Microglial Rac1 is essential for experience-dependent brain plasticity and cognitive performance
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ABSTRACT: Here, we used conditional cell-specific gene targeting in mice with multi-omics approaches, and demonstrated that the RhoGTPase Rac1 was an essential requirement for the microglia to sense and interpret the brain microenvironment, and for crucial microglia-synapse crosstalk driving experience-dependent plasticity. Phosphoproteomics profiling detected a large modulation of RhoGTPase signaling, predominantly of Rac1, in microglia of mice exposed to an environmental enrichment protocol. Ablation of microglial Rac1 affected pathways involved in microglia-synapse communication, disrupted experience-dependent synaptic remodeling, and blocked the gains in learning, memory and sociability induced by environmental enrichment.
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ORGANISM(S):  Mus Musculus (mouse) 
TISSUE(S):  Brain 
SUBMITTER:  Tiago Almeida
Tiago Almeida   
LAB HEAD:  João Bettencourt Relvas
PROVIDER: PXD045719 | Pride | 2023-10-23 
REPOSITORIES:  Pride
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