A Highly Complex, MHC-Linked, 350 Million-Year-Old Shark Nonclassical Class I Lineage.
J Immunol
; 207(3): 824-836, 2021 08 01.
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ABSTRACT
Cartilaginous fish, or Chondrichthyes, are the oldest extant vertebrates to possess the MHC and the Ig superfamily-based Ag receptors, the defining genes of the gnathostome adaptive immune system. In this work, we have identified a novel MHC lineage, UEA, a complex multigene nonclassical class I family found in sharks (division Selachii) but not detected in chimaeras (subclass Holocephali) or rays (division Batoidea). This new lineage is distantly related to the previously reported nonclassical class I lineage UCA, which appears to be present only in dogfish sharks (order Squaliformes). UEA lacks conservation of the nine invariant residues in the peptide (ligand)-binding regions (PBR) that bind to the N and C termini of bound peptide in most vertebrate classical class I proteins, which are replaced by relatively hydrophobic residues compared with the classical UAA. In fact, UEA and UCA proteins have the most hydrophobic-predicted PBR of all identified chondrichthyan class I molecules. UEA genes detected in the whale shark and bamboo shark genome projects are MHC linked. Consistent with UEA comprising a very large gene family, we detected weak expression in different tissues of the nurse shark via Northern blotting and RNA sequencing. UEA genes fall into three sublineages with unique characteristics in the PBR. UEA shares structural and genetic features with certain nonclassical class I genes in other vertebrates, such as the highly complex XNC nonclassical class I genes in Xenopus, and we anticipate that each shark gene, or at least each sublineage, will have a unique function, perhaps in bacterial defense.
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Tiburones
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Genes MHC Clase I
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
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Animals
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En
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J Immunol
Año:
2021
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Article
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Portugal