Annotated protein: | Neurexin-1 (Neurexin I-alpha) (Neurexin-1-alpha). Gene symbol: NRXN1. Taxonomy: Mus musculus (Mouse). Uniprot ID: Q9CS84 |
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SynGO gene info: | SynGO data @ NRXN1 |
Ontology domain: | Biological Process |
SynGO term: | synapse adhesion between pre- and post-synapse (GO:0099560) |
Synapse type(s): | hippocampus |
Annotated paper: | Dean C, et al. "Neurexin mediates the assembly of presynaptic terminals" Nat Neurosci. 2003 Jul;6(7):708-16 PMID:12796785 |
Figure(s): | Fig.2, 6 |
Annotation description: | Rationale: NLGN1; neuroligin 1 is a postsynaptic protein. Neurexin-1beta is a presynaptic protein (Fig.4, 6, 7). These proteins are shown to mediate cell-cell adhesion (Fig.2). Together this means that these proteins are involved in 'synapse adhesion between pre- and post-synapse (GO:0099560)'. The relevance of this interaction is shown in the ability of these two protein to be able to induce pre- and postsynaptic differentiation (Fig.6, 7 and ticket #2745). Fig.2: "Inactive neuroligin mutants are impaired in neuroligin/neurexin mediated cell adhesion" Fig.6: "Induction of neurexin clustering and presynaptic differentiation by purified neuroligin." |
Evidence tracking, Biological System: | Non-neuronal tissue |
Evidence tracking, Protein Targeting: | Over-expression |
Evidence tracking, Experiment Assay: | Confocal |
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 |
Additional literature: | Live cell visualization of transsynaptic binding between NLGN1; neuroligin 1 and neurexin 1. @ PMID:25378172 |
SynGO annotation ID: | 2747 |
Dataset release (version): | 20231201 |
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