-11-14T09:24:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T17:24:19","slug":"scientists-may-have-unlocked-function-of-mysterious-structure-found-on-neurons-in-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/scientists-may-have-unlocked-function-of-mysterious-structure-found-on-neurons-in-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Scientists May Have Unlocked Function of Mysterious Structure Found on Neurons in the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7UaZaVyjFvs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Unusual clusters on neurons are calcium-signaling \u201chotspots\u201d that activate gene transcription, allowing neurons to produce crucial proteins.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For 30 years, mysterious clusters of proteins found on the cell body of neurons in the hippocampus, a part of the brain, both intrigued and baffled James Trimmer.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the distinguished professor of physiology and membrane biology at the UC Davis School of Medicine may finally have an answer. In a new study published in <em>PNAS<\/em>, Trimmer and his colleagues reveal these protein clusters are calcium signaling \u201chotspots\u201d in the neuron that play a crucial role in activating gene transcription.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unusual clusters on neurons are calcium-signaling \u201chotspots\u201d that activate gene transcription, allowing neurons to produce crucial proteins. For 30 years, mysterious clusters of proteins found on the cell body of neurons in the hippocampus, a part of the brain, both intrigued and baffled James Trimmer. Now, the distinguished professor of physiology and membrane biology at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}