Annotated protein:Ras-related protein Rab-8A (EC 3.6.5.2). Gene symbol: RAB8A. Taxonomy: Rattus norvegicus (Rat). Uniprot ID: P35280
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SynGO gene info:SynGO data @ RAB8A
Ontology domain:Cellular Component
SynGO term:synapse (GO:0045202)
Synapse type(s):brain
Annotated paper:Wilhelm BG, et al. "Composition of isolated synaptic boutons reveals the amounts of vesicle trafficking proteins" Science. 2014 May 30;344(6187):1023-8 PMID:24876496
Figure(s):Table S2
Annotation description:Quantitative mass spectrometric analyses (iBAQ) of purified synaptosomes indicate the presence of Rab8A in presynaptic terminals.

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- Data does not distinguish pre- from postsynaptic localization. 'synapse (GO:0045202)' term selected instead of 'presynapse'.
Evidence tracking, Biological System:Intact tissue
Evidence tracking, Protein Targeting:none of the above
Evidence tracking, Experiment Assay:Mass-spectrometry
Biochemical fractionation (generic)
Annotator(s):John Chua (ORCID:0000-0002-5615-1014)
Lab:Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117597, Neurobiology/Ageing Program, Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore and Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore
Additional literature:Mass spectrometric analyses of glutamatergic mouse
brain synaptosomes isolated by fluorescence
activated sorting identify the presence of Rab8A in these fractions. @ PMID:24413018
SynGO annotation ID:206
Dataset release (version):20231201
View annotation as GO-CAM model:Gene Ontology