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Cooperation of Sp1 and p300 in the induction of the CDK inhibitor p21WAF1/CIP1 during NGF-mediated neuronal differentiation

Oncogene volume 18, pages 2872–2882 (1999)Cite this article

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Addition of nerve growth factor (NGF) to PC12 cells promotes neuronal differentiation while inhibiting cell proliferation. In order to understand how NGF exerts its antimitogenic effect during differentiation, we have studied the mechanism by which this factor activates the promoter of the CDK inhibitor p21WAF1/CIP1. The minimal region of the p21 promoter required for the NGF-induction was mapped to a contiguous stretch of 10 bp located 83 bases upstream of the transcription initiation site. This GC-rich region was shown to interact specifically with the transcription factor Sp1 and the related protein Sp3, in either exponentially-growing or NGF-treated PC12 cells. The addition of NGF resulted in an accumulation of the transcriptional co-activator p300 in complexes associated with the NGF-responsive region. Transcriptional activity of Sp1, Sp3 and p300 was specifically induced by NGF in a Gal4-fusion assay, indicating that induction of p21 during neuronal differentiation may involve regulation of the activity of these factors by NGF. Furthermore, p300 was able to act as a co-activator for Sp1-mediated transcriptional activation in PC12 cells, suggesting that p300 and Sp1 may cooperate in activating p21 transcription during the withdrawal of neuronal precursors from the cell cycle. This hypothesis is supported by experiments showing that p300 and Sp1 form complexes in PC12 cells.

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Acknowledgements

We wish to thank Drs S Grossman, R Eckner and Y Shi for the generous gift of plasmids and antibodies for the study of p300; Dr J Horowitz for plasmids and antibodies for the study of Sp1 and Sp3. We also thank S Mouradian and A Thomas for technical assistance. Particular thanks to Dr P Jalinot for discussions and advice through the course of this work and for critical reading of the manuscript. This work was supported by grants from the Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer (`Signalisation et Oncogénèse'), the committee of the Ligue from Saône et Loire, the Rhône-Alpes Region (`Vieillissement'), the Association for Research against Cancer (ARC) (#1394), SANOFI-Recherche and the European Union via a concerted action grant in Cancer Research BIOMED 1 (BMH1-CT94-1417) and a cost-shared grant in Brain Research BIOMED 2 (BMH4-CT96-0010). N Billon and D Carlisi were supported by grants from the Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche and LAvG with fellowships from the Ligue Nationale Contre le Cancer and the ARC.

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  1. Leo A van Grunsven

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  3. Nathalie Billon and Didier Carlisi: The first two authors contributed equally to this work

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    Nathalie Billon, Didier Carlisi, Leo A van Grunsven, Alanna Watt & Brian B Rudkin

  2. Department of Pharmacology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 27710, NC, USA

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Billon, N., Carlisi, D., Datto, M. et al. Cooperation of Sp1 and p300 in the induction of the CDK inhibitor p21WAF1/CIP1 during NGF-mediated neuronal differentiation. Oncogene 18, 2872–2882 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.onc.1202712

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