“…NGF interacts with two entirely distinct groups of receptors (Rodrigueztebar et al, 1990;Frade and Barde, 1998): p75 neurotrophin receptor (p75NTR), a low-affinity receptor that has a similar affinity to each of the neurotrophins; and TrkA, a member of the Trk family of receptor tyrosine kinases, which binds selectively to NGF (Reichardt, 2006). NGF binding activates the kinase domain of TrkA, leading to autophosphorylation (Gryz and Meakin, 2000). The resulting phosphotyrosines become docking sites for adaptor proteins involved in signal transduction pathways that lead to the activation of Ras, Rac, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3-K), phospholipase C-γ (PLC-γ) and other effectors (Kaplan and Miller, 2000;Huang and Reichardt, 2003).…”