RGD Reference Report - DNA array analysis of the developing rat cerebellum: transforming growth factor-beta2 inhibits constitutively activated NF-kappaB in granule neurons. - Rat Genome Database

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DNA array analysis of the developing rat cerebellum: transforming growth factor-beta2 inhibits constitutively activated NF-kappaB in granule neurons.

Authors: Kaltschmidt, B  Kaltschmidt, C 
Citation: Kaltschmidt B and Kaltschmidt C, Mech Dev. 2001 Mar;101(1-2):11-9.
RGD ID: 2302116
Pubmed: PMID:11231055   (View Abstract at PubMed)

The nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) pathway is important in neuronal survival and in integration of external signals e.g. cytokines, glutamate, Abeta and nerve growth factor (NGF). During rat cerebellar development NF-kappaB activity is high in granule cells before postnatal day 7 (P7) and declines after P7. Using gene expression profiles, measured by cDNA arrays, up-regulation of transforming growth factor-beta2 (TGF-beta2) was correlated with the developmental down-regulation of NF-kappaB. TGF-beta2 depicted strongest, more than 4-fold, up-regulation in P12 versus P4 cerebella. In situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry confined upregulated TGF-beta2 to granule cells and correlated mRNA and TGF-beta2-protein increase. Finally TGF-beta2 repressed NF-kappaB activity, in an in vitro system resembling migrating cerebellar granule cells. Thus, TGF-beta might fulfill an important role in repressing developmentally activated NF-kappaB in granule neurons.

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Biological Process
TermQualifierEvidenceWithReferenceNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
hindbrain development  IEP 2302116 RGD 

Objects Annotated

Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Tgfb2  (transforming growth factor, beta 2)


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