Nerve growth factor regulates tyrosine hydroxylase gene transcription through a nucleoprotein complex that contains c-Fos - PubMed (original) (raw)

Nerve growth factor regulates tyrosine hydroxylase gene transcription through a nucleoprotein complex that contains c-Fos

E Gizang-Ginsberg et al. Genes Dev. 1990 Apr.

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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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