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Volume 17, Number 16,
Issue of August 15, 1997
pp. 6122-6132
Copyright ©1997 Society for Neuroscience
Nerve Growth Factor Induces Transcription of the p21 WAF1/CIP1
and Cyclin D1 Genes in PC12 Cells by Activating the Sp1 Transcription
Factor
Received March 4, 1997; revised April 25, 1997; accepted June 4, 1997.
Guo-Zai Yan and
Edward B. Ziff
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biochemistry, Kaplan
Cancer Center, New York University Medical Center, New York, New York
10016
The PC12 pheochromocytoma cell line responds to nerve growth factor
(NGF) by gradually exiting from the cell cycle and differentiating to a
sympathetic neuronal phenotype. We have shown previously () that NGF induces the expression of the p21 WAF1/CIP1/Sdi1 (p21)
cyclin-dependent kinase (Cdk) inhibitor protein and the G1
phase cyclin, cyclin D1. In this report, we show that induction is at
the level of transcription and that the DNA elements in both promoters
that are required for NGF-specific induction are clusters of binding
sites for the Sp1 transcription factor. NGF also induced a synthetic
promoter with repeated Sp1 sites linked to a core promoter, and a
plasmid regulated by a chimeric transactivator in which the Gal4 DNA
binding domain is fused to the Sp1 transactivation domain, indicating
that this transactivation domain is regulated by NGF. Epidermal growth
factor, which is a weak mitogen for PC12, failed to induce any of these
promoter constructs. We consider a model in which the PC12 cell cycle
is arrested as p21 accumulates and attains inhibitory levels relative to Cdk/cyclin complexes. Sustained activation of p21 expression is
proposed to be a distinguishing feature of the activity of NGF that
contributes to PC12 growth arrest during differentiation
Key words:
NGF;
cyclin D1;
p21 WAF1/CIP1/Sdi1;
Sp1;
cell cycle;
PC12
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