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There has been much interest in the biochemical and biophysical processes that couple extracellular signals to alterations in gene expression. While many early events associated with the treatment of cells with growth factors have been described (for example, ion flux and protein phosphorylation1,2), it has proved difficult to establish biochemical links to gene expression. Recently, the study of such genomic control signals has been facilitated by the demonstration that the c-fos proto-oncogene is rapidly and transiently induced by treatment of several cell types with polypeptide growth factors and other growth modulating substances3–8. In one particular system it has been shown that nerve growth factor (NGF) causes a transient induction of c-fos in the phaeo-chromocytoma cell line PC12, within 15 min9–11. Furthermore, the magnitude of this induction can be modulated with pharmacological agents such as peripheral-type benzodiazepines (BZDs)9. Thus, the study of c-fos expression in PC12 cells could yield valuable clues to the coupling mechanisms linking cell surface activation to genomic events. Here we demonstrate that c-fos is induced in PC12 cells either by receptor–ligand interaction or by agents or conditions that effect voltage-dependent calcium channels.
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Morgan, J., Curran, T. Role of ion flux in the control of c-fos expression. Nature 322, 552–555 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1038/322552a0
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