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ArticleMolecular psychiatry2011

The psychiatric disease risk factors DISC1 and TNIK interact to regulate synapse composition and function.

Q Wang, E I Charych, V L Pulito, J B Lee, N M Graziane, R A Crozier, R Revilla-Sanchez, M P Kelly, A J Dunlop, H Murdoch and 14 more

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Article in Molecular psychiatry, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 95 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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95citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

95 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 146 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

24 authors at 8 institutions in 3 countries.

Q WangPfizer Neuroscience Research Unit, Princeton, NJ, USA.
E I Charych
V L Pulito
J B Lee
N M Graziane
R A Crozier
R Revilla-Sanchez
M P Kelly
A J Dunlop
H Murdoch
N Taylor
Y Xie
M Pausch
A Hayashi-Takagi
K Ishizuka
S Seshadri
B Bates
K Kariya
A Sawa
R J Weinberg
S J Moss
M D Houslay
Z Yan
N J Brandon
Pfizer (United States) · USJohns Hopkins Medicine · USUniversity at Buffalo, State University of New York · USUniversity of Glasgow · GBTufts University · USJohns Hopkins University · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · USUniversity of the Ryukyus · JP

Funding

GLUTAMATE RECEPTORS AND THALAMOCORTICAL TRANSMISSIONR01NS035527 · NINDS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI WEINBERG, RICHARD J · 1998 to 2012
$2.8M
Medical Research Council G0600765NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS035527
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Disrupted in schizophrenia 1 (DISC1), a genetic risk factor for multiple serious psychiatric diseases including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and autism, is a key regulator of multiple neuronal functions linked to both normal development and disease processes. As these diseases are thought to share a common deficit in synaptic function and architecture, we have analyzed the role of DISC1 using an approach that focuses on understanding the protein-protein interactions of DISC1 specifically at synapses. We identify the Traf2 and Nck-interacting kinase (TNIK), an emerging risk factor itself for disease, as a key synaptic partner for DISC1, and provide evidence that the DISC1-TNIK interaction regulates synaptic composition and activity by stabilizing the levels of key postsynaptic density proteins. Understanding the novel DISC1-TNIK interaction is likely to provide insights into the etiology and underlying synaptic deficits found in major psychiatric diseases.

Indexed as

AnimalsCells, CulturedCerebral CortexHippocampusMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLNerve Tissue ProteinsNeuronsPost-Synaptic DensityProtein Serine-Threonine KinasesRatsSynapsesDisc1 protein, mouseDisc1 protein, ratNerve Tissue ProteinsProtein Serine-Threonine KinasesTNIK protein, mouseTNIK protein, rat

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PMID20838393
PMCPMC3176992
OpenAlexW2168295112

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