Zif268 and Fos-like immunoreactivity in tetanus toxin-induced epilepsy: Reciprocal changes in the epileptic focus and the surround

Brain Research

Volumn 778, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 281-292

  Liang, Fengyi ^a,b   Jones, Edward G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activity dependent gene expression; C fos; Epilepsy; Immediate early gene; Motor cortex; Tetanus toxin; Zif268 egr 1

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTOGENESIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TETANUS;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MOTOR CORTEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; TETANUS TOXIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0031578760     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)01049-4     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Brener K., Amitai Y., Jefferys J., Gutnick M. Chronic epileptic foci in neocortex: in vivo and in vitro effects of tetanus toxin. Eur. J. Neurosci. 3:1990;47-54.
2. Brooks V.B., Asanuma H. Action of tetanus toxin in the cerebral cortex. Science. 137:1962;674-676.
3. Cambi F., Fung B., Chikaraishi D. 5′ flanking DNA sequences direct cell specific expression of rat tyrosine hydroxylase. J. Neurochem. 53:1989;1656-1659.
4. Carrea R., Lanari A. Chronic effect of tetanus toxin applied locally to the cerebral cortex of the dog. Science. 137:1962;342-343.
5. Chiasson B.J., Dennison Z., Robertson H.A. Amygdala kindling and immediate-early genes. Brain Res. Mol. Brain Res. 29:1995;191-199.
6. Chin L.S., Li L., Greengard P. Neuron-specific expression of the synapsin II gene is directed by a specific core promoter and upstream regulatory elements. J. Biol. Chem. 269:1994;18507-18513.
7. Cole A.J., Saffen D.W., Baraban J.M., Worley P.F. Rapid increase of an immediate early gene messenger RNA in hippocampal neurons by synaptic NMDA receptor activation. Nature. 340:1989;474-476.
8. Collins R.C. Use of cortical circuits during focal penicillin seizures: an autoradiographic study with [14C]deoxyglucose. Brain Res. 150:1978;487-501.
9. Comb M., Birnberg N.C., Seasholtz A., Herbert E., Goodman H.M. A cyclic AMP and phorbol ester inducible element. Nature. 323:1986;353-356.
10. Dawson T.M., Snyder S.H. Gases as biological messengers: nitric oxide and carbon monoxide in the brain. J. Neurosci. 14:1994;5147-5159.
11. Donoghue J.P., Wise S.P. The motor cortex of the rat: cytoarchitecture and microstimulation mapping. J. Comp. Neurol. 212:1982;76-88.
12. Douglass J., McMurray C.T., Garrett J.E., Adelman J.P., Calavetta L. Characterization of the rat prodynorphin gene. Mol. Endocrinol. 3:1989;2070-2078.
13. Dragunow M., Robertson H.A. Kindling stimulation induces c-fos protein(s) in granule cells of the rat dentate gyrus. Nature. 329:1987;441-442.
14. Ebert U., Löscher W. Strong induction of c-fos in the piriform cortex during focal seizures evoked from different limbic brain sites. Brain Res. 671:1995;338-344.
15. Empson R.M., Amitai Y., Jefferys J.G.R., Gutnick M.J. Injection of tetanus toxin into the neocortex elicits persistent epileptiform activity but only transient impairment of GABA release. Neurosci. 57:1993;235-239.
16. Francis P.T., Lowe S.L., Bowen D.M., Jefferys J.G.R. Lack of change in neurochemical markers during the postepileptic phase of intrahippocampal tetanus toxin syndrome in rats. Epilepsia. 31:1990;697-701.
17. Gale K., Maggio R., Halonen T., Lanaud P., Grayson D. Regional changes in immediate early gene expression following focally-evoked limbic motor seizures. Epilep. Res. Suppl. 9:1992;361-369.
18. Gass P., Herdegen T., Bravo R., Kiessling M. Induction of immediate early gene encoded proteins in the rat hippocampus after bicuculline-induced seizures: differential expression of KROX-24, FOS and JUN proteins. Neurosci. 48:1992;315-324.
19. Haglund M.M., Ojemann G.A., Hochman D.W. Optical imaging of epileptiform and functional activity in human cerebral cortex. Nature. 358:1992;668-671.
20. Hosford D.A., Simonato M., Cao Z., Garcia-Cairasco N., Silver J.M., Butler L., Shin C., McNamara J.O. Differences in the anatomic distribution of immediate-early gene expression in amygdala and angular bundle kindling development. J. Neurosci. 15:1995;2513-2523.
21. Jefferys J.G., Borck C., Mellanby J. Chronic focal epilepsy induced by intracerebral tetanus toxin. Ital. J. Neurol. Sci. 16:1995;27-32.
22. Kiessling M., Gass P. Immediate early gene expression in experimental epilepsy. Brain Pathol. 3:1993;381-393.
23. Konig H., Ponta H., Rahmsdorf U., Buscher M., Schonthal A., Rahmsdorf H.J., Herrlich P. Autoregulation of fos: the dyad symmetry element as the major target of repression. EMBO J. 8:1989;2559-2566.
24. Lanaud P., Maggio R., Gale K., Grayson D.R. Temporal and spatial patterns of expression of c-fos, zif/268, c-jun and jun-B mRNAs in rat brain following seizures evoked focally from the deep prepiriform cortex. Exp. Neurol. 119:1993;20-31.
25. Lau L.F., Nathans D. Expression of a set of growth-related immediate early genes in BALB/c 3T3 cells: coordinate regulation with c-fos and c-myc. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 84:1987;1182-1186.
26. Li Y., Camp S., Rachinsky T.L., Bongiorno C., Taylor P. Promoter elements and transcriptional control of the mouse acetylcholinesterase gene. J. Biol. Chem. 268:1993;3563-3572.
27. Liang F., Jones E.G. Differential and time-dependent changes in gene expression for CaM kinase IIa, GAD-67 and glutamate receptor subunits in tetanus toxin-induced focal epilepsy. J. Neurosci. 17:1997;2168-2180.
28. Liang F., Jones E.G. Developmental and stimulus-specific expression of the immediate-early gene zif268 in rat spinal cord. Brain Res. 729:1996;246-252.
29. Louis E.D., Williamson P.D., Darcey T.M. Chronic focal epilepsy induced by microinjection of tetanus toxin into the cat motor cortex. Electroencephalogr. Clin. Neurophysiol. 75:1990;548-557.
30. Masood K., Besnard F., Su Y., Brenner M. Analysis of a segment of the human glial fibrillary acidic protein gene that directs astrocyte-specific transcription. J. Neurochem. 61:1993;160-166.
31. Mellanby J., George G., Robinson A., Thompson P. Epileptiform syndrome in rats produced by injecting tetanus toxin into the hippocampus. J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiat. 40:1977;404-414.
32. Molnar G., Crozat A., Pardee A.B. The immediate-early gene Egr-1 regulates the activity of the thymidine kinase promoter at the G0-to-G1 transition of the cell cycle. Mol. Cell Biol. 14:1994;5242-5248.
33. Morgan J.I., Cohen D.R., Hempstead J.L., Curran T. Mapping patterns of c-fos expression in the central nervous system after seizure. Science. 237:1987;192-197.
34. Morgan J.I., Curran T. Stimulus-transcription coupling in the nervous system: Involvement of the inducible proto-oncogenes fos and jun. Ann. Rev. Neurosci. 14:1991;421-451.
35. Neafsey E.J., Sievert C. A second forelimb motor area exists in rat frontal cortex. Brain Res. 232:1982;151-156.
36. S.S. Nikam, G.I. Tennekoon, B.A. Christy, J.E. Yoshino, J.L. Rutkowski, The zinc finger transcription factor zif268/egr-1 is essential for schwann cell expression of the p75 NGF receptor, Mol. Cell Neurosci. (1995) 337-348.
37. Prince D.A., Wilder B.J. Control mechanisms in cortical epileptogenic foci. 'Surround' inhibition. Arch. Neurol. 16:1967;194-202.
38. Racine R.J. Modification of seizure activity by electrical stimulation. II. Motor seizure. Electroencephalogr. Clin. Neurophysiol. 32:1972;281-294.
39. Richardson C.L., Tate W.P., Mason S.E., Lawlor P.A., Dragunow M., Abraham W.C. Correlation between the induction of an immediate early gene, zif/268, and long-term potentiation in the dentate gyrus. Brain Res. 580:1992;147-154.
40. Sassone-Corsi P., Lamph W.W., Kamps M., Verma I.M. Fos-associated cellular p39 is related to nuclear transcription factor AP-1. Cell. 54:1988;553-560.
41. Schuman E.M., Madison D.V. Nitric oxide and synaptic function. Ann. Rev. Neurosci. 17:1994;153-183.
42. Sheng M., Greenberg M.E. The regulation and function of c-fos and other immediate early genes in the nervous system. Neuron. 4:1990;477-485.
43. Simonato M., Hosford D.A., Labiner D.M., Shin C., Mansbach H.H., McNamara J.O. Differential expression of immediate early genes in the hippocampus in the kindling model of epilepsy. Mol. Brain Res. 11:1991;115-124.
44. G. Thiel, S. Schoch, D. Petersohn, Regulation of synapsin I gene expression by the zinc finger transcription factor zif268/egr-1, J. Biol. Chem. (1994) 15294-15301.
45. White L.E., Price J.L. The functional anatomy of limbic status epilepticus in the rat. I. Patterns of 14C-2-deoxyglucose uptake and Fos immunocytochemistry. J. Neurosci. 13:1993;4787-4809.
46. Williams M.B., Jope R.S. Distinctive rat brain immediate early gene responses to seizures induced by lithium plus pilocarpine. Brain Res. Mol. Brain Res. 25:1994;80-89.
47. Wilson T., Treisman R. Fos C-terminal mutations block down-regulation of c-fos transcription following serum stimulation. EMBO J. 7:1988;4193-4202.
48. Winston S.M., Hayward M.D., Nestler E.J., Duman R.S. Chronic electroconvulsive seizures down-regulate expression of the immediate-early genes c-fos and c-jun in rat cerebral cortex. J. Neurochem. 54:1990;1920-1925.
49. Wisden W., Errington M.L., Williams S., Dunnett S.B., Waters C., Hitchcock D., Evan G., Bliss T.V., Hunt S.P. Differential expression of immediate early genes in the hippocampus and spinal cord. Neuron. 4:1990;603-614.