NERVE GROWTH FACTOR-INDUCED DIFFERENTIATION IN PC-12 CELLS IS BLOCKED BY FOS ONCOGENE
- 1 October 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 4 (10) , 1193-1199
Abstract
Rat pheochromocytoma (PC-12) cells respond to nerve growth factor (NGF) by cessation of cell division and by expression of several properties resembling those of differentiated sympathetic neurons. Within minutes after addition, NGF rapidly stimulates transient expression of c-fos. To investigate the possible role of c-fos in NGF-induced differentiation, activated mouse c-fos genes were introduced into PC-12 cells by electroporation. Constitutive expression of fos inhibited NGF-induced differentiation although transfected cells harbored intact NGF receptors. Dibutyryl cyclic AMP (db cAMP) and basic fibroblast growth factor (b-FGF)-induced differentiation were also inhibited. Transcriptional activation of c-fos, c-jun, and ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) by NGF was down-regulated, whereas expression of egr-1 was unaffected in PC-12 fos clones. These results suggest that deregulated expression of fos can interfere with the normal role of NGF in neuronal differentiation.This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:
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