title: GDNF recruits the signaling crew into lipid rafts.
abstract: Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) family ligands (GFL) are potent survival factors and regulators for central and peripheral neurons. GFLs bind to specific glycosyl phosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored co-receptors (GFRalpha1-alpha4), but signal through a common c-Ret receptor. Both GPI-anchored and soluble GFRalpha1 recruit c-Ret to lipid rafts following GDNF stimulation, where c-Ret interacts with different proteins than outside the rafts. Soluble GFRalpha1 mobilizes c-Ret to rafts by a different mechanism compared with GPI-anchored GFRalpha1.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, PO Box 56, Viikinkaari 9, FIN-00014, Helsinki, Finland. Mart.Saarma@helsinki.fi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saarma
mesh_terms: D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D051100:Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor; D051097:Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Receptors; D021962:Membrane Microdomains / Q000378:metabolism*; D009414:Nerve Growth Factors; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D009474:Neurons / Q000378:metabolism*; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D051096:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ret; D020794:Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000378:metabolism; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D029721:Drosophila Proteins; D051100:Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor; D051097:Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Receptors; D009414:Nerve Growth Factors; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D011518:Proto-Oncogene Proteins; D051096:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-ret; D020794:Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases; C416649:Ret protein, Drosophila