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MOLECULAR CELL
Volume 21, Issue 2, Pages 283-294Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2005.12.006
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- Medical Research Council [G0500792, G120/934] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [NS37090, NS34814] Funding Source: Medline
- PHS HHS [00266] Funding Source: Medline
- Medical Research Council [G120/934, G0500792] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G120/934, G0500792] Funding Source: UKRI
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Prevailing views of neurotrophin action hold that the transcription factor CREB is constitutively bound to target genes with transcriptional activation occurring via CREB phosphorylation. However, we report that within several CRE-containing genes, CREB is not constitutively bound. Upon exposure of neurons to brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), CREB becomes rapidly bound to DNA coincident with phosphorylation at its transcriptional regulatory site, Ser133. This inducible CREB-DNA binding is independent of CREB Ser133 phosphorylation and is not affected by inhibition of the ERK or PI3K signaling pathways. Instead, BDNF regulates CREB binding by initiating a nitric oxide-dependent signaling pathway that leads to S-nitrosylation of nuclear proteins that associate with CREB target genes. Pharmacological manipulation of neurons in vitro and analysis of mice lacking neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) suggest that NO mediates BDNF and activity-dependent expression of CREB target genes. Thus, in conjunction with CREB phosphorylation, the NO pathway controls CREB-DNA binding and CRE-mediated gene expression.
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