PMID- 22700586 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20121210 LR - 20211021 IS - 1944-9917 (Electronic) IS - 0888-8809 (Print) IS - 0888-8809 (Linking) VI - 26 IP - 8 DP - 2012 Aug TI - BDNF alters ERK/p38 MAPK activity ratios to promote differentiation in growth plate chondrocytes. PG - 1406-16 LID - 10.1210/me.2012-1063 [doi] AB - The ERK and p38 MAPK pathways are well-known transducers of signals that regulate proliferation and differentiation, but precisely how these pathways control growth plate chondrocyte development is unclear. For example, the ERK pathway has been reported to be required by some investigators but inhibitory to chondrocyte development by others. Moreover, how these two pathways interact to regulate chondrocyte development is even less clear. Using primary bovine growth plate chondrocytes and murine ATDC5 cells, we demonstrate that the ERK and p38 pathways have opposing effects on proliferation but are both absolutely required for differentiation. Two factors that promote chondrocyte differentiation, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and C-type natriuretic peptide, increase p38 activity while decreasing, but not completely inhibiting, ERK activity. The attenuation of ERK activity by BDNF occurs via p38-dependent raf-1 inhibition. The inhibition of raf-1 by p38 is direct, because purified p38 protein inhibits the kinase activity of purified active raf-1 as well as raf-1 immunoprecipitated from chondrocyte lysates. Moreover, IGF-I, which stimulates proliferation, suppresses p38 activation. This work describes a model wherein unopposed IGF-I promotes high ERK/p38 activity ratios favoring proliferation, whereas BDNF signals a transition to differentiation by decreasing the ERK/p38 activity ratio without completely inhibiting ERK, which involves the direct inhibition of raf-1 by p38. FAU - Hutchison, Michele R AU - Hutchison MR AD - Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390-9063, USA. michele.hutchison@utsouthwestern.edu LA - eng GR - K08 DK073447/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - DK073447/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural DEP - 20120614 PL - United States TA - Mol Endocrinol JT - Molecular endocrinology (Baltimore, Md.) JID - 8801431 RN - 0 (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor) RN - 0 (Insulin) RN - 127869-51-6 (Natriuretic Peptide, C-Type) RN - 67763-96-6 (Insulin-Like Growth Factor I) RN - EC 2.7.1.- (Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-raf) RN - EC 2.7.11.24 (Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP Kinases) RN - EC 2.7.11.24 (JNK Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases) RN - EC 2.7.11.24 (p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor/*physiology MH - Cattle MH - *Cell Differentiation MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Chondrocytes/enzymology/metabolism/*physiology MH - Enzyme Activation MH - Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP Kinases/*metabolism MH - Growth Plate/*cytology MH - Insulin/pharmacology/physiology MH - Insulin-Like Growth Factor I/physiology MH - JNK Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases/metabolism MH - MAP Kinase Signaling System MH - Male MH - Mice MH - Natriuretic Peptide, C-Type/physiology MH - Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases/metabolism MH - Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-raf/metabolism MH - p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases/*metabolism PMC - PMC3404299 EDAT- 2012/06/16 06:00 MHDA- 2012/12/12 06:00 PMCR- 2013/08/01 CRDT- 2012/06/16 06:00 PHST- 2012/06/16 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2012/06/16 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/12/12 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2013/08/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - me.2012-1063 [pii] AID - ME-12-1063 [pii] AID - 10.1210/me.2012-1063 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Mol Endocrinol. 2012 Aug;26(8):1406-16. doi: 10.1210/me.2012-1063. Epub 2012 Jun 14.