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NGF-promoted axon growth and target innervation requires GITRL-GITR signaling.


ABSTRACT: Nerve growth factor (NGF) has an important role in regulating sympathetic neuron survival and target field innervation during development. Here we show that glucocorticoid-induced tumor necrosis factor receptor-related protein (GITR), a member of the TNF superfamily, and its ligand (GITRL) are co-expressed in mouse sympathetic neurons when their axons are innervating their targets under the influence of target-derived NGF. In culture, GITRL enhanced NGF-promoted neurite growth from neonatal sympathetic neurons, and preventing GITR-GITRL interaction in these neurons or knocking down GITR inhibited NGF-promoted neurite growth without affecting neuronal survival. Tnfrsf18(-/-) (Gitr) neonates have reduced sympathetic innervation density in vivo compared with Gitr(+/+) littermates. GITR activation is required for the phosphorylation of extracellular signal-regulated kinases 1 and 2 by NGF that is necessary for neurite growth. Our results reveal a previously unknown signaling loop in developing sympathetic neurons that is crucial for NGF-dependent axon growth and target innervation.

SUBMITTER: O'Keeffe GW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3531920 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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NGF-promoted axon growth and target innervation requires GITRL-GITR signaling.

O'Keeffe Gerard W GW   Gutierrez Humberto H   Pandolfi Pier Paolo PP   Riccardi Carlo C   Davies Alun M AM  

Nature neuroscience 20080106 2


Nerve growth factor (NGF) has an important role in regulating sympathetic neuron survival and target field innervation during development. Here we show that glucocorticoid-induced tumor necrosis factor receptor-related protein (GITR), a member of the TNF superfamily, and its ligand (GITRL) are co-expressed in mouse sympathetic neurons when their axons are innervating their targets under the influence of target-derived NGF. In culture, GITRL enhanced NGF-promoted neurite growth from neonatal symp  ...[more]

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