ArticleTranslational psychiatry2015
Deletion of Rapgef6, a candidate schizophrenia susceptibility gene, disrupts amygdala function in mice.
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- A PDZ-RapGEF promotes synaptic development in Caenorhabditis elegans through a Rap/Rac signaling pathway.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2025Article
- Interactions between Ras and Rap signaling pathways during neurodevelopment in health and disease.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2024Review
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- Cocaine-Dependent Acquisition of Locomotor Sensitization and Conditioned Place Preference Requires D1 Dopaminergic Signaling through a Cyclic AMP, NCS-Rapgef2, ERK, and Egr-1/Zif268 Pathway.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
- Rho GTPases in the Amygdala-A Switch for Fears?Cells · 2020Review
- Novel Polymorphisms inGenes · 2019Article
- A Cross-Species Systems Genetics Analysis Links APBB1IP as a Candidate for Schizophrenia and Prepulse Inhibition.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2019Article
- Comprehensive behavioral analysis of mice deficient in Rapgef2 and Rapgef6, a subfamily of guanine nucleotide exchange factors for Rap small GTPases possessing the Ras/Rap-associating domain.Molecular brain · 2018Article
- Analysis of Gene Expression Variance in Schizophrenia Using Structural Equation Modeling.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2018Article
- Alterations in the expression of a neurodevelopmental gene exert long-lasting effects on cognitive-emotional phenotypes and functional brain networks: translational evidence from the stress-resilient Ahi1 knockout mouse.Molecular psychiatry · 2017Article
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Abstract
In human genetic studies of schizophrenia, we uncovered copy-number variants in RAPGEF6 and RAPGEF2 genes. To discern the effects of RAPGEF6 deletion in humans, we investigated the behavior and neural functions of a mouse lacking Rapgef6. Rapgef6 deletion resulted in impaired amygdala function measured as reduced fear conditioning and anxiolysis. Hippocampal-dependent spatial memory and prefrontal cortex-dependent working memory tasks were intact. Neural activation measured by cFOS phosphorylation demonstrated a reduction in hippocampal and amygdala activation after fear conditioning, while neural morphology assessment uncovered reduced spine density and primary dendrite number in pyramidal neurons of the CA3 hippocampal region of knockout mice. Electrophysiological analysis showed enhanced long-term potentiation at cortico-amygdala synapses. Rapgef6 deletion mice were most impaired in hippocampal and amygdalar function, brain regions implicated in schizophrenia pathophysiology. The results provide a deeper understanding of the role of the amygdala in schizophrenia and suggest that RAPGEF6 may be a novel therapeutic target in schizophrenia.
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