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The Journal of Neuroscience, December 15, 1999, 19(24):10757-10766
Neuregulin Induces GABAA Receptor Subunit Expression
and Neurite Outgrowth in Cerebellar Granule Cells
Heather I.
Rieff1,
Lori
T.
Raetzman3,
Douglas W.
Sapp4,
Hermes H.
Yeh4,
Ruth E.
Siegel2, and
Gabriel
Corfas1
1 Division of Neuroscience and Department of Neurology,
Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and Program in
Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, 2 Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve
University, School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-4965, 3 Department of Neuroscience, Case Western Reserve
University, School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-4975, and
4 Department of Pharmacology and Neurology, Program in
Neuroscience, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington,
Connecticut 06030
Neuregulin (NRG), a growth and differentiation factor that signals
via erbB receptor tyrosine kinases, has been shown to have biological
effects in both the CNS and the peripheral nervous system. We
report here that erbB4 is expressed in mature cerebellar granule cells,
where it appears to be concentrated at the granule cell postsynaptic
terminals. We also show that one form of NRG, Ig-NRG, plays a crucial
role in aspects of cerebellar granule cell development in
vitro. First, Ig-NRG treatment of granule cells in culture
selectively induces the expression of the GABAA receptor
2 subunit. This increase in subunit expression is paralleled by an
increase in functional GABAA receptors. In contrast to its effects on GABAA receptor subunit expression, Ig-NRG does
not upregulate NMDA receptor N2B and N2C subunit expression. Second, we
demonstrate that Ig-NRG also enhances neurite outgrowth from cultured
granule cells. Ig-NRG does not, however, act as a survival factor for
the granule cells. We have compared the effect of Ig-NRG with the
effects of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), a neurotrophin
that exerts specific effects on granule cells in culture, and found
that BDNF does not mimic the effects of Ig-NRG on GABAA
receptor subunit expression. Our results show that Ig-NRG has specific
effects on granule cell development and maturation and may regulate
these processes in vivo.
Key words:
erbB receptors; neuregulin; cerebellum; neurite
outgrowth; GABAA receptors; neuronal differentiation; cerebellar granule cells
Copyright © 1999 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/99/192410757-10$05.00/0
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