ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2012
Members of the myocyte enhancer factor 2 transcription factor family differentially regulate Bdnf transcription in response to neuronal depolarization.
Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
42 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 67 citations in OpenAlex.
- MEF2C rs190982 polymorphism with late-onset Alzheimer's disease in Han Chinese: A replication study and meta-analyses.Oncotarget · 2016Pooled it
- Retrograde transport of neurotrophin receptor TrkB-FL induced by excitotoxicity regulates Golgi stability and is a target for stroke neuroprotection.Cell death & disease · 2025Article
- The Role of Microglial Exosomes in Clozapine Treatment: Effect on Cognition in Schizophrenia.Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology · 2025Review
- Stimulus-Dependent Expression ofThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- A brain-accessible peptide modulates stroke inflammatory response and neurotoxicity by targeting BDNF-receptor TrkB-T1 specific interactome.Theranostics · 2025Article
- Pre- and Postsynaptic MEF2C Promotes Experience-Dependent, Input-Specific Development of Cortical Layer 4 to Layer 2/3 Excitatory Synapses and Regulates Activity-Dependent Expression of Synaptic Cell Adhesion Molecules.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- An upstream enhancer and MEF2 transcription factors fine-tune the regulation of the Bdnf gene in cortical and hippocampal neurons.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2024Article
- MEF2C Directly Interacts with Pre-miRNAs and Distinct RNPs to Post-Transcriptionally Regulate miR-23a-miR-27a-miR-24-2 microRNA Cluster Member Expression.Non-coding RNA · 2024Article
- MEF2C Hypofunction in GABAergic Cells Alters Sociability and Prefrontal Cortex Inhibitory Synaptic Transmission in a Sex-Dependent Manner.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2024Article
- TheThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- The function ofFrontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2024Review
- Article
- Revisiting the expression of BDNF and its receptors in mammalian development.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2023Article
- Brain-derived neurotrophic factor in Alzheimer's disease and its pharmaceutical potential.Translational neurodegeneration · 2022Review
- PSD-95: An Effective Target for Stroke Therapy Using Neuroprotective Peptides.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- Involvement of myocyte enhancer factor 2c in the pathogenesis of autism spectrum disorder.Heliyon · 2021Review
- MEF2C Hypofunction in Neuronal and Neuroimmune Populations Produces MEF2C Haploinsufficiency Syndrome-like Behaviors in Mice.Biological psychiatry · 2020Article
- Article
- The NMDA receptor subunit GluN3A regulates synaptic activity-induced and myocyte enhancer factor 2C (MEF2C)-dependent transcription.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2020Article
- Emerging roles for MEF2 in brain development and mental disorders.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2019Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
Transcription of the gene encoding brain-derived neurotropic factor (BDNF) is induced in response to a wide variety of extracellular stimuli via the activation of a complex array of transcription factors. However, to what degree individual transcription factors confer specificity upon the regulation of Bdnf is poorly understood. Previous studies have shown that members of the myocyte enhancer factor 2 (MEF2) transcription factor family bind a regulatory element upstream of Bdnf promoter I and associate with an unknown binding site in Bdnf promoter IV. Here we identify calcium-response element 1 as the MEF2 binding site in promoter IV of the Bdnf gene and determine the requirements for individual MEF2 family members in Bdnf regulation. MEF2A, MEF2C, and MEF2D are all highly expressed in embryonic rat cortical neurons; however, only the Mef2c gene encodes an MEF2 splice variant that lacks the γ repressor-domain. We find that MEF2C variants lacking the γ-domain are particularly sensitive to activation by membrane depolarization, raising the possibility that the MEF2s may differentially contribute to activity-regulated gene expression. We find that only knockdown of MEF2C significantly impairs membrane depolarization-induced expression of Bdnf exon IV. By contrast, knockdown of MEF2D significantly enhanced depolarization-induced expression of Bdnf exon I. Together, these data show that individual members of the MEF2 family of transcription factors differentially regulate the expression of Bdnf, revealing a new mechanism that may confer specificity on the induction of this biologically important gene.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.