Annotated protein:Neuronal acetylcholine receptor subunit alpha-7. Gene symbol: CHRNA7. Taxonomy: Rattus norvegicus (Rat). Uniprot ID: Q05941
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SynGO gene info:SynGO data @ CHRNA7
Ontology domain:Biological Process
SynGO term:presynaptic modulation of chemical synaptic transmission (GO:0099171)
Synapse type(s):hippocampus, glycinergic
Annotated paper:Zappettini S, et al. "Different presynaptic nicotinic receptor subtypes modulate in vivo and in vitro the release of glycine in the rat hippocampus" Neurochem Int. 2011 Oct;59(5):729-38 PMID:21762741
Figure(s):Fig.2, Table I
Annotation description:MLA and PHA-543613 (alpha7 specific agents) modulate the release of glycine from hippocampal synaptosomes.
Evidence tracking, Biological System:Intact tissue
Evidence tracking, Protein Targeting:Antagonist / agonist
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:2024
Dataset release (version):20231201
View annotation as GO-CAM model:Gene Ontology