Nerve growth factor acts through cAMP-dependent protein kinase to increase the number of sodium channels in PC12 cells.
cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) and phospholipid-dependent protein kinase (PKC) play a role in nerve growth factor (NGF)-mediated differentiation. In PC12 cells, NGF causes neurite outgrowth and increases the number of voltage-gated Na+ channels. Neurite outgrowth involves in part activation of PKC. How NGF regulates Na+ channel number is unknown. Using patch-clamp techniques, we find that agents activating PKC, including phorbol esters and a ras oncogene product (p21) that induces neurites, caused little increase in channel number. In contrast, agents increasing intracellular cAMP were as effective as NGF. A specific protein inhibitor of the PKA catalytic subunit blocked increases by NGF or cAMP. Thus, NGF increases Na+ channel number in PC12 cells in part by activating PKA but apparently not PKC.
Department of Biology, University of California, Los Angeles 90024.
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D009414:Nerve Growth Factors; D015222:Sodium Channels; D005576:Colforsin; D003995:Dibutyryl Cyclic GMP; D003563:Cyclic CMP; D013779:Tetrodotoxin; D003994:Bucladesine; C053441:dibutyryl cyclic-3',5'-cytidine monophosphate; D011494:Protein Kinases; D015056:1-Methyl-3-isobutylxanthine; D004121:Dimethyl Sulfoxide