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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-3-10
pubmed:abstractText
We recently proposed that ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) shares two receptor components with a generally acting cytokine, leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), but that CNTF also requires a third receptor component (CNTFR alpha) that is mostly restricted to the nervous system in its expression. Here we demonstrate that a transfected CNTFR alpha gene is sufficient to confer CNTF responsiveness upon hemopoietic cells normally responsive only to LIF, providing evidence that CNTFR alpha is a required receptor component that uniquely characterizes CNTF-responding cells. Consistent with this notion, CNTFR alpha expression could be localized to neurons within all known peripheral targets of CNTF. CNTFR alpha was also widely expressed within neurons of the CNS, suggesting that CNTF has broader CNS actions than previously appreciated. However, in vivo localization of CNTFR alpha, as well as of CNTF itself, is consistent with a particularly important role for CNTF in motor function as well as during neuropoiesis.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0896-6273
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
10
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
89-102
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8381290-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:8381290-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:8381290-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:8381290-Blotting, Northern, pubmed-meshheading:8381290-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:8381290-Brain Chemistry, pubmed-meshheading:8381290-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:8381290-Ganglia, pubmed-meshheading:8381290-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:8381290-In Situ Hybridization, pubmed-meshheading:8381290-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:8381290-Muscles, pubmed-meshheading:8381290-Nervous System, pubmed-meshheading:8381290-Nervous System Physiological Phenomena, pubmed-meshheading:8381290-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:8381290-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:8381290-Rats, Sprague-Dawley, pubmed-meshheading:8381290-Receptor, Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor, pubmed-meshheading:8381290-Receptors, Cell Surface, pubmed-meshheading:8381290-Signal Transduction, pubmed-meshheading:8381290-Spinal Cord, pubmed-meshheading:8381290-Structure-Activity Relationship, pubmed-meshheading:8381290-Transfection
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
The alpha component of the CNTF receptor is required for signaling and defines potential CNTF targets in the adult and during development.
pubmed:affiliation
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Tarrytown, New York 10591.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article