| Annotated protein: | Engulfment and cell motility 1 splice 1 variant. Gene symbol: ELMO1. Taxonomy: Rattus norvegicus (Rat). Uniprot ID: G8CYZ7 |
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| SynGO gene info: | SynGO data @ ELMO1 |
| Ontology domain: | Biological Process |
| SynGO term: | regulation of postsynapse assembly (GO:0150052) |
| Synapse type(s): | hippocampus, glutamatergic |
| Annotated paper: | Kim JY, et al. "The RhoG/ELMO1/Dock180 signaling module is required for spine morphogenesis in hippocampal neurons" J Biol Chem. 2011 Oct 28;286(43):37615-24 PMID:21900250 |
| Figure(s): | Figure 2, 3 |
| Annotation description: | Figure 2a, 3e: immunofluorescence imaging of hippocampal neurons stained for endogenous ELMO1 and PSD95 (DLG4) showed partial co-localization. Overexpressed GFP-ELMO1 localized to dendrites and spines apposed to presynaptic terminals labeled by anti-SV2. Figure 2c-d, 3: confocal imaging showed that ELMO1 shRNA knockdown reduced dendritic spine density in hippocampal neurons and overexpression of the ELMO1 C-terminus promoted spine morphogenesis. Figure 4: ELMO and Dock180 (DOCK1) form a complex in hippocampal neurons and function through activating Rac1. Figure 5-7: RhoG is required for spine formation, its activation leads to increased spine head size and functions through the ELMO1/Dock180/Rac pathway. |
| Evidence tracking, Biological System: | Cultured neurons |
| Evidence tracking, Protein Targeting: | Over-expression Antibody (detection) RNAi / shRNA |
| Evidence tracking, Experiment Assay: | Confocal |
| Annotator(s): | Frank Koopmans (ORCID:0000-0002-4973-5732) 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: | 5206 |
| Dataset release (version): | 20231201 |
| View annotation as GO-CAM model: |  |