Journal article
Stimulation of the calcitonin gene-related peptide enhancer by mitogen-activated protein kinases and repression by an antimigraine drug in trigeminal ganglia neurons
The Journal of neuroscience, Vol.23(3), pp.807-815
02/01/2003
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.23-03-00807.2003
PMCID: PMC6741928
PMID: 12574409
Abstract
Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) is involved in the underlying pathophysiology of all vascular headaches, including migraines. Elevated levels of CGRP during migraine are restored to normal coincident with headache relief after treatment with the antimigraine drug sumatriptan. We have used primary cultures of trigeminal neurons under conditions simulating migraine pathology and therapy to study the mechanisms controlling the CGRP promoter. Using reporter genes in transient transfection assays, we demonstrate that an 18 bp enhancer containing a helix-loop-helix element is both necessary and sufficient for full promoter activity. NGF treatment and cotransfection with an upstream activator of the extracellular signal-regulated MAP kinases (MAPKs) activated the enhancer. Treatment with sumatriptan repressed NGF- and MAPK-stimulated CGRP promoter activity. Repression was also observed using a synthetic MAPK-responsive reporter gene. Sumatriptan regulation of CGRP gene expression did not couple to a G(i)/G(o) pathway, but rather caused a prolonged increase in intracellular calcium. The importance of the prolonged calcium signal in repression of MAPK activity was demonstrated by using the ionophore ionomycin to mimic sumatriptan action. We propose that activation of MAPK pathways may increase CGRP gene expression during migraine, and that sumatriptan can diametrically oppose that activation via a prolonged elevation of intracellular calcium.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Stimulation of the calcitonin gene-related peptide enhancer by mitogen-activated protein kinases and repression by an antimigraine drug in trigeminal ganglia neurons
- Creators
- Paul L Durham - Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA. pauldurham@smsu.eduAndrew F Russo
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Journal of neuroscience, Vol.23(3), pp.807-815
- DOI
- 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.23-03-00807.2003
- PMID
- 12574409
- PMCID
- PMC6741928
- NLM abbreviation
- J Neurosci
- ISSN
- 0270-6474
- eISSN
- 1529-2401
- Publisher
- United States
- Grant note
- DK 25295 / NIDDK NIH HHS HD 25969 / NICHD NIH HHS HL 14388 / NHLBI NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/01/2003
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Molecular Physiology and Biophysics; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Craniofacial Anomalies Research Center
- Record Identifier
- 9984020990502771
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