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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 157, Issue 9 3812-3818, Copyright © 1996 by American Association of Immunologists

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Isolation and characterization of murine fra-1: induction mediated by CD40 and surface Ig is protein kinase C dependent

L Huo and TL Rothstein
Department of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, MA 02118, USA.

The murine fra-1 gene, encoding Fos-related Ag 1, was isolated from a splenic cDNA library and sequenced. Murine fra-1 was highly homologous to rat and human fra-1. Oligonucleotide primers based on the murine sequence were used to construct a quantitative reverse transcription- PCR assay for gene expression. B lymphocyte stimulation via both CD40 and surface Ig (sIg) receptors substantially induced fra-1 expression, and for both receptors, induction was protein kinase C (PKC) dependent. This contrasts with induction of c-fos by both CD40 and sIg, which is PKC independent and indicates that CD40 is capable of signaling through PKC or a closely related kinase. Induction of fra-1 following engagement of CD40 did not require protein synthesis, suggesting that the PKC-dependent linkage between CD40 and fra-1 is direct. CD40- mediated fra-1 induction did require tyrosine kinase activity. These results demonstrate that CD40, like sIg, may employ PKC in producing select outcomes, that individual B cell receptors may signal downstream events via both PKC-dependent and PKC-independent pathways, and that multiple signal transduction pathways may be used to activate the expression of closely related genes.


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