Nerve growth factor regulates tyrosine hydroxylase gene transcription through a nucleoprotein complex that contains c-Fos.
10.1101/gad.4.4.477
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Genes & Development (246)
Abstract

We have studied nerve growth factor (NGF) regulation of the expression of the tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) gene in PC12 cells. The TH gene encodes the initial and rate-limiting enzyme of the catecholamine biosynthetic pathway. We show that the TH gene is transiently transcriptionally induced by a mechanism reliant on new protein synthesis during 1-2 hr of NGF stimulation, a time following the induction of the c-fos gene at 15 min post-NGF treatment. A potential regulatory sequence located within the TH gene promoter, the TH-FSE, shares homology to a known regulatory element, the fat-specific element (FSE), which is found upstream from genes activated during adipocyte differentiation and binds the Fos-Jun transcription factor complex. We show that the TH-FSE DNA sequence elevates the basal level of transcription from the rat TH promoter and is required for NGF inducibility. This DNA element binds authentic Fos-Jun products produced abundance during NGF stimulation and by in vitro translation. We demonstrate further that the TH-FSE can bind proteins present in PC12 nuclear extracts in a sequence-specific manner. The DNA/nucleoprotein complex that forms increases in abundance during NGF stimulation and reaches a maximum level at 4 hr of treatment. Antibody inhibition studies utilizing an anti-Fos antibody indicate that Fos and/or Fos-related antigen(s) associate with the TH-FSE and suggest that the Fos protein family contributes to the regulation of TH in vivo. These results support a model in which NGF-induced immediate early genes, including c-Fos, contribute to the regulation of delayed early genes such as TH and thereby control neuronal differentiation.

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Gizang-Ginsberg, E., & Ziff, E. B. (1990). Nerve growth factor regulates tyrosine hydroxylase gene transcription through a nucleoprotein complex that contains c-Fos. Genes & Development, 4(4), 477–491.

Authors 2
  1. E Gizang-Ginsberg (first)
  2. E B Ziff (additional)
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@article{Gizang_Ginsberg_1990, title={Nerve growth factor regulates tyrosine hydroxylase gene transcription through a nucleoprotein complex that contains c-Fos.}, volume={4}, ISSN={1549-5477}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/gad.4.4.477}, DOI={10.1101/gad.4.4.477}, number={4}, journal={Genes & Development}, publisher={Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory}, author={Gizang-Ginsberg, E and Ziff, E B}, year={1990}, month=apr, pages={477–491} }