Annotated protein:Heat shock cognate 71 kDa protein (EC 3.6.4.10) (Heat shock 70 kDa protein 8). Gene symbol: HSPA8. Taxonomy: Rattus norvegicus (Rat). Uniprot ID: P63018
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SynGO gene info:SynGO data @ HSPA8
Ontology domain:Biological Process
SynGO term:maintenance of postsynaptic specialization structure (GO:0098880)
Synapse type(s):spinal cord, glycinergic
Annotated paper:Machado P, et al. "Heat shock cognate protein 70 regulates gephyrin clustering" J Neurosci. 2011 Jan 5;31(1):3-14 PMID:21209184
Figure(s):Fig.6, 7
Annotation description:Fig.6: "Overexpression of Hsc70 decreases gephyrin clustering at synapses"
- "We found that overexpressed VeHsc70 significantly decreased the intensity of gephyrin clusters compared with control neurons transfected with EGFP "

Fig.7: "Hsc70 inhibition induces gephyrin clustering at synapses"
- "CA treatment increased the fluorescence intensity of gephyrin clusters by 27 ± 5% compared with that measured in parallel control experiments"
Evidence tracking, Biological System:Cultured neurons
Evidence tracking, Protein Targeting:Over-expression
Antagonist / agonist
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
SynGO annotation ID:2912
Dataset release (version):20231201
View annotation as GO-CAM model:Gene Ontology