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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 282, Issue 51, 37170-37180, December 21, 2007

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Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2 Opposes Shh-mediated Proliferation in Cerebellar Granule Cells through a TIEG-1-based Regulation of Nmyc^*

From the Department of Cell Death and Proliferation, Institute for Biomedical Research of Barcelona, IIBB-CSIC-IDIBAPS, 08036 Barcelona, Spain

Nmyc is a potent regulator of cell cycle in cerebellar granular neuron precursors (CGNPs) and has been proposed to be the main effector of Shh (Sonic hedgehog) proliferative activity. Nmyc ectopic expression is sufficient to promote cell autonomous proliferation and can lead to tumorigenesis. Bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP2) antagonizes Shh proliferative effect by promoting cell cycle exit and differentiation in CGNPs. Here we report that BMP2 opposes Shh mitogenic activity by blocking Nmyc expression. We have identified TIEG-1 (KLF10) as the intermediary factor that blocks Nmyc expression through the occupancy of the Sp1 sites present in its promoter. We also demonstrate that TIEG-1 ectopic expression in CGNPs induces cell cycle arrest that can lead to apoptosis but fails to promote differentiation. Moreover, TIEG-1 synergizes with BMP2 activity to terminally differentiate CGNPs and independent differentiator signals such as dibutyryl cAMP and prevents apoptosis in TIEG-1 arrested cells. All together, these data strongly suggest that the BMP2 pathway triggers cell cycle exit and differentiation as two separated but coordinated processes, where TIEG-1 acts as a mediator of the cell cycle arrest.

Received for publication, July 2, 2007 , and in revised form, October 16, 2007.

^* This work was supported by Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia Grant BFU2005-01599. The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

The on-line version of this article (available at http://www.jbc.org) contains supplemental Figs. S1 and S2.

¹ To whom correspondence should be addressed: Institute for Biomedical Research of Barcelona, IIBB-CSIC-IDIBAPS, Roselló 161 6th Fl., 08036 Barcelona, Spain. Tel.: 34933632382; Fax: 34933638301; E-mail: spfnqi{at}iibb.csic.es.

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