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NEURON
Volume 32, Issue 5, Pages 801-814Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(01)00526-8
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- NINDS NIH HHS [NS24054] Funding Source: Medline
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The target-derived neurotrophic factor nerve growth factor (NGF) signals through TrkA to promote the survival, differentiation, and maintenance of neurons. How the NGF signal in axon terminals is conveyed to the cell body is unknown. The signaling endosome hypothesis envisions that NGF-TrkA complexes are internalized at the axon terminal and retrogradely transported to the cell body. Following NGF treatment, we found that clathrin-coated vesicles contained NGF bound to TrkA together with activated signaling proteins of the Ras-MAP kinase pathway. Evidence that these vesicles could signal was their ability in vitro to activate Elk, a downstream target of Erk1/2. Our results point to the existence of a population of signaling endosomes derived from clathrin-coated membranes in NGF-treated cells.
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