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In maturing postnatal cerebellar granule cells, the Etv1/Er81 transcription factor is induced by sequential activity-dependent mechanisms through stimulation of AMPA and NMDA receptors, voltage-dependent Nav1.2 Na(+) channels, and voltage-dependent Ca(2+) channels. Etv1 then up-regulates a battery of maturation genes involved in the cerebellar circuitry. In this process, BDNF is also induced and participates in the up-regulation of these maturation genes. Using cultures of granule cells, we addressed how the activity-dependent and BDNF signaling mechanisms converge on the regulation of the representative NR2C NMDA receptor and Tiam1 maturation genes. BDNF up-regulated both the NR2C and Tiam1 genes via the TrkB-Erk cascade and this up-regulation was blocked not only by inhibition of the activity-dependent signaling mechanisms but also by suppression of Etv1 expression with Etv1 siRNA. Importantly, Etv1 was selectively phosphorylated by Erk1/2 in the BDNF signaling cascade, and the inhibition of this phosphorylation abrogated the BDNF-induced up-regulation of the NR2C and Tiam1 genes. The luciferase reporter assays in combination with mutations of MEK and Etv1 indicated that the Erk-mediated, phosphorylated Etv1 interacted with the Ets motifs of the NR2C promoter sequence and that phosphorylation at both serine 94 and a cluster of threonines and a serine (Thr139, Thr143, and Ser146) of Etv1 was indispensable for the BDNF-mediated activation of the NR2C promoter activity. This study demonstrates that the NR2C and Tiam1 maturation genes are synergistically controlled by the activity-dependent induction of Etv1 and its phosphorylation by the BDNF signaling cascade.

Gene regulation via excitation and BDNF is mediated by induction and phosphorylation of the Etv1 transcription factor in cerebellar granule cells