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The Journal of Neuroscience, February 1, 2002, 22(3):854-862
Tumor Necrosis Factor Inhibits Neurite Outgrowth and Branching of
Hippocampal Neurons by a Rho-Dependent Mechanism
Harald
Neumann1, 3,
Rüdiger
Schweigreiter2, 4,
Toshihide
Yamashita2,
Katja
Rosenkranz1,
Hartmut
Wekerle1, and
Yves-Alain
Barde2, 4
Departments of 1 Neuroimmunology and
2 Neurobiochemistry, Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology,
82152 Martinsried, Germany, 3 Neuroimmunology, European
Neuroscience Institute Göttingen, 37073 Göttingen, Germany,
and 4 Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research,
4058 Basel, Switzerland
In response to injury and inflammation of the CNS, brain
cells including microglia and astrocytes secrete tumor necrosis
factor- (TNF). This pro-inflammatory cytokine has been
implicated in both neuronal cell death and survival. We now provide
evidence that TNF affects the formation of neurites. Neurons cultured
on astrocytic glial cells exhibited reduced outgrowth and branching of
neurites after addition of recombinant TNF or prestimulation of glial
cells to secrete TNF. This effect was absent in neurons of TNF
receptor-deficient mice cultured on prestimulated glia of wild-type
mice and was reverted by blocking TNF with soluble TNF receptor IgG
fusion protein. TNF activated in neurons the small GTPase RhoA. By
inactivating Rho with C3 transferase, the inhibitory effect of TNF on
neurite outgrowth and branching was abolished. These results suggest
that glia-derived TNF, as part of an injury or inflammatory process, can inhibit neurite elongation and branching during development and regeneration.
Key words:
neurite; morphogenesis; Rho; GTPases; TNF; cytokine; TNF
receptor; glia
Copyright © 2002 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/02/223854-09$05.00/0
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