Annotated protein:Phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate 3-phosphatase and dual-specificity protein phosphatase PTEN (EC 3.1.3.16) (EC 3.1.3.48) (EC 3.1.3.67) (Phosphatase and tensin homolog). Gene symbol: PTEN. Taxonomy: Rattus norvegicus (Rat). Uniprot ID: O54857
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SynGO gene info:SynGO data @ PTEN
Ontology domain:Cellular Component
SynGO term:postsynaptic cytosol (GO:0099524)
Synapse type(s):hippocampus
Annotated paper:Knafo S, et al. "PTEN recruitment controls synaptic and cognitive function in Alzheimer's models" Nat Neurosci. 2016 Mar;19(3):443-53 PMID:26780512
Figure(s):Fig. 6
Annotation description:Neurons expressing the WT EGFP-PTEN show localization in dendritic spines.

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- Importantly, over-expressed EGFP-PTEN shows stimulus-dependent translocation into spines. This shows this is not an over-expression artifact.
Evidence tracking, Biological System:Cultured neurons
Evidence tracking, Protein Targeting:Over-expression
Evidence tracking, Experiment Assay:Confocal
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:Upon activation of the NMDA-R, PTEN translocates from the post-synaptic cytosol into the PSD, as shown by immuno-EM (Fig. 4). @ PMID:20628354
SynGO annotation ID:497
Dataset release (version):20231201
View annotation as GO-CAM model:Gene Ontology