{"id":151019,"date":"2022-11-24T14:23:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T20:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/a-key-enzyme-in-brain-function-shuts-off-randomly-study-reveals"},"modified":"2022-11-24T14:23:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T20:23:48","slug":"a-key-enzyme-in-brain-function-shuts-off-randomly-study-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/a-key-enzyme-in-brain-function-shuts-off-randomly-study-reveals","title":{"rendered":"A key enzyme in brain function shuts off randomly, study reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-key-enzyme-in-brain-function-shuts-off-randomly-study-reveals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The finding could have implications on drug development beyond neuroscience.<\/p>\n<p>A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Copenhagen has found that V-ATPase, an enzyme thought to be a key component of brain function, switches off randomly, even for hours at a time. This discovery has the potential to change our understanding of how our brain functions, according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p>V-ATPase is an enzyme that can break down ATP molecules, the cell\u2019s energy currency, as they pump protons across cellular membranes.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Evgenil Kovalev\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>Simply put, the enzyme is responsible for providing energy to fill up the membrane bladders between neighboring neurons with chemicals that are needed to transfer a message between them. Therefore, the enzyme is quite crucial for neuronal communication, or that\u2019s what researchers have thought so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The finding could have implications on drug development beyond neuroscience. A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Copenhagen has found that V-ATPase, an enzyme thought to be a key component of brain function, switches off randomly, even for hours at a time. This discovery has the potential to change our understanding of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151019","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}