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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 46, Issue 2, Pages 498-506Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2010.12.002
Keywords
NGF/TrkA; BDNF/TrkB; VEGF; HIF-1 alpha; Dorsal root ganglion neurons; Cerebellar granule neurons; Neuroblastoma
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- NIH, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23592065] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Communication between the vasculature and nervous system is important during embryogenesis but the molecular mechanisms mediating this are ill-defined. We evaluated the molecular mechanisms by which Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) and Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) regulate VEGF production. NGF activation of TrkA causes a marked increase in VEGF secretion by neuronal cells. The NGF induced increase in VEGF is accompanied by an increase in HIF-1 alpha. Pharmacologic inhibitors of the Trk tyrosine kinase, PI-3 kinase and mTOR paths prevent NGF stimulated increases in HIF-1 alpha and VEGF. NGF induced increase in VEGF transcription is dependent on a hypoxia response element (HRE) in the VEGF promoter. Mutation of the HRE or siRNA mediated silencing of HIF-1 alpha expression blocks NGF induced increases in VEGF transcription. In primary cultures of TrkA expressing neurons from dorsal root ganglion. NGF induces VEGF expression that is accompanied by increases in HIF-1 alpha but not HIF-2 alpha expression. In CGN neurons, BDNF induces VEGF that is dependent on induction of HIF-1 alpha. Our study indicates that neurotrophin activation of Trk stimulates an increase in VEGF transcription that is mediated by induction of HIF-1 alpha. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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