eprintid: 10432 rev_number: 174 eprint_status: archive userid: 598 dir: disk0/00/01/04/32 datestamp: 2008-11-05 12:01:36 lastmod: 2021-10-04 00:54:43 status_changed: 2008-11-05 12:01:36 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Parkinson, DB creators_name: Dong, ZP creators_name: Bunting, H creators_name: Whitfield, J creators_name: Meier, C creators_name: Marie, H creators_name: Mirsky, R creators_name: Jeesen, KR title: Transforming growth factor beta (TGF beta) mediates schwann cell death in vitro and in vivo: Examination of c-jun activation, interactions with survival signals, and the relationship of TGF beta-mediated death to schwann cell differentiation subjects: 8900 divisions: UCL divisions: B02 divisions: C08 divisions: D09 divisions: F96 keywords: autocrine signals, apoptosis, nerve development, peripheral nerve, nerve injury, nerve regeneration, MESSENGER-RNA EXPRESSION, V-JUN, TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR, SYMPATHETIC NEURONS, PROTEIN-KINASES, NGF-RECEPTOR, HA-RAS, APOPTOSIS, NERVE, PHOSPHORYLATION abstract: In some situations, cell death in the nervous system is controlled by an interplay between survival factors and negative survival signals that actively induce apoptosis. The present work indicates that the survival of Schwann cells is regulated by such a dual mechanism involving the negative survival signal transforming growth factor beta (TGF beta), a family of growth factors that is present in the Schwann cells themselves. We analyze the interactions between this putative autocrine death signal and previously defined paracrine and autocrine survival signals and show that expression of a dominant negative c-Jun inhibits TGF beta -induced apoptosis. This and other findings pinpoint activation of c-Jun as a key downstream event in TGF beta -induced Schwann cell death. The ability of TGF beta to kill Schwann cells, like normal Schwann cell death in vivo, is under a strong developmental regulation, and we show that the decreasing ability of TGF beta to kill older cells is attributable to a decreasing ability of TGF beta to phosphorylate c-Jun in more differentiated cells. date: 2001-11-01 publisher: SOC NEUROSCIENCE id_number: PMID: 11606645 vfaculties: VFLS rae2008: 14 oa_status: green primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Article verified: verified_batch elements_source: Web of Science elements_id: 4777 lyricists_name: Jessen, Kristjan lyricists_name: Mirsky, Rhona lyricists_name: PARKINSON, DAVID lyricists_id: KRJES88 lyricists_id: RMIRS78 lyricists_id: DBPAR23 full_text_status: public publication: J NEUROSCI volume: 21 number: 21 pagerange: 8572 - 8585 refereed: TRUE issn: 0270-6474 citation: Parkinson, DB; Dong, ZP; Bunting, H; Whitfield, J; Meier, C; Marie, H; Mirsky, R; Parkinson, DB; Dong, ZP; Bunting, H; Whitfield, J; Meier, C; Marie, H; Mirsky, R; Jeesen, KR; - view fewer <#> (2001) Transforming growth factor beta (TGF beta) mediates schwann cell death in vitro and in vivo: Examination of c-jun activation, interactions with survival signals, and the relationship of TGF beta-mediated death to schwann cell differentiation. J NEUROSCI , 21 (21) 8572 - 8585. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10432/1/10432.pdf