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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 286, Issue 38, Pages 33310-33321Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.255976
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- National Institutes of Health [RO1 HL091071, RO1 GM085179]
- Veterans Affairs Career Development Award
- Department of Veterans Affairs
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Decreased expression of prosurvival and progrowth-stimulatory pathways, in addition to an environment that inhibits neuronal growth, contribute to the limited regenerative capacity in the central nervous system following injury or neurodegeneration. Membrane/lipid rafts, plasmalemmal microdomains enriched in cholesterol, sphingolipids, and the protein caveolin (Cav) are essential for synaptic development/stabilization and neuronal signaling. Cav-1 concentrates glutamate and neurotrophin receptors and prosurvival kinases and regulates cAMP formation. Here, we show that primary neurons that express a synapsin-driven Cav-1 vector (SynCav1) have increased raft formation, neurotransmitter and neurotrophin receptor expression, NMDA- and BDNF-mediated prosurvival kinase activation, agonist-stimulated cAMP formation, and dendritic growth. Moreover, expression of SynCav1 in Cav-1 KO neurons restores NMDA- and BDNF-mediated signaling and enhances dendritic growth. The enhanced dendritic growth occurred even in the presence of inhibitory cytokines (TNF alpha, IL-1 beta) and myelin-associated glycoproteins (MAG, Nogo). Targeting of Cav-1 to neurons thus enhances prosurvival and progrowth signaling and may be a novel means to repair the injured and neurodegenerative brain.
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