High-Level Activation of Cyclic AMP Signaling Attenuates Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2-Induced Sympathoadrenal Lineage Development and Promotes Melanogenesis in Neural Crest Cultures
2005
The intensity of cyclic AMP (cAMP) signaling is a differential instructive signal in neural crest (NC) cell specification. By an unknown mechanism, sympathoadrenal lineage specification is suppressed by high-level activation of cAMP signaling. In NC cultures, high-level activation of cAMP signaling mediates protein kinase A (PKA)-dependent Rap1-B-Raf-ERK1/2 activation, leading to cytoplasmic accumulation of phospho-Smad1, thus terminating bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP2)-induced sympathoadrenal cell development. Concurrently, cAMP signaling induces transcription of the melanocyte-determining transcription factor Mitf and melanogenesis. dnACREB and E1A inhibit Mitf expression and melanogenesis, supporting the notion that CREB activation is necessary for melanogenesis. However, constitutively active CREBDIEDML without PKA activation is insufficient for Mitf expression and melanogenesis, indicating PKA regulates additional aspects of Mitf transcription. Thus, high-level activation of cAMP signaling plays a dual role in NC cell differentiation: attenuation of BMP2-induced sympathoadrenal cell development and induction of melanogenesis. We conclude the intensity of activation of signal transduction cascades determines cell lineage segregation mechanisms.
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- Cyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein
- CREB
- Protein kinase A
- Transcription factor
- Cellular differentiation
- Microphthalmia-associated transcription factor
- Molecular biology
- Signal transduction
- Biology
- Second messenger system
- Cell biology
- SOX10
- Cell fate determination
- Cell signaling
- Transforming growth factor beta
- Internal medicine
- Neural crest
- Endocrinology
- Wnt signaling pathway
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