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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 54, Issue 3, Pages 430-442Publisher
HUMANA PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1007/s12031-014-0299-2
Keywords
Klf4; Cell cycle; Cyclin D1; Neuropeptide; PACAP; Retina
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- NIH NCRR [P30RR032135/NIGMS P30GM103498]
- CAEN/International Society for Neurochemistry
- CNPq
- FAPERJ
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We showed previously that the neuropeptide pituitary adenylyl cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) negatively regulates proliferation of postnatal rat retinal progenitor cells through the downregulation of cyclin D1 in a cAMP/protein kinase A dependent manner. In the present study, we describe by microarray analysis several putative PACAP targets regulated by different transcription factor families. One of these families is the Sp/Klf family of transcriptional factors capable of regulating cyclin D1, and among members, we demonstrate by immunocytochemistry that KLF4 is expressed throughout rat retinal development by retinal progenitor cells and in most differentiated cell types. Using retinal explants preparations, PACAP treatment can transiently increase Klf4 mRNA levels; from electrophoretic mobility shift assays, PACAP is also able to increase the nuclear KLF4 content. From these results, we suggest that KLF4 may be involved in the anti-proliferative effects of PACAP as one mechanism regulating progenitor cell transition from proliferation to differentiation throughout retinal development.
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