“…Dopamine is provided by M1-projecting mesencephalic neurons and supports learning-related plasticity by inducing learning-relevant genes, enhancing cortical excitability, strengthening motor representations and supporting the formation of long-term potentiation (LTP, for review see . With respect to the interaction analysis, DA also seems also to influence synapse formation by regulating actin fibre cross-linking via Actn2 (Hodges, Vilchez, Asmussen, Whitmore, and Horwitz, 2014) and the formation of the postsynaptic complex via Pde10a and Ppp2r2a (Russwurm, Koesling, and Russwurm, 2015). Within the smaller cluster, proteins are enriched that facilitate synapse-formation by regulation of fatty-acid uptake (Lpl; (Xian, Liu, Yu, Wang, Miao, Zhang, Yu, Ross, Karasinska, Hayden, Liu, and Chui, 2009), promoting actin filament assembly (Dgkb; (Kobayashi, Hozumi, Ito, Hosoya, Kondo, and Goto, 2007) and spinogenesis (Sdc2; (Hu and Hsueh, 2014).…”