Annotated protein:Double-stranded RNA-binding protein Staufen homolog 1. Gene symbol: STAU1. Taxonomy: Mus musculus (Mouse). Uniprot ID: Q9Z108
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SynGO gene info:SynGO data @ STAU1
Ontology domain:Biological Process
SynGO term:dendritic transport of messenger ribonucleoprotein complex (GO:0098963)
Synapse type(s):hippocampus
Annotated paper:Kanai Y, et al. "Kinesin transports RNA: isolation and characterization of an RNA-transporting granule" Neuron. 2004 Aug 19;43(4):513-25 PMID:15312650
Figure(s):Fig.1, Fig. 4, Fig.8
Annotation description:2/10/2017 Pim
- shRNA KD of staufen (Fig.8) negatively affects Kinesin5-dependent dendritic transport of mRNA granules that contain transcripts for synapse marker proteins such as CAMKII (Fig.1/5/8) and Arc (Fig.1).

8/2/2018 Pim
- Accession Q9Z108 was determined after blast analysis of shRNA sequence 5'-(AA)GGUUGGAGGUAAAUGGAAG-3'.
Evidence tracking, Biological System:Intact tissue
Cultured neurons
Evidence tracking, Protein Targeting:RNAi / shRNA
Antibody (detection)
Evidence tracking, Experiment Assay:Confocal
IP + WB/MSMS
Annotator(s):Alexandros Kanellopoulos (ORCID:0000-0002-2094-7491)
Vittoria Mariano (ORCID:0000-0002-9848-0262)
Achsel Tilmann (ORCID:0000-0002-1190-4481)
Claudia Bagni (ORCID:0000-0002-4419-210X)
Lab:Department of Fundamental Neurosciences, University of Lausanne, CH-1006 Lausanne, Switzerland; Dept Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy
Additional literature:Puralpha is required for Map2 Localization to Dendrites in the Developing Mouse Hippocampus (Fig. 2), which might indicate problems in the dendritic transport. @ PMID:16511857
SynGO annotation ID:2435
Dataset release (version):20231201
View annotation as GO-CAM model:Gene Ontology