Annotated protein:Spectrin beta chain, erythrocytic (Beta-I spectrin). Gene symbol: SPTB. Taxonomy: Homo sapiens (Human). Uniprot ID: P11277
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SynGO gene info:SynGO data @ SPTB
Ontology domain:Biological Process
SynGO term:modification of postsynaptic actin cytoskeleton (GO:0098885)
Synapse type(s):hippocampus, glutamatergic
Annotated paper:Nestor MW, et al. "The actin binding domain of betaI-spectrin regulates the morphological and functional dynamics of dendritic spines" PLoS One. 2011 Jan 31;6(1):e16197 PMID:21297961
Figure(s):Fig.3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Annotation description:Fig.2: "The ABD of βI-spectrin specifically enlarges dendritic spine heads"

Fig.3: "The ABD of βI-spectrin prevents actin depolymerization"

Fig.4: "The ABD of βI-spectrin prevents acute actin depolymerization"

Fig.5: "The ABD of βI-spectrin decreases the morphological plasticity of dendritic spines"

Fig.6: "Expression of the ABD of βI-spectrin increases the size of the PSD"

Fig.7: "The ABD of βI-spectrin enhances single spine AMPAR-mediated synaptic responses"
Evidence tracking, Biological System:Intact tissue
Evidence tracking, Protein Targeting:Over-expression
Antibody (detection)
Evidence tracking, Experiment Assay:Confocal
Whole-cell patch clamp
Annotator(s):Rita Reig-Viader (ORCID:0000-0002-6893-6177)
Àlex Bayés (ORCID:0000-0002-5265-6306)
Lab:Molecular Physiology of the Synapse Laboratory, Biomedical Research Institute Sant Pau, 08025 Barcelona, Spain and and Universitat Autnoma de Cerdanyola del Valls, Spain Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra
SynGO annotation ID:3085
Dataset release (version):20231201
View annotation as GO-CAM model:Gene Ontology