Phosphorylation of transcription factor cyclic-AMP response element binding protein mediates c-fos induction elicited by sustained hypertension in rat nucleus tractus solitarii
Phosphorylation of transcription factor cyclic-AMP response element binding protein mediates c-fos induction elicited by sustained hypertension in rat nucleus tractus solitarii
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DOI:
10.1016/s0306-4522(98)00273-5
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发表时间:
1999-02-01
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影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Chan, SHH
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作者:
Chan, JYH;Chen, WC;Chan, SHH
We investigated the role of cyclic-AMP response element binding protein signaling in the induction of the immediate-early gene c-fos by baroreceptor activation in neurons of the nucleus tractus solitarii of anesthetized rats. Activation of the arterial baroreceptors with sustained hypertension significantly increased the number of neurons in the caudal nucleus tractus solitarii that were immunoreactive to an antiserum that detects Ser(133)-phosphorylated cyclic-AMP response element binding protein. This implied increase in phosphorylation of cyclic-AMP response element binding protein was subsequently followed by an elevation in the expression of Fos protein in neurons of the nucleus tractus solitarii. Microinjection bilaterally into the nucleus tractus solitarii of a phosphorothioated antisense oligonucleotide directed against the initiation site of cyclic-AMP response element binding protein messenger RNA discernibly reduced the manifested immunoreactivity of phosphorylated cyclic-AMP response element binding protein in response to baroreceptor activation. This was accompanied by a decline in the transcription of c-fos messenger RNA and the expression of Fos protein, along with an appreciable potentiation of the baroreceptor reflex response. Control injections of the sense oligonucleotide or artificial cerebrospinal fluid were ineffective.These findings suggest that phosphorylation of cyclic-AMP response element binding protein is crucial to Fos expression in the nucleus tractus solitarii elicited by sustained hypertension. As such, phosphorylation of cyclic-AMP response element binding protein may be an important early nuclear event that mediates the long-term inhibitory modulation of the baroreceptor reflex response by Fos protein at the nucleus tractus solitarii. (C) 1998 IBRO. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.