| 2016 |
ATP13A2 depletion negatively regulates SYT11 at both transcriptional and post-translational levels: decreased SYT11 transcription is controlled by MYCBP2-induced ubiquitination of TSC2, leading to mTORC1 activation and decreased TFEB-mediated transcription of SYT11, while increased protein turnover is regulated by SYT11 ubiquitination and degradation. Decreased SYT11 levels in turn induce lysosomal dysfunction and impaired degradation of autophagosomes. |
Genetic knockdown, epistasis analysis, transcriptional reporter assays, ubiquitination assays, lysosomal function assays |
Nature communications |
High |
27278822
|
| 2018 |
Synaptotagmin-11 is a physiological substrate of parkin (E3 ubiquitin ligase). Parkin deficiency leads to synaptotagmin-11 accumulation. Unilateral overexpression of full-length (but not C2B-truncated) synaptotagmin-11 in the substantia nigra pars compacta impairs striatal dopamine release by inhibiting endocytosis and vesicle pool replenishment, causing late-onset dopaminergic neuron degeneration and progressive motor abnormalities. SYT11 knockdown or knockout in dopaminergic neurons reversed parkin-deficiency-induced PD-like neurotoxicity. |
In vivo overexpression (viral vector), knockout mice, dopamine release measurements, electron microscopy, genetic rescue experiments |
Nature communications |
High |
29311685
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| 2019 |
In neurons, Syt11 resides on abundant vesicles resembling trafficking endosomes (distinct from synaptic vesicles) that recycle via the plasma membrane in an activity-dependent manner with slow, desynchronized exocytosis. Constitutive Syt11 knockout mice die shortly after birth. Conditional knockout of Syt11 in excitatory forebrain neurons impairs long-term synaptic potentiation and memory without affecting fast neurotransmitter or peptide secretion. |
Conditional and constitutive knockout mice, live-cell imaging, electrophysiology, memory behavioral assays, vesicle fractionation |
Genes & development |
High |
30808661
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| 2017 |
Syt11 inhibits cytokine secretion and phagocytosis in microglia. Syt11 knockdown increases IL-6, TNF-α, IL-1β, and iNOS synthesis and activates NF-κB. Syt11 specifically regulates conventional secretion of IL-6 and TNF-α. Syt11 localizes to the trans-Golgi network and recycling endosomes and is recruited to phagosomes. Syt11 deficiency enhances phagocytosis including that of α-synuclein fibrils. All KD phenotypes were rescued by shRNA-resistant Syt11. |
shRNA knockdown in primary microglia, overexpression rescue, ELISA, NF-κB reporter, immunofluorescence/confocal microscopy, phagocytosis assay |
Glia |
High |
28686317
|
| 2021 |
Syt11 suppresses spontaneous (miniature) excitatory neurotransmission. Syt11-KO hippocampal neurons show increased mEPSC frequency; Syt11 overexpression decreases mEPSC frequency without affecting amplitude, indicating presynaptic regulation. Syt11 directly interacts with the non-canonical SNARE protein vti1a (C2A domain of Syt11 binds vti1a with high affinity), and vti1a knockdown reverses the Syt11-KO phenotype, identifying vti1a as the primary target. |
Knockout and overexpression in hippocampal neurons, electrophysiology (mEPSC recording), GST pull-down, co-immunoprecipitation, affinity purification, domain deletion analysis |
Journal of neurochemistry |
High |
34599505
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| 2023 |
Syt11 is palmitoylated at Cys39 and Cys40 (adjacent to its transmembrane domain) in mouse and human brain tissue and cultured neurons. Palmitoylation localizes Syt11 to digitonin-insoluble intracellular membranes and protects it from endolysosomal degradation. Palmitoylated Syt11 increases its own abundance and enhances α-synuclein binding to intracellular membranes, decreasing the physiologic tetrameric form and increasing the aggregation-prone monomeric form. A palmitoylation-deficient mutant failed to replicate these effects. |
Acyl-resin assisted capture (acyl-RAC), site-directed mutagenesis, subcellular fractionation (digitonin), pulse-chase protein stability assays, α-synuclein biochemical fractionation, neuronal overexpression |
Science signaling |
High |
36787382
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| 2023 |
Syt11 directly binds endophilin A1 (EndoA1) via a Ca2+-independent interaction (Syt11 C2B domain, aa 314-336 with EndoA1 N-terminus) and inhibits synaptic vesicle endocytosis through EndoA1. Syt11 KO accelerates SV endocytosis and causes abnormal membrane partitioning of synaptic proteins. EndoA1 knockdown reverses the Syt11-KO phenotype. A peptide from Syt11 C2B blocked the interaction in vitro and in vivo and inhibited SV endocytosis at the calyx of Held. |
Knockout mice, electrophysiology (capacitance, calyx of Held), Co-IP, in vitro peptide competition assays, EndoA1 knockdown rescue, live imaging |
The Journal of neuroscience |
High |
37474308
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| 2024 |
Syt11 binds both the auxiliary GABAB receptor subunit KCTD16 and Cav2.2 Ca2+ channels, recruiting them to post-Golgi vesicles to facilitate assembly of GBR/Cav2.2 signaling complexes. Syt11 also stabilizes GBRs and Cav2.2 at the neuronal plasma membrane by inhibiting constitutive internalization. Syt11 KO neurons show deficits in presynaptic GBRs and Cav2.2 channels, reduced neurotransmitter release, and decreased GBR-mediated presynaptic inhibition. |
Co-immunoprecipitation, co-localization (confocal), knockout mouse neurons, electrophysiology (neurotransmitter release, presynaptic inhibition), internalization assays |
EMBO reports |
High |
38698221
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| 2023 |
In microglia in vivo, Syt11 inhibits microglial activation, cytokine secretion (IL-6, TNF-α, IL-1β, iNOS), and phagocytosis of α-synuclein fibrils. Syt11 directly binds vti1a and vti1b via its linker domain. A competitive peptide from the Syt11 linker domain inhibited vti1a/vti1b interaction in vitro and in cells and induced cytokine hypersecretion in WT microglia upon LPS treatment, phenocopying Syt11 knockdown. |
Inducible microglia-specific conditional knockout (cKO) mice, LPS inflammation model, α-synuclein fibril injection model, Co-IP/pull-down, competitive peptide inhibition, cytokine mRNA and protein measurement |
Journal of neurochemistry |
High |
37924268
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| 2022 |
SYT11 functions as a scaffold protein, binding both MKK7 and JNK1 to promote JNK1 phosphorylation, leading to cJun activation and downstream EMT-related gene expression (ANGPTL2, THBS4, Vimentin, JAM3) in gastric cancer. SYT11 shRNA reduced spheroid formation, tumor growth, and liver metastasis; SYT11-ASO showed antitumor activity in xenograft models. |
Phospho-kinase array, co-immunoprecipitation, western blot, shRNA knockdown, xenograft mouse model, liver metastasis assay |
Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research |
Medium |
35768842
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| 2022 |
Impad1 modulates Golgi apparatus morphology and vesicular trafficking through its interaction with Syt11. Inhibiting either Impad1 or Syt11 disrupts the cancer cell secretome and extracellular matrix composition, reversing the invasive/metastatic phenotype of lung cancer cells. |
High-throughput in vitro/in vivo screens, co-immunoprecipitation/interaction studies, Golgi morphology imaging, secretome analysis, invasion/metastasis assays |
Cell reports |
Medium |
36170810
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| 2019 |
Syt11 stabilizes caveolar structures on the astrocyte cell surface and regulates caveolae-mediated endocytosis and caveolar responses to mechanical (hypoosmotic) stimuli. Syt11 KO accelerated caveolae-mediated endocytosis and markedly reduced caveolar structures on the cell surface. Syt11 directly interacts with cavin1 and EHD2 (but not caveolin-1) and regulates their turnover, providing a mechanoprotective role. |
Knockout astrocytes, live imaging, electron microscopy, Co-IP/pull-down, endocytosis assays, hypoosmotic stimulation, proteasome inhibitor experiments |
FASEB journal |
Medium |
31908017
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| 2014 |
Synaptotagmin-11 interacts with components of the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) in pancreatic β-cells: the C2A domain interacts with the Q-SNARE Vti1a, while the C2B domain interacts with SND1, Ago2, and FMRP. Binding to SND1 was direct, via SND1's N-terminal tandem repeats. |
Co-immunoprecipitation, pull-down, domain deletion constructs (C2A, C2B), MS identification of binding partners |
FEBS letters |
Medium |
24882364
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| 2024 |
Syt11 deficiency specifically in dopamine neurons during early adolescence (but not in adults) leads to persistent dopamine over-transmission and schizophrenia-like behaviors (social deficits, etc.) in mice. D2R-targeting interventions (presynaptic or postsynaptic) in the mPFC showed acute and long-lasting therapeutic effects on social deficits. |
Conditional knockout (dopamine neuron-specific, adolescent vs. adult), behavioral assays, dopamine transmission measurements, pharmacological rescue with D2R drugs |
Nature communications |
Medium |
39632880
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| 2020 |
Syt11 is a short-lived protein (half-life ~1.49 h in neurons) primarily degraded by the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway (UPP). Degradation is accelerated under sustained neuronal activity in a parkin-dependent manner. In astrocytes, Syt11 has a faster turnover (half-life ~0.58 h), partially UPP-dependent, but parkin-independent even under hypoosmotic mechanical stress. |
Cycloheximide chase assay, proteasome inhibitor (MG132), neuronal activity stimulation, parkin overexpression/knockdown, half-life measurements in neurons and astrocytes |
Neuroscience letters |
Medium |
32976921
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| 2007 |
The number of 33-bp repeats in the Syt11 promoter region, which contain an Sp1 binding site, affects Syt11 transcriptional activity. A SNP in the Syt11 5'UTR region, where YY1 can bind, also affects Syt11 transcriptional activity. |
Transcriptional reporter (luciferase) assays, gel mobility shift assays (EMSA), polymorphism analysis in schizophrenia patients |
American journal of medical genetics. Part B |
Medium |
17192956
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| 2005 |
Non-CpG methylation in the Syt11 promoter reduces transcriptional activity: methylated cytosines in the coding (minus) strand of the promoter reduce Sp family protein binding (demonstrated by gel mobility shift assay) and decrease reporter gene expression. |
Gel mobility shift assay (EMSA), artificially methylated promoter constructs, transient transcription reporter assays |
Gene |
Medium |
15777718
|
| 2012 |
Syt11 in rat hippocampal neurons is targeted to both dendrite and axon compartments and forms higher molecular weight complexes via its transmembrane domain. Immunogold electron microscopy showed Syt11 predominantly in presynaptic neurotransmitter vesicles and plasma membrane, with rare postsynaptic localization. Both neuroligin-1 and neuroligin-2 recruit Syt11 in neuron co-culture, associating it with excitatory and inhibitory presynapses respectively. |
Immunocytochemistry, immunogold electron microscopy, co-culture with neuroligins, SDS-PAGE (higher MW complex detection), subcellular fractionation |
Neuroscience |
Medium |
22960622
|
| 2022 |
In pancreatic β-cells (INS-1 832/13), Syt11 co-localizes with insulin, indicating localization in insulin granules. Knockdown of Syt11 resulted in increased basal and glucose-induced insulin secretion without changes in exocytosis or voltage-gated Ca2+ currents, suggesting a role in suppressing insulin release upstream of final exocytotic steps. |
siRNA knockdown, ELISA (insulin secretion), patch-clamp electrophysiology, confocal microscopy co-localization |
Acta physiologica |
Medium |
35753051
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| 2025 |
VHL (an E3 ubiquitin ligase) physically binds SYT11 and promotes its proteasome-dependent degradation without affecting SYT11 mRNA. VHL overexpression decreases SYT11 protein half-life; MG132 (proteasome inhibitor) reverses SYT11 degradation by VHL. VHL knockdown reduces SYT11 ubiquitination. VHL-mediated SYT11 degradation leads to downregulation of SPINK1 and suppression of gastric cancer cell growth and invasion. |
Immunoprecipitation, overexpression/knockdown, cycloheximide chase, MG132 proteasome inhibitor, transcriptome sequencing, invasion/growth assays |
Journal of cellular and molecular medicine |
Medium |
40576306
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| 2025 |
Compensatory upregulation of Syt11 in parkin knockout mice conceals PD-associated phenotypes: Syt11 is upregulated in parkin KO mice during suckling stage and in adult parkin knockdown (KD) mice. Parkin KD in adult SNpc impairs dopamine release and causes motor deficits (unlike parkin KO). Syt11 overexpression alone induces PD-like motor and non-motor impairments and impairs dopamine release and reuptake, establishing Syt11 accumulation as mechanistically sufficient for parkin-associated PD pathogenesis. |
Parkin KO and KD mouse models (viral vector KD in adult SNpc), dopamine release measurements, behavioral assays, Syt11 overexpression, western blot |
Cell communication and signaling |
Medium |
39901263
|