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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-11-24
pubmed:abstractText
Regulation of neurite outgrowth and structural plasticity may involve the expression of intrinsic determinants controlling growth competence. We have tested this concept by targeting constitutive expression of the growth-associated protein GAP-43 to the neurons of adult transgenic mice. Such mice showed striking spontaneous nerve sprouting at the neuromuscular junction and in the terminal field of hippocampal mossy fibers. In control mice, these nerve fibers did not express GAP-43, and did not sprout spontaneously. Lesion-induced nerve sprouting and terminal arborization during reinnervation were greatly potentiated in GAP-43-overexpressing mice. A mutant GAP-43 that cannot be phosphorylated by PKC had reduced sprout-promoting activity. The results establish GAP-43 as an intrinsic presynaptic determinant for neurite outgrowth and plasticity.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0092-8674
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
20
pubmed:volume
83
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
269-78
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:7585944-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:7585944-Chickens, pubmed-meshheading:7585944-GAP-43 Protein, pubmed-meshheading:7585944-Growth Substances, pubmed-meshheading:7585944-Hippocampus, pubmed-meshheading:7585944-Membrane Glycoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:7585944-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:7585944-Mice, Transgenic, pubmed-meshheading:7585944-Motor Activity, pubmed-meshheading:7585944-Motor Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:7585944-Mutagenesis, pubmed-meshheading:7585944-Nerve Tissue Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:7585944-Nervous System, pubmed-meshheading:7585944-Neurites, pubmed-meshheading:7585944-Neuromuscular Junction, pubmed-meshheading:7585944-Neuronal Plasticity, pubmed-meshheading:7585944-Phosphorylation, pubmed-meshheading:7585944-Protein Kinase C, pubmed-meshheading:7585944-Recombinant Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:7585944-Seizures
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Overexpression of the neural growth-associated protein GAP-43 induces nerve sprouting in the adult nervous system of transgenic mice.
pubmed:affiliation
Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't