Annotated protein:Neuronal acetylcholine receptor subunit alpha-4. Gene symbol: CHRNA4. Taxonomy: Mus musculus (Mouse). Uniprot ID: O70174
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SynGO gene info:SynGO data @ CHRNA4
Ontology domain:Biological Process
SynGO term:presynaptic modulation of chemical synaptic transmission (GO:0099171)
Synapse type(s):striatum, dopaminergic
Annotated paper:Champtiaux N, et al. "Subunit composition of functional nicotinic receptors in dopaminergic neurons investigated with knock-out mice" J Neurosci. 2003 Aug 27;23(21):7820-9 PMID:12944511
Figure(s):Fig.3
Annotation description:Fig.3: "The effect of 3 μm nicotine on DA release was reduced by half in both α4-/- and α6-/- animals (compared with α4+/+ and α6+/+ animals, respectively) and completely abolished in α4-/-α6-/- or β2-/- animals (Fig. 3A)."
Evidence tracking, Biological System:Intact tissue
Evidence tracking, Protein Targeting:Genetic transformation (eg; knockout, knockin, mutations)
Evidence tracking, Experiment Assay:Biochemical fractionation (generic)
radioisotope assay evidence
Annotator(s):Pim van Nierop (ORCID:0000-0003-0593-3443)
Guus Smit (ORCID:0000-0002-2286-1587)
Matthijs Verhage (ORCID:0000-0002-2514-0216)
Lab:Department of Functional Genomics, Department of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
SynGO annotation ID:2021
Dataset release (version):20231201
View annotation as GO-CAM model:Gene Ontology