Annotated protein:Actin, cytoplasmic 1 (Beta-actin) (EC 3.6.4.-) [Cleaved into: Actin, cytoplasmic 1, N-terminally processed]. Gene symbol: ACTB. Taxonomy: Mus musculus (Mouse). Uniprot ID: P60710
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SynGO gene info:SynGO data @ ACTB
Ontology domain:Biological Process
SynGO term:regulation of synaptic vesicle endocytosis (GO:1900242)
Synapse type(s):hippocampus
Calyx of Held
Schaffer collateral synapse (CA3->CA1)
Annotated paper:Wu XS, et al. "Actin Is Crucial for All Kinetically Distinguishable Forms of Endocytosis at Synapses" Neuron. 2016 Dec 7;92(5):1020-1035 PMID:27840001
Figure(s):Fig 2, 6, and 7
Annotation description:Whole cell patch recordings of P7-P10 calyxes at 22-24 oC were given a 20 ms depolarization from -80 mV to +10 mV. The initial rate of decay of the capacitance change was significantly slower (~33% of control) in the Actin, beta KO suggesting a slower rate of endocytosis following vesicle fusion (Fig 2. A-C). Similar results were observed when the stimulus was changed to a 20 action potential equivalent stimulus (Fig. 2 D-F), performed at 34-37 oC (Fig. 2 G) and in older mice (P13-P14) (Fig. 2 H).

Hippocampal neurons were cultured from the Actb LoxP/LoxP mice transfected with Synaptophysin-pHluorin2X (SypH) with or without a Cre containing plasmid (Fig. 6 A and D). SypH can be used to study vesicle recycling as it is non-fluorescent in relatively low pH environment of vesicles but is fluorescent in the higher pH extracellular environment. Upon stimulation the decay of fluorescence was significantly slower than the control (Fig. 6 E-G). This fluorescence was quenchable by a low pH solution applied externally indicating it was not a deficit in vesicle reacidification, but instead suggesting that the vesicles had not been endocytosed (Fig. 6H). This effect was rescued by transfecting Actb in the KO cultures (Fig 7 A,B) but was not rescued by a version of Actb that could not polymerize (Fig 7 E,F). Taken together this data suggests that Actin, beta is important for endocytosis.

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Evidence tracking, Biological System:Intact tissue
Cultured neurons
Evidence tracking, Protein Targeting:Genetic transformation (eg; knockout, knockin, mutations)
Evidence tracking, Experiment Assay:Whole-cell patch clamp
Optical physiology
Annotator(s):Ryan J. Farrell (ORCID:0000-0003-4022-8707)
Ghazaleh Ashrafi (ORCID:0000-0001-7480-0826)
Camila Pulido (ORCID:0000-0002-5648-066X)
Jaime de Juan-Sanz (ORCID:0000-0002-1212-5623)
Timothy Ryan (ORCID:0000-0003-2533-9548)
Lab:Department of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
SynGO annotation ID:409
Dataset release (version):20231201
View annotation as GO-CAM model:Gene Ontology