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Microglial Rac1 is essential for experience-dependent brain plasticity and cognitive performance

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.

INSTRUMENT(S): Q Exactive Plus

ORGANISM(S): Mus Musculus (mouse)

TISSUE(S): Brain

SUBMITTER: Tiago Almeida

LAB HEAD: João Bettencourt Relvas

PROVIDER: PXD045719 | Pride | 2023-10-23

REPOSITORIES: Pride

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