A Dominant-Negative Inhibitor of CREB Reveals that It Is a General Mediator of Stimulus-Dependent Transcription of c- fos

Author:

Ahn Sohyun1,Olive Michelle2,Aggarwal Seema1,Krylov Dmitry2,Ginty David D.1,Vinson Charles2

Affiliation:

1. Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 212051

2. Laboratory of Biochemistry, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, 2 and

Abstract

ABSTRACT Several studies have characterized the upstream regulatory region of c- fos , and identified cis -acting elements termed the cyclic AMP (cAMP) response elements (CREs) that are critical for c- fos transcription in response to a variety of extracellular stimuli. Although several transcription factors can bind to CREs in vitro, the identity of the transcription factor(s) that activates the c- fos promoter via the CRE in vivo remains unclear. To help identify the trans -acting factors that regulate stimulus-dependent transcription of c- fos via the CREs, dominant-negative (D-N) inhibitor proteins that function by preventing DNA binding of B-ZIP proteins in a dimerization domain-dependent fashion were developed. A D-N inhibitor of CREB, termed A-CREB, was constructed by fusing a designed acidic amphipathic extension onto the N terminus of the CREB leucine zipper domain. The acidic extension of A-CREB interacts with the basic region of CREB forming a coiled-coil extension of the leucine zipper and thus prevents the basic region of wild-type CREB from binding to DNA. Other D-N inhibitors generated in a similar manner with the dimerization domains of Fos, Jun, C/EBP, ATF-2, or VBP did not block CREB DNA binding activity, nor did they inhibit transcriptional activation of a minimal promoter containing a single CRE in PC12 cells. A-CREB inhibited activation of CRE-mediated transcription evoked by three distinct stimuli: forskolin, which increases intracellular cAMP; membrane depolarization, which promotes Ca 2+ influx; and nerve growth factor (NGF). A-CREB completely inhibited cAMP-mediated, but only partially inhibited Ca 2+ - and NGF-mediated, transcription of a reporter gene containing 750 bp of the native c- fos promoter. Moreover, glutamate induction of c- fos expression in primary cortical neurons was dependent on CREB. In contrast, induction of c- fos transcription by UV light was not inhibited by A-CREB. Lastly, A-CREB attenuated NGF induction of morphological differentiation in PC12 cells. These results suggest that CREB or its closely related family members are general mediators of stimulus-dependent transcription of c- fos and are required for at least some of the long-term actions of NGF.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Cell Biology,Molecular Biology

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