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- Title
p75<sup>NTR</sup> and the concept of cellular dependence: seeing how the other half die.
- Authors
Bredesen, Dale E; Ye, Xin; Tasinato, Andrea; Sperandio, Sabina; Wang, James JL; Assa-Munt, Nuria; Rabizadeh, Shahrooz
- Abstract
Cells depend on specific stimuli, such as trophic factors, for survival and in the absence of such stimuli, undergo apoptosis. How do cells initiate apoptosis in response to the withdrawal of trophic factors or other dependent stimuli? Recent studies of apoptosis induction by neurotrophin withdrawal argue for a novel form of pro-apoptotic signal transduction — 'negative signal transduction' — in which the absence of ligand-receptor interaction induces cell death. We have found that the prototype for this form of signaling — the common neurotrophin receptor, p75[sup NTR] - creates a state of cellular dependence (or addiction) on neurotrophins, and that this effect requires an 'addiction/dependence domain' (ADD) in the intracytoplasmic region of p75[sup NTR]. We have recently found other receptors that include dependence domains, arguing that dependence receptors, and their associated dependence domains, may be involved in a rather general mechanism to create cellular states of dependence on trophic factors, cytokines, adhesion, electrical activity and other dependent stimuli.
- Publication
Cell Death & Differentiation, 1998, Vol 5, Issue 5, p365
- ISSN
1350-9047
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1038/sj.cdd.4400378