{"id":200766,"date":"2024-12-04T11:24:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T17:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/autism-study-reveals-pivotal-role-of-neuronal-protein-cpeb4-condensates"},"modified":"2024-12-04T11:24:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T17:24:43","slug":"autism-study-reveals-pivotal-role-of-neuronal-protein-cpeb4-condensates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/autism-study-reveals-pivotal-role-of-neuronal-protein-cpeb4-condensates","title":{"rendered":"Autism study reveals pivotal role of neuronal protein CPEB4 condensates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/autism-study-reveals-pivotal-role-of-neuronal-protein-cpeb4-condensates2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by difficulties in communication and social behavior. Approximately 20% of cases are linked to a specific genetic mutation, but the origin of the remaining 80%, known as idiopathic autism, remains a mystery.<\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists led by Drs. Ra\u00fal M\u00e9ndez and Xavier Salvatella at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) has identified a <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/molecular+mechanism\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">molecular mechanism<\/a> that explains why certain alternations of the neuronal protein CPEB4 are associated with idiopathic autism.<\/p>\n<p>The study is based on previous work published in 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018-08-discovery-key-protein-involved-autism.html\">that identified CPEB4 as a key protein<\/a> in the regulation of neuronal proteins related to autism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by difficulties in communication and social behavior. Approximately 20% of cases are linked to a specific genetic mutation, but the origin of the remaining 80%, known as idiopathic autism, remains a mystery. A team of scientists led by Drs. Ra\u00fal M\u00e9ndez and Xavier Salvatella at the Institute for Research [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200766","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}