SynGAP

The synaptic Ras-GTPase activating protein

General references synGAP

Knuesel I, Elliott A, Chen HJ, Mansuy IM & Kennedy MB (2005). A role for synGAP in regulating neuronal apoptosis. European Journal of Neuroscience 21: 611-21.

Vazquez LE, Chen HJ, Sokolova I, Knuesel I & Kennedy MB (2004). SynGAP regulates spine formation. Journal of Neuroscience 24: 8862-72.

Krapivinsky G, Medina I, Krapivinsky L, Gapon S & Clapham DE (2004). SynGAP-MUPP1-CaMKII synaptic complexes regulate p38 MAP kinase activity and NMDA receptor-dependent synaptic AMPA receptor potentiation. Neuron 43: 563-74.

Oh JS, Manzerra P & Kennedy MB (2004). Regulation of the neuron-specific Ras GTPase-activating protein, synGAP, by Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II. Journal of Biological Chemistry 279: 17980-8.

Komiyama NH, Watabe AM, Carlisle HJ, Porter K, Charlesworth P, Monti J, Strathdee DJ, O'Carroll CM, Martin SJ, Morris RG, O'Dell TJ & Grant SG (2002). SynGAP regulates ERK/MAPK signaling, synaptic plasticity, and learning in the complex with postsynaptic density 95 and NMDA receptor. Journal of Neuroscience 22: 9721-32.

Kim JH, Liao D, Lau LF & Huganir RL (1998). SynGAP: a synaptic RasGAP that associates with the PSD-95/SAP90 protein family. Neuron 20: 683-91.