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Sigma-1 receptors potentiate epidermal growth factor signaling towards neuritogenesis in PC12 cells: potential relation to lipid raft reconstitution.

Authors: Takebayashi, M  Hayashi, T  Su, TP 
Citation: Takebayashi M, etal., Synapse. 2004 Aug;53(2):90-103.
RGD ID: 10395239
Pubmed: PMID:15170821   (View Abstract at PubMed)
DOI: DOI:10.1002/syn.20041   (Journal Full-text)

We previously demonstrated that overexpression of sigma-1 receptors (sigma-1R) potentiated neurite sprouting caused by nerve growth factor in PC12 cells (Takebayashi et al. 2002 J Pharmacol Exp Ther 202:1227-1237). In this study we examined if sigma-1R may be involved in the action of epidermal growth factor (EGF). EGF is conventionally recognized as a mitogenic factor that stimulates only the proliferation of various types of cells, including PC12 cells. We found here that in sigma-1 receptor-overexpressing PC12 cells (sigma-1R OE cells), EGF markedly stimulates neuritogenesis without affecting cellular proliferation. EGF receptors (EGFR) are largely reduced in lipid rafts and are enriched in non-raft regions in sigma-1R OE cells. The enrichment of EGFR in the non-raft region is correlated with enhanced downstream signaling of EGFR including the phosphorylation of both EGFR and extracellular signal-regulated kinases (ERKs). Destruction of cholesterol-containing rafts by treating cells with methyl-beta-cyclodextrin also causes a reduction of EGFR in lipid rafts, a concomitant increase in the phosphorylation of both EGFR and ERK, and an increase in the EGF-induced neurite sprouting in wildtype cells. Furthermore, while overexpression of sigma-1R increases the level of lipid raft-associated cholesterol, the overexpression alters the levels of gangliosides in lipid rafts: GM1 and GM2 are decreased, whereas GD1a is increased. We conclude that sigma-1R cause the remodeling of lipid rafts, at least by increasing the level of lipid raft-associated cholesterol and by altering the levels of certain critical lipid raft-forming gangliosides. sigma-1R may thus play an important role in directing EGF signaling towards neuritogenesis, perhaps by shifting EGFR from the lipid raft into non-raft regions.

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Gene Egfr epidermal growth factor receptor Rattus norvegicus

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