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. 1991 Sep 15;88(18):8016–8019. doi: 10.1073/pnas.88.18.8016

Glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol/inositol phosphoglycan: a signaling system for the low-affinity nerve growth factor receptor.

J Represa 1, M A Avila 1, C Miner 1, F Giraldez 1, G Romero 1, R Clemente 1, J M Mato 1, I Varela-Nieto 1
PMCID: PMC52436  PMID: 1654553

Abstract

Nerve growth factor (NGF) exerts a variety of actions during embryonic development. At the early stages of inner ear development, NGF stimulates cell proliferation, an effect mediated through low-affinity receptors. We have studied the possibility that the glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol/inositol phosphoglycan (glycosyl-PtdIns/IPG) system is involved in transmitting this NGF signal. Endogenous glycosyl-PtdIns was characterized in extracts of cochleovestibular ganglia (CVGs) that incorporated [3H]glucosamine, [3H]galactose, [3H]myristic acid, and [3H]palmitic acid. Incubation of CVG with NGF produced a rapid and transient hydrolysis of glycosyl-PtdIns. Hydrolysis was complete at 100 ng/ml, and the half-maximal effect occurred at 25 ng/ml, overlapping with the concentration dependence of the mitogenic effect of NGF. An IPG was isolated from embryonic extracts. It had biological effects similar to those reported for the insulin-induced IPG in other tissues. It exerted a powerful mitogenic effect on CVG, comparable to that of NGF. Both the IPG- and NGF-induced cell proliferation were blocked by anti-IPG antibodies that recognized the endogenous IPG on a silica plate immunoassay. These results show that CVG possesses a fully active glycosyl-PtdIns/IPG signal transduction system and that the proliferative effects associated with NGF binding to low-affinity receptors require IPG generation.

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