TY - JOUR
T1 - Nerve growth factor induces a gene homologous to the glucocorticoid receptor gene
AU - Milbrandt, Jeffrey
N1 - Funding Information:
I thank T. Fahrner for excellent technical assistance and Drs. C. Brodeur, E. Johnson, and M. Thomas for a critical appraisal of the manuscript. I thank Dr. Kazuhiko Umesono for pointing out a mismatch in the sequence alignment. This work was supported by grant RG1779-A from the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation and National Institutes of Health grant NS01018.
PY - 1988/5
Y1 - 1988/5
N2 - Nerve growth factor (NGF) is required for the development and survival of sympathetic and neural crest-derived sensory neurons. The mechanism of action of NGF has been extensively studied in the NGF responsive rat pheochromocytoma cell line, PC12. When treated with NGF, PC12 cells initiate neurite outgrowth and differentiate into cells with a neuronal phenotype. This process is prevented by RNA synthesis inhibitors. NGFI-B is a gene, identified by differential hybridization, that is rapidly, but transiently induced in PC12 cells by NGF The nucleotide sequence of the NGFI-B gene was determined, and it encodes a 61 kd protein with strong homologies to members of the glucocorticoid receptor gene family. The two regions of homology between NGFI-B and this family of ligand-dependent transcriptional activators are the region corresponding to the DNA-binding domain and the region comprising the ligand-binding domain near the COOH-terminus. NGFI-B, as a possible ligand-dependent transcriptional activator induced by NGF, may play a role in initiating NGFinduced differentiation.
AB - Nerve growth factor (NGF) is required for the development and survival of sympathetic and neural crest-derived sensory neurons. The mechanism of action of NGF has been extensively studied in the NGF responsive rat pheochromocytoma cell line, PC12. When treated with NGF, PC12 cells initiate neurite outgrowth and differentiate into cells with a neuronal phenotype. This process is prevented by RNA synthesis inhibitors. NGFI-B is a gene, identified by differential hybridization, that is rapidly, but transiently induced in PC12 cells by NGF The nucleotide sequence of the NGFI-B gene was determined, and it encodes a 61 kd protein with strong homologies to members of the glucocorticoid receptor gene family. The two regions of homology between NGFI-B and this family of ligand-dependent transcriptional activators are the region corresponding to the DNA-binding domain and the region comprising the ligand-binding domain near the COOH-terminus. NGFI-B, as a possible ligand-dependent transcriptional activator induced by NGF, may play a role in initiating NGFinduced differentiation.
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U2 - 10.1016/0896-6273(88)90138-9
DO - 10.1016/0896-6273(88)90138-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 3272167
AN - SCOPUS:0024002468
SN - 0896-6273
VL - 1
SP - 183
EP - 188
JO - Neuron
JF - Neuron
IS - 3
ER -