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ArticleScientific reports2017

CREB Regulates Distinct Adaptive Transcriptional Programs in Astrocytes and Neurons.

Luis Pardo, Luis Miguel Valor, Abel Eraso-Pichot, Angel Barco, Arantxa Golbano, Giles E Hardingham, Roser Masgrau, Elena Galea

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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33citing papers in PubMed
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33 citing papers in PubMed, 53 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Luis PardoInstitut de Neurociències and Unitat de Bioquímica, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193, Barcelona, Spain. luis.pardo82@gmail.com.
Luis Miguel ValorUnidad de Investigación, Hospital Universitario Puerta del Mar, Av. Ana de Viya 21, 11009, Cádiz, Spain.
Abel Eraso-PichotInstitut de Neurociències and Unitat de Bioquímica, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193, Barcelona, Spain.
Angel BarcoInstituto de Neurociencias, Universidad Miguel Hernández/Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Sant Joan d'Alacant, 03550, Alicante, Spain.
Arantxa GolbanoInstitut de Neurociències and Unitat de Bioquímica, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193, Barcelona, Spain.
Giles E HardinghamUK Dementia Research Institute at The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Medical School, 47 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, EH16 4TJ, UK.
Roser MasgrauInstitut de Neurociències and Unitat de Bioquímica, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193, Barcelona, Spain.
Elena GaleaInstitut de Neurociències and Unitat de Bioquímica, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, 08193, Barcelona, Spain. Elena.Galea@uab.es.
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona · ESHospital Universitario Puerta del Mar · ESInstitució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats · ESInstituto de Neurociencias · ESUK Dementia Research Institute · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council G0902044
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The cyclic AMP response element binding protein (CREB) is a primary hub of activity-driven genetic programs in neurons controlling plasticity, neurogenesis and survival. By contrast, the gene networks coordinated by CREB in astrocytes are unknown despite the fact that the astrocytic CREB is also activity-driven and neuroprotective. Herein we identified the transcriptional programs regulated by CREB in astrocytes as compared to neurons using, as study materials, transcriptome databases of astrocyte exposed to well-known activators of CREB-dependent transcription as well as publicly available transcriptomes of neuronal cultures. Functional CREB signatures were extracted from the transcriptomes using Gene Ontology, adult-brain gene lists generated by Translating Ribosome Affinity Purification (TRAP) and CREB-target gene repositories. We found minimal overlap between CREB signatures in astrocytes and neurons. In astrocytes, the top triad of functions regulated by CREB consists of 'Gene expression', 'Mitochondria', and 'Signalling', while in neurons it is 'Neurotransmission', 'Signalling' and 'Gene expression', the latter two being represented by different genes from those in astrocytes. The newly generated databases will provide a tool to explore novel means whereby CREB impinges on brain functions requiring adaptive, long-lasting changes by coordinating transcriptional cascades in astrocytes.

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Gene Regulatory NetworksAnimalsAstrocytesCells, CulturedCyclic AMP Response Element-Binding ProteinDatabases, GeneticGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression RegulationNeuronsOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisOrgan SpecificityRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyTranscription, GeneticCREB1 protein, humanCyclic AMP Response Element-Binding Protein

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PMID28743894
PMCPMC5526874
OpenAlexW2737695031

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